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  • Germaine Greer Perhaps catastrophe is the natural human environment, and even though we spend a good deal of energy trying to get away from it, we are programmed for survival amid catastrophe.
    Germaine Greer
    Australian writer and public intellectual (1939 - )
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  • Isadora Duncan Perhaps he was a bit different from other people, but what really sympathetic person is not a little mad?
    Isadora Duncan
    American Dancer (1877 - 1927)
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  • George Eliot Perhaps his might be one of the natures where a wise estimate of consequences is fused in the fires of that passionate belief which determines the consequences it believes in.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Stephen Vizinczey Perhaps in a book review it is not out of place to note that the safety of the state depends on cultivating the imagination.
    Stephen Vizinczey
    Hungarian writer and critic (1933 - 2021)
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  • Andre Norton Perhaps it is because cats do not live by human patterns, do not fit themselves into prescribed behavior, that they are so united to creative people.
    Andre Norton
    American writer of science fiction (1912 - 2005)
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  • Winston Churchill Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Wallace Stevens Perhaps it is of more value to infuriate philosophers than to go along with them.
    Wallace Stevens
    American poet (1879 - 1955)
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  • Cary Fowler Perhaps it matters little whether the international community chooses to celebrate crop diversity, but it profoundly matters that the international community takes action to conserve it.
    Cary Fowler
    American agriculturalist and businessman (1949 - )
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  • Aldous Huxley Perhaps it's good for one to suffer. Can an artist do anything if he's happy? Would he ever want to do anything? What is art, after all, but a protest against the horrible inclemency of life?
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Joseph Conrad Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.
    Joseph Conrad
    In Poland born English writer (1857 - 1924)
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  • Samuel Johnson Perhaps man is the only being that can properly be called idle.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Iris Murdoch Perhaps misguided moral passion is better than confused indifference.
    Iris Murdoch
    Anglo-Irish novelist and philosopher (1919 - 1999)
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  • Bill Forsyth Perhaps naively I thought people understand what humor was, that it was invented by the human race to cope with the dark areas of life, problems and terrors.
    Bill Forsyth
    Scottish film director and writer (1946 - )
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  • Eleanor Roosevelt Perhaps nature is our best assurance of immortality.
    Eleanor Roosevelt
    American "First Lady" and columnist (1884 - 1962)
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  • Gene Fowler Perhaps no mightier conflict of mind occurs ever again in a lifetime than that first decision to unseat one's own tooth.
    Gene Fowler
    American journalist, author and dramatist (1890 - 1960)
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  • Thomas B. Macaulay Perhaps no person can be a poet, or can even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind.
    Thomas B. Macaulay
    American essayist and historian (1800 - 1859)
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  • Charles Dudley Warner Perhaps nobody ever accomplishes all that he feels lies in him to do; but nearly every one who tries his power touches the walls of his being.
    Charles Dudley Warner
    American writer (1829 - 1900)
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  • Kate Millet Perhaps nothing is so depressing an index of the inhumanity of the male-supremacist mentality as the fact that the more genial human traits are assigned to the underclass: affection, response to sympathy, kindness, cheerfulness.
    Kate Millet
    American writer (1934 - 2017)
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  • Virgil Perhaps one day this too will be pleasant to remember.
    Virgil
    Roman poet (70 - 19)
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  • Pearl S. Buck Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked.
    Pearl S. Buck
    American novelist (1892 - 1973)
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