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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero What one has, one ought to use: and whatever he does he should do with all his might.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Carolyn Chute What poor people go through, it's amazing they don't do more violent things! If they'd just give you a little dignity, it might help you stand it better. They suffer no heat, no electricity, while you're working, but then you've got to face all the insults, too.
    Carolyn Chute
    American writer and populist
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  • George Eliot What quarrel, what harshness, what unbelief in each other can subsist in the presence of a great calamity, when all the artificial vesture of our life is gone, and we are all one with each other in primitive mortal needs?
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Hannah Arendt What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations... is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of being able to change things by one's own efforts.
    Hannah Arendt
    German-born American political theorist (1906 - 1975)
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  • Aldous Huxley What the rest of us see only under the influence of mescalin, the artist is congenitally equipped to see all the time.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Bertolt Brecht What they could do with round here is a good war. What else can you expect with peace running wild all over the place? You know what the trouble with peace is? No organization.
    Source: Mother Courage and Her Children The Sergeant, in Scene 1
    Bertolt Brecht
    German - Austrian writer (1898 - 1956)
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  • Alexander Graham Bell What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.
    Alexander Graham Bell
    Scottish-born scientist, inventor, engineer, and innovator (1847 - 1922)
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  • Brooke Shields What Tupperware has stood for all these years is the independence of women, allowing women to work from home, earn a living - and that what this Boys & Girls Clubs of America program, the SMART Girls program, is about.
    Brooke Shields
    American actress and model (1965 - )
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  • Ben Gibbard What we aspired to in 1998, we have wildly surpassed. And I know we all feel incredibly grateful and lucky this band has been able to have the life that it's had.
    Ben Gibbard
    American singer, songwriter and guitarist (1976 - )
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  • Thomas Carlyle What we become depends on what we read after all the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is the collection of books.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Stephen Leacock What we call creative work, ought not to be called work at all, because it isn't. I imagine that Thomas Edison never did a day's work in his last fifty years.
    Stephen Leacock
    Canadian humorist and economist (1869 - 1944)
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  • Bill Clinton What we have to do now is not to forget these people and places when all the cameras are not there. I think that's the most important message I can say to the American people right now.
    Bill Clinton
    President of the US (1946 - )
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  • Ben Carson What we have to stop and think about is that we have weakened ourselves militarily to such an extent that it affects all of our military policies.
    Ben Carson
    American politician, and author (1951 - )
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  • Anita Hill What we really need to be understanding is that all of these things matter and they all stem from the fact that certain people live with power and authority and they want to maintain it.
    Anita Hill
    American lawyer and academic (1956 - )
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  • Arthur Laffer What we're talking about is the price of goods, all goods, in terms of money. That has nothing to do with unemployment, except for the fact that you get fewer goods. And when you have more money and fewer goods, the amount of dollars per good goes up. It goes up because there are fewer goods and it goes up because there is more money.
    Arthur Laffer
    American economist and author (1940 - )
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  • Nora Ephron What will happen to sex after liberation? Frankly, I don't know. It is a great mystery to all of us.
    Nora Ephron
    American journalist, writer, and filmmaker (1941 - 2012)
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  • John Milton What wisdom can there be to choose, what continence to forbear without the knowledge of evil? He that can apprehend and consider vice with all her baits and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true wayfaring Christian.
    John Milton
    English poet, polemicist and man of letters (1608 - 1674)
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  • Aldous Huxley What with making their way and enjoying what they have won, heroes have no time to think. But the sons of heroes -ah, they have all the necessary leisure.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Barbara Kingsolver What you lose in blindness is the space around you, the place where you are, and without that you might not exist. You could be nowhere at all.
    Barbara Kingsolver
    American novelist, essayist and poet (1955 - )
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  • Don DeLillo What you see is not what we see. What you see is distracted by memory, by being who you are, all this time, for all these years.
    Source: Falling Man (2011) 73
    Don DeLillo
    American Author (1936 - )
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