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  • Adam Weishaupt And of all illumination which human reason can give, none is comparable to the discovery of what we are, our nature, our obligations, what happiness we are capable of, and what are the means of attaining it.
    Adam Weishaupt
    German philosopher (1748 - 1830)
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  • Daniel Defoe And of all plagues with which mankind are cursed, ecclesiastic tyranny's the worst.
    Daniel Defoe
    English writer (1660 - 1731)
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  • Berenice Marlohe And Shanghai is amazing. I'm a fan of science fiction so when you're there in the night with all the lights and all this modernity, it's like a set in a movie.
    Berenice Marlohe
    French actress
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  • Albrecht Durer And since geometry is the right foundation of all painting, I have decided to teach its rudiments and principles to all youngsters eager for art.
    Albrecht Durer
    German painter (1471 - 1528)
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  • John Lennon And so this is Xmas for black and for white, for yellow and red, let's stop all the fight.
    John Lennon
    British musician (1940 - 1980)
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  • Algernon H. Blackwood And so with all things: names were vital and important.
    Algernon H. Blackwood
    English broadcasting narrator, journalist and writer (1869 - 1951)
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  • Oliver Goldsmith And still they gazed, and still the wonder grew, that one small head could carry all he knew.
    Oliver Goldsmith
    Irish writer and poet (1728 - 1774)
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  • Berkeley Breathed And that's why any of my picture books exist: They all seem to be built backwards from a simple, emotionally optimistic story beat.
    Berkeley Breathed
    American cartoonist, director and screenwriter (1957 - )
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  • Bertolt Brecht And the shark he has his teeth and
    There they are for all to see
    And Macheath he has his knife but
    No one knows where it may be.
    The Threepenny Opera The Moritat of Mackie the Knife in Prologue, p. 3
    Bertolt Brecht
    German - Austrian writer (1898 - 1956)
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  • Bill Bailey And the thing is, I'm amazed they went with Obama at all, you know, I mean, I thought Hilary would have been a shoe-in, but no. Apparently America's got an issue with gender, not with race. Huh. So, um...
    Dandelion Mind
    Bill Bailey
    English comedian, musician and actor (1965 - )
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  • Arthur Rock And then lo and behold IBM, Apple and Motorola took an ad in all the newspapers, double page ad, and said, announcing the chip that they were now able to manufacture it and that they were going to kill Intel.
    Arthur Rock
    American businessman and investor (1926 - )
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  • Bruce Catton And there is the headlight, shining far down the track, glinting off the steel rails that, like all parallel lines, will meet in infinity, which is after all where this train is going.
    Bruce Cattons America: selections from his greatest works
    Bruce Catton
    American historian and journalist (1899 - 1978)
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  • Aeschylus And though all streams flow from a single course to cleanse the blood from polluted hand, they hasten on their course in vain.
    Aeschylus
    Greek dramatist (525 - 456)
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  • Anne Boleyn And thus I take my leave of the world and of you all, and I heartily desire you all to pray for me.
    Anne Boleyn
    English queen, second wife of Hendruk VIII
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  • Bill Bruford And we'd drink huge amounts of scotch and coke, which is a ghastly sweet drink... And now people don't drink nearly as much, for good reason. We're all a little wiser.
    Bill Bruford
    English drummer, composer and producer (1949 - )
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  • Brian De Palma And we've become very doubtful of our information sources, because they're all controlled by these huge multilateral corporations.
    Brian De Palma
    American film director and screenwriter (1940 - )
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  • Henry Miller And what is the potential man, after all? Is he not the sum of all that is human? Divine, in other words?
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • Auberon Herbert And what sort of philosophical doctrine is thi - that numbers confer unlimited rights, that they take from some persons all rights over themselves, and vest these rights in others.
    Auberon Herbert
    British writer, theorist, philosopher
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  • Bernard Cornwell And yes, there's a simplicity to writing books because you're not a member of a team, so you make all the decisions yourself instead of deferring to a committee.
    Bernard Cornwell
    British author of historical novels (1944 - )
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  • Alexander Pope And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but the truth in a masquerade.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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