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  • Susan Sontag Ours is a culture based on excess, on overproduction; the result is a steady loss of sharpness in our sensory experience. All the conditions of modern life - its material plenitude, its sheer crowdedness - conjoin to dull our sensory faculties.
    Susan Sontag
    American writer, filmmaker, teacher, and political activist (1933 - 2004)
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  • Bhagavad Gita Out of compassion I destroy the darkness of their ignorance. From within them I light the lamp of wisdom and dispel all darkness from their lives.
    Bhagavad Gita
    Indian Hindu storybook
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  • Callum Keith Rennie Painting puts me into an alpha state. It's a private event. I make all the decisions in the process and never have to deal with the outside world.
    Callum Keith Rennie
    British-born Canadian actor (1960 - )
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  • Edmund Burke Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • Carrie Fisher People are still asking me if I knew Star Wars was going to be that big of a hit. Yes, we all knew. The only one who didn't know was George.
    Carrie Fisher
    American actress, writer and comedienne (1956 - 2016)
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  • Russell Baker People who say you're just as old as you feel are all wrong, fortunately.
    Russell Baker
    American journalist (1925 - )
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  • Ben Stein Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achievement in real life grows.
    Ben Stein
    American professor, writer
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  • Henry David Thoreau Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • O. S. Hawkins Real Christianity is lovely. There is a quality about a Spirit-filled, radiant Christian that draws and attracts others and causes them to ''enjoy favor with all the people.'' The truth is that the gospel is not nearly as offensive as some of its proponents!
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  • Carl Sagan Some racists still reject the plain testimony written in the DNA that all the races are not only human but nearly indistinguishable.
    Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark (2011) 467
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Cato the Elder Speech is the gift of all, but the thought of few.
    Cato the Elder
    Roman senator and historian (234 - 149)
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  • Michael Korda Success on any major scale requires you to accept responsibility. In the final analysis, the only quality that all successful people have is the ability to take on responsibility.
    Michael Korda
    American publisher (1933 - )
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  • Bernard M. Baruch The ability to express an idea is well nigh as important as the idea itself.
    Bernard M. Baruch
    American investor, philanthropist, statesman, and political consultant (1870 - 1965)
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  • G.W.F. Hegel The East knew and to the present day knows only that One is Free; the Greek and the Roman world, that some are free; the German World knows that All are free. The first political form therefore which we observe in History, is Despotism, the second Democracy and Aristocracy, the third, Monarchy.
    G.W.F. Hegel
    German philosopher (1770 - 1831)
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  • Alfred Adler The educator must believe in the potential power of his pupil, and he must employ all his art in seeking to bring his pupil to experience this power.
    Alfred Adler
    Austrian psychiatrist (1870 - 1937)
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  • Nelson Boswell The first and most important step toward success is the feeling that we can succeed.
    Nelson Boswell
    American author
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  • Ben Carson The government is supposed to conform to our will. By taking the most important thing you have, your health and your health care, and turning that over to the government, you fundamentally shift the power, a huge chunk of it, from the people to the government. This is not the direction that we want the government to go in this nation.
    Ben Carson
    American politician, and author (1951 - )
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  • John Ruskin The great cry that rises from all our manufacturing cities, louder than the furnace blast, is all in very deed for this - that we manufacture everything there except men.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • David Herbert Lawrence The great living experience for every man is his adventure into the woman. The man embraces in the woman all that is not himself, and from that one resultant, from that embrace, comes every new action.
    David Herbert Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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  • Anne Perry The great question, is there anything at all which is worth fighting such a war about, with the devastating loss it will bring? I believe yes, there are some freedoms which to sacrifice would be EVEN worse.
    Anne Perry
    English author (1938 - )
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