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  • Rainer Maria Rilke This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more they possess.
    Rainer Maria Rilke
    German poet (1875 - 1926)
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  • Aristotle This is the reason why mothers are more devoted to their children than fathers: it is that they suffer more in giving them birth and are more certain that they are their own.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Carl Sagan This planet is run by crazy people. Remember what they have to do to get where they are. Their perspective is so narrow, so...brief. A few years. In the best of them a few decades. They care only about the time they are in power.
    Source: Contact (1985) Ch. 23 (p. 403)
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Elizabeth Barrett Browning This race is never grateful: from the first, One fills their cup at supper with pure wine, Which back they give at cross-time on a sponge, In bitter vinegar.
    Elizabeth Barrett Browning
    English poet (1806 - 1861)
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  • Doris Lessing This world is run by people who know how to do things. They know how things work. They are equipped. Up there, there's a layer of people who run everything. But we -we're just peasants. We don't understand what's going on, and we can't do anything.
    Doris Lessing
    British novelist (1919 - 2013)
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  • Earl Wilson This would be a much better world if more married couples were as deeply in love as they are in debt.
    Earl Wilson
    American columnist (1907 - 1987)
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  • Carl Sagan Those afraid of the universe as it really is, those who pretend to nonexistent knowledge and envision a Cosmos centered on human beings will prefer the fleeting comforts of superstition. They avoid rather than confront the world. But those with the courage to explore the weave and structure of the Cosmos, even where it differs profoundly from their wishes and prejudices, will penetrate its deepest mysteries.
    Source: Cosmos (1980)
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Bill Hicks Those guys were in hog heaven, man. They had a weapons catalog, What's G-12 do, Tommy? Says here it destroys everything but the fillings in their teeth, helps pay for the war effort. Well, shit, pull that one up! Pull up G-12, please. ] ...Cool. What's G-13 do?
    Source: Relentless
    Bill Hicks
    American stand-up comedian, social critic, satirist and musician (1961 - 1994)
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  • Eric Hoffer Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Henry Thomas Buckle Those minute critics who seem to think that when they detect the occasional errors of a great man, they in some degree reduce him to their own level.
    Source: History of civilization II, 314
    Henry Thomas Buckle
    English historian (1821 - 1862)
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  • Arthur Henderson Those nations have a very great responsibility at this juncture of the world's affairs, for by throwing their joint weight into the scales of history on the right side, they may tip the balance decisively in favour of peace.
    Arthur Henderson
    British Labour politician
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  • Cate Blanchett Those of us in the industry who are still foolishly clinging to the idea that female films with women at the center are niche experiences - they are not. Audiences want to see them and, in fact, they earn money. The world is round, people.
    Cate Blanchett
    Australian actress and theatre (1969 - )
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  • Brian Tracy Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.
    Brian Tracy
    Canadian-American motivational public speaker and self-development aut (1944 - )
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  • Bhagat Singh Those revolutionaries who have, by chance, escaped the gallows should live and show to the world that they cannot only embrace gallows for the ideal but also bear the worst type of tortures in the dark, dingy prison cells.
    Bhagat Singh
    Indian socialist revolutionary (1907 - 1931)
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  • Bob Geldof Those songs are about getting out; they're not about getting out of family. It wasn't about how family life was curtailing because I didn't know family life.
    Bob Geldof
    Irish singer-songwriter, author, political activist (1951 - )
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  • Ben E. King Those things don't happen today. I feel sorry for the kids in the industry today. They have on sunglasses, eat caviar in jet planes, but they'll never know the true feeling that we did.
    Ben E. King
    American soul and R&B singer (1938 - 2015)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton Those thinkers who cannot believe in any gods often assert that the love of humanity would be in itself sufficient for them; and so, perhaps, it would, if they had it.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Aldous Huxley Those who believe that they are exclusively in the right are generally those who achieve something.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Seneca Those who boast of their decent, brag on what they owe to others.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Those who cannot tell what they desire or expect, still sigh and struggle with indefinite thoughts and vast wishes.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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