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  • Samuel Johnson Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those who we cannot resemble.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • John Cowper Powys Ambition is the grand enemy of all peace.
    The meaning of culture
    John Cowper Powys
    British writer, philosopher and poet (1872 - 1963)
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  • Barack Obama America and Islam are not exclusive and need not be in competition. Instead, they overlap, and share common principles of justice and progress, tolerance and the dignity of all human beings.
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Camille Paglia American feminism's nose dive began when Kate Millet, that imploding beanbag of poisonous self-pity, declared Freud a sexist. Trying to build a sex theory without studying Freud, women have made nothing but mud pies.
    Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Socrates An education obtained with money is worse than no education at all
    Socrates
    Greek philosopher (469 - 399)
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  • John Ruskin An infinitude of tenderness is the chief gift and inheritance of all truly great men.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Isadora Duncan Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences.
    Isadora Duncan
    American Dancer (1877 - 1927)
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  • James Baldwin Any real change implies the breakup of the world as one has always known it, the loss of all that gave one an identity, the end of safety.
    Nobody Knows My Name (1961)
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • André Malraux Art is a revolt against fate. All art is a revolt against man's fate.
    André Malraux
    French writer and politician (ps. by A. Berger) (1901 - 1976)
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  • James Thurber Art, the one achievement of Man which has made the long trip up from all fours seem well advised.
    James Thurber
    American cartoonist (1894 - 1961)
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  • Guillaume Apollinaire Artists are, above all, men who want to become inhuman.
    Guillaume Apollinaire
    Italian-born French poet, critic (1880 - 1918)
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  • Bill Gates At Microsoft there are lots of brilliant ideas but the image is that they all come from the top - I'm afraid that's not quite right.
    Interview published in BBC (website): news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/club/your_reports/newsid_1697000/1697132.stm
    Bill Gates
    American business magnate, investor, author and philanthropist (1955 - )
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  • Brendan Francis At the innermost core of all loneliness is a deep and powerful yearning for union with one's lost self.
    Brendan Francis
    Irish poet and writer (1923 - 1964)
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  • Henry David Thoreau At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable, that land and sea be infinitely wild, unsurveyed and unfathomed by us because unfathomable.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Abbie Hoffman Avoid all needle drugs, the only dope worth shooting is Richard Nixon.
    Abbie Hoffman
    American political and social activist (1936 - 1989)
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  • Jean de la Fontaine Be advised that all flatterers live at the expense of those who listen to them.
    Jean de la Fontaine
    French writer (1621 - 1695)
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  • George Washington Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.
    George Washington
    First president of the US (1732 - 1799)
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  • St. Teresa of Avila Be gentle to all, and stern with yourself.
    St. Teresa of Avila
    Spanish saint, mystic (1515 - 1582)
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  • Jean-Luc Godard Beauty is composed of an eternal, invariable element whose quantity is extremely difficult to determine, and a relative element which might be, either by turns or all at once, period, fashion, moral, passion.
    Jean-Luc Godard
    French film director (1930 - 2022)
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  • Malcolm Forbes Being right half the time beats being half-right all the time.
    Malcolm Forbes
    American businessman and publisher (Forbes Magazine) (1919 - 1990)
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