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  • Elizabeth Bowen The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends. The friend becomes a traitor by breaking, however unwillingly or sadly, out of our own zone: a hard judgment is passed on him, for all the pleas of the heart.
    Elizabeth Bowen
    Anglo-Irish Novelist (1899 - 1973)
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  • Al Gore The heart of the security agenda is protecting lives - and we now know that the number of people who will die of AIDS in the first decade of the 21st Century will rival the number that died in all the wars in all the decades of the 20th century.
    Al Gore
    American politician and environmentalist (1948 - )
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  • Vladimir Ilyich Lenin The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.
    Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
    Russian revolutionary leader (1870 - 1924)
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  • Richard Cecil The history of all the great characters of the Bible is summed up in this one sentence: They acquainted themselves with God, and acquiesced His will in all things.
    Richard Cecil
    British Evangelical Anglican priest (1748 - 1810)
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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The holiest of all holidays are those
    Kept by ourselves in silence and apart;
    The secret anniversaries of the heart,
    Holidays
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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  • C. L. R. James The home stands in contrast to all other capitalist institutions as the last stronghold of pre-capitalist isolation.
    C. L. R. James
    Trinidadian historian, journalist and socialist (1901 - 1989)
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  • Charles Péguy The honest man must be a perpetual renegade, the life of an honest man a perpetual infidelity. For the man who wishes to remain faithful must take himself perpetually unfaithful to all the continual, successive, indefatigable, renascent errors.
    Charles Péguy
    French writer and poet (1873 - 1914)
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  • Marquis de Sade The horror of wedlock, the most appalling, the most loathsome of all the bonds humankind has devised for its own discomfort and degradation.
    Marquis de Sade
    French aristocrat, writer, politician and philosopher (1740 - 1814)
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  • Martin Luther The human heart is like a ship on a stormy sea driven about by winds blowing from all four corners of heaven.
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  • Arvo Part The human voice is the most perfect instrument of all.
    Arvo Part
    Estonian composer
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  • William Jennings Bryan The humblest citizen of all the land when clad in the armor of a righteous cause, is stronger than all the hosts of Error.
    William Jennings Bryan
    American orator and politician (1860 - 1925)
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  • Bernard Crick The idea of a rational bureaucracy, of skill, merit, and consistency, is essential to all modern states.
    In Defence Of Politics Ch. 7, In Praise Of Politics, p. 143
    Bernard Crick
    British political theorist (1929 - 2008)
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  • Benjamin Mkapa The idea of African brotherhood is often just a cover-up for laziness. We must see what is achievable in our circumstances and evaluate all decisions. In terms of regional economic integration, sentimentality is not enough. We really have to be frank and honest.
    September 1999
    Benjamin Mkapa
    Tanzanian politician (1938 - 2020)
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  • Elbert Hubbard The idea that is not dangerous is not worthy of being called an idea at all.
    Elbert Hubbard
    American writer and publisher (1856 - 1915)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken The idea that leisure is of value in itself is only conditionally true. The average man simply spends his leisure as a dog spends it. His recreations are all puerile, and the time supposed to benefit him really only stupefies him.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Arthur Conan Doyle The ideal reasoner, he remarked, would, when he had once been shown a single fact in all its bearings, deduce from it not only all the chain of events which led up to it but also all the results which would follow from it.
    Arthur Conan Doyle
    British writer and medical doctor (1859 - 1930)
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  • Susan Sontag The ideology of capitalism makes us all into connoisseurs of liberty - of the indefinite expansion of possibility.
    Susan Sontag
    American writer, filmmaker, teacher, and political activist (1933 - 2004)
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  • William S. Gilbert The idiot who praises, with enthusiastic tone, All centuries but this, and every country but his own.
    William S. Gilbert
    English dramatist, poet and illustrator (1836 - 1911)
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  • John F. Kennedy The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all.
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • Napoleon Hill The imagination is literally the workshop wherein are fashioned all plans created by man.
    Napoleon Hill
    American self-help author (1883 - 1970)
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