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  • Ban Ki-moon Climate change, demographics, water, food, energy, global health, women's empowerment - these issues are all intertwined. We cannot look at one strand in isolation. Instead, we must examine how these strands are woven together.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • John Milton Come, pensive nun, devout and pure, sober steadfast, and demure, all in a robe of darkest grain, flowing with majestic train.
    John Milton
    English poet, polemicist and man of letters (1608 - 1674)
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  • Bob Ney Common sense solutions to lowering your gasoline bills can go far. Carpooling, taking fewer or shorter road trips, and ensuring that your tires are fully inflated can all help stop the pinch at the pump.
    Bob Ney
    American politician (1954 - )
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  • Albert Einstein Concern for man and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • A. J. P. Taylor Conformity may give you a quiet life; it may even bring you to a University Chair. But all change in history, all advance, comes from the nonconformists. If there had been no trouble-makers, no Dissenters, we should still be living in caves.
    A. J. P. Taylor
    British historian (1906 - 1990)
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  • Benjamin Franklin Constant complaint is the poorest sort of pay for all the comforts we enjoy.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for competitors.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Courage charms us, because it indicates that a man loves an idea better than all things in the world, that he is thinking neither of his bed, nor his dinner, nor his money, but will venture all to put in act the invisible thought of his mind.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Bryce Dallas Howard Creativity is all around us, and some of the funniest, most beautiful, and touching moments happen when you least expect it.
    Bryce Dallas Howard
    American actress and filmmaker (1981 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Criticism should not be querulous and wasting, all knife and root-puller, but guiding, instructive, inspiring.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Berthold Auerbach Discontent is the source of all trouble, but also of all progress in individuals and in nations.
    Berthold Auerbach
    German-Jewish writer and poet (1812 - 1882)
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  • Charles Caleb Colton Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Albert Pike Doubt, the essential preliminary of all improvement and discovery, must accompany the stages of man's onward progress. The faculty of doubting and questioning, without which those of comparison and judgment would be useless, is itself a divine prerogative of the reason.
    Albert Pike
    American attorney, soldier, writer, and Freemason (1809 - 1891)
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  • Benjamin Franklin Energy and persistence alter all things.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Envy is the tax which all distinction must pay.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Joseph De Maistre False opinions are like false money, struck first of all by guilty men and thereafter circulated by honest people who perpetuate the crime without knowing what they are doing.
    Joseph De Maistre
    French diplomat and philosopher (1753 - 1821)
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  • Benjamin Disraeli Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • August Strindberg Family... the home of all social evil, a charitable institution for comfortable women, an anchorage for house-fathers, and a hell for children.
    August Strindberg
    Swedish writer (1849 - 1912)
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  • Bette Davis Fasten your seat belts, it's going to be a bumpy night! [As Margo Channing in All About Eve]
    Bette Davis
    American Actress, Producer (1908 - 1989)
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  • Lydia M. Child Flowers have spoken to me more than I can tell in written words. They are the hieroglyphics of angels, loved by all men for the beauty of the character, though few can decipher even fragments of their meaning.
    Lydia M. Child
    American Abolitionist, Writer, Editor (1802 - 1880)
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