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  • Alfred N. Whitehead What is morality in any given time or place? It is what the majority then and there happen to like, and immorality is what they dislike.
    Alfred N. Whitehead
    English philosopher and mathematician (1861 - 1947)
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  • Bryan White What is nice about country music today is that most artists are not trying to do something everybody else is doing. They really are trying to develop their own uniqueness.
    Bryan White
    American country music singer and songwriter (1974 - )
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  • Leonard Cohen What is the appropriate behavior for a man or a woman in the midst of this world, where each person is clinging to his piece of debris? What's the proper salutation between people as they pass each other in this flood?
    Leonard Cohen
    Canadian-born American Musician, Songwriter, Singer (1934 - 2016)
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  • George Bernard Shaw What is wrong with priests and popes is that instead of being apostles and saints, they are nothing but empirics who say ''I know'' instead of ''I am learning,'' and pray for credulity and inertia as wise men pray for skepticism and activity.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Logan Pearsall Smith What joy can the years bring half so sweet as the unhappiness they've taken away?
    Logan Pearsall Smith
    English writer (1865 - 1946)
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  • Bill Goldberg What kind of moron would go to work for half the amount of money, when they could sit at home and collect what's written in a contract?
    Bill Goldberg
    American professional wrestler and actor (1966 - )
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  • Al Yankovic What kind of morons do you have working at newspapers in Austin that would base an entire review of an artist's performance on whether or not they had a good seat?
    Al Yankovic
    American musician (1959 - )
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  • Roy Thompson What makes a hero truly great is that they never despair.
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld What makes lovers never tire of one another is that they talk always about themselves.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Eugène Delacroix What makes men of genius, or rather, what they make, is not new ideas, it is that idea - possessing them - that what has been said has still not been said enough.
    Eugène Delacroix
    French artist (1798 - 1863)
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld What makes us so bitter against people who outwit us is that they think themselves cleverer than we are.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Billy Corgan What most people do is try to find a comfortable persona that they're in alignment with and the public likes and appreciates them for.
    Billy Corgan
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1967 - )
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  • Benoit Mandelbrot What motivates me now are ideas I developed 10, 20 or 30 years ago, and the feeling that these ideas may be lost if I don't push them a little bit further.
    New Scientist interview
    Benoit Mandelbrot
    Polish-born French and American mathematician and polymath (1924 - 2010)
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  • Charles De Montesquieu What orators lack in depth, they make up to you in length.
    Charles De Montesquieu
    French philosopher (1689 - 1755)
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  • C. Wright Mills What ordinary men are directly aware of and what they try to do are bounded by the private orbits in which they live; their visions and their powers are limited.
    C. Wright Mills
    American sociologist (1916 - 1962)
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  • Elbert Hubbard What people need and what they want may be very different.
    Elbert Hubbard
    American writer and publisher (1856 - 1915)
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  • Carolyn Chute What poor people go through, it's amazing they don't do more violent things! If they'd just give you a little dignity, it might help you stand it better. They suffer no heat, no electricity, while you're working, but then you've got to face all the insults, too.
    Carolyn Chute
    American writer and populist
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  • Bjork What probably confuses people is they know a lot about me, but it quite pleases me that there's more they don't know.
    Bjork
    Icelandic singer, songwriter and actress (1965 - )
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  • Sigmund Freud What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books.
    Sigmund Freud
    Austrian psychiatrist (1856 - 1939)
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  • Rex Steven Sikes What stops people in their tracks is a small mental packet of energy. It is called a thought. They think ''I can't.''
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