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  • Boris Sidis The tendency of life is not the preservation of the species, but solely the preservation of each individual organism, as long as it is in existence at all, and is able to carry on its life processes.
    Nervous Ills their Cause and Cure (1922)
    Boris Sidis
    Ukrainian-American psychologist, psychiatrist, and philosopher (1867 - 1923)
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  • Arthur Levitt The tension between centrality, on the one hand, and competition, on the other, is probably the oldest of all market structure issues.
    Arthur Levitt
    American SEC chairman (1931 - )
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  • George Bernard Shaw The test to which all methods of treatment are finally brought is whether they are lucrative to doctors or not.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Gore Vidal The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what is not worth doing at all.
    Gore Vidal
    American writer and criticus (1925 - 2012)
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  • George Santayana The theatre, for all its artifices, depicts life in a sense more truly than history, because the medium has a kindred movement to that of real life, though an artificial setting and form.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • Giuseppe Mazzini The theory of rights enables us to rise and overthrow obstacles, but not to found a strong and lasting accord between all the elements which compose the nation.
    Giuseppe Mazzini
    Italian writer (1805 - 1872)
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  • Adam Smith The theory that can absorb the greatest number of facts, and persist in doing so, generation after generation, through all changes of opinion and detail, is the one that must rule all observation.
    Adam Smith
    Scottish Economist (1723 - 1790)
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  • Aldous Huxley The thin and precarious crust of decency is all that separates any civilization, however impressive, from the hell of anarchy or systematic tyranny.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Baltasar Kormakur The thing about Iceland is that we are trapped there anyway, all of us. We have been trapped there for thousands of years.
    Baltasar Kormakur
    Icelandic actor, theater and film director (1966 - )
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  • Bryan Greenberg The thing about New York is it's like London: you want to go to the boutique places. You can go to the big department stores - Barney's, Bloomingdales and all that stuff - but I like the little stores.
    Bryan Greenberg
    American actor and singer (1978 - )
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  • Bono The thing about The Dubliners is - line'em up, the hardest rock'n'roll bands in the world, AC/DC, Led Zeppelin, The Who, Oasis, Nirvana, U2 - we're all a bunch of girls next to The Dubliners
    quoted on Ronnie Drew (2008)
    Bono
    Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
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  • Beeban Kidron The thing I have come to find astonishing is that people from all political sides routinely say that the Internet has to be the model of free speech and freedom.
    Beeban Kidron
    British filmmaker (1961 - )
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  • William Hazlitt The thing is plain. All that men really understand, is confined to a very small compass; to their daily affairs and experience; to what they have an opportunity to know, and motives to study or practice. The rest is affectation and imposture.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Anne McCaffrey The thing is, emotion - if it's visibly felt by the writer - will go through all the processes it takes to publish a story and still hit the reader right in the gut. But you have to really mean it.
    Anne McCaffrey
    American-Irish writer (1926 - 2011)
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  • Billy Graham The thing that alarms me is that there are so many clergymen who say that the so-called 'new morality' is all right. They say we're living in a new generation; let's be relevant, let's change God's law. Let's say that adultery is all right under certain circumstances; fornication's all right under certain circumstances. If it's 'meaningful.'
    Billy Graham
    American Evangelist (1918 - 2018)
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  • Bryce Dallas Howard The thing that every parent hopes for is that the baby's healthy, I'm healthy. No matter how you feel, that's the most important thing.
    Bryce Dallas Howard
    American actress and filmmaker (1981 - )
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  • Edward Franklin Albee III The thing that makes a creative person is to be creative and that is all there is to it.
    Edward Franklin Albee III
    American playwright (1928 - 2016)
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  • Ben Horowitz The thing that's confusing for investors is that founders don't know how to be CEO. I didn't know how to do the job when I was a CEO. Founder CEOs don't know how to be CEOs, but it doesn't mean they can't learn. The question is... can the founder learn that job and can they tolerate all mistakes they will make doing it?
    Ben Horowitz
    American businessman, investor, blogger, and author (1966 - )
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  • John Lennon The thing the sixties did was to show us the possibilities and the responsibility that we all had. It wasn't the answer. It just gave us a glimpse of the possibility.
    John Lennon
    British musician (1940 - 1980)
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  • Buddha The thought manifests as the word; The word manifests as the deed; The deed develops into habit; And habit hardens into character; So watch the thought and its ways with care, And let it spring from love Born out of concern for all beingsÂ… As the shadow follows the body, As we think, so we become.
    Dhammapada
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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