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  • Agatha Christie The happiness of one man and one woman is the greatest thing in all the world.
    Source: The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1920)
    Agatha Christie
    British writer (1890 - 1976)
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  • Nelson Algren The hard necessity of bringing the judge on the bench down into the dock has been the peculiar responsibility of the writer in all ages of man.
    Nelson Algren
    American writer (1909 - 1981)
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  • Nan Fairbrother The hardest of all is learning to be a well of affection, and not a fountain; to show them we love them not when we feel like it, but when they do.
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  • Charles M. Schwab The hardest struggle of all is to be something different from what the average man is.
    Charles M. Schwab
    American industrialist (1862 - 1939)
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  • Adam Weishaupt The head of every family will be what Abraham was, the patriarch, the priest and the unlettered lord of his family, and Reason will be the code of laws to all mankind.
    Adam Weishaupt
    German philosopher (1748 - 1830)
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  • Benjamin Disraeli The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend.
    Source: Speech of 24 june 1877
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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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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  • Benjamin Franklin The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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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,
    Source: 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.
    Martin Luther
    German preacher (1483 - 1546)
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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.
    Source: 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.
    Source: September 1999
    Benjamin Mkapa
    Tanzanian politician (1938 - 2020)
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