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  • Marilyn Ferguson Of all the self-fulfilling prophecies in our culture, the assumption that aging means decline and poor health is probably the deadliest.
    Marilyn Ferguson
    American author, editor and public speaker (1938 - 2008)
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  • Remy de Gourmont Of all the sexual aberrations, perhaps the most peculiar is chastity.
    Remy de Gourmont
    French writer, poet and philosopher (1858 - 1915)
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  • Butch Trucks Of all the songs we played, 'Statesboro Blues' was the most ripped-off.
    Butch Trucks
    American musician (1947 - 2017)
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  • John Ruskin Of all the things that oppress me, this sense of the evil working of nature herself - my disgust at her barbarity -clumsiness - darkness - bitter mockery of herself - is the most desolating.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Aristotle Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Anna Garlin Spencer Of all the wastes of human ignorance perhaps the most extravagant and costly to human growth has been the waste of the distinctive powers of womanhood after the child-bearing age.
    Anna Garlin Spencer
    American educator and feminist (1851 - 1931)
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  • Walter Benjamin Of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded as the most praiseworthy method. Writers are really people who write books not because they are poor, but because they are dissatisfied with the books which they could buy but do not like.
    Walter Benjamin
    German philosopher (1892 - 1940)
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  • Woody Allen Of all the wonders of nature, a tree in summer is perhaps the most remarkable; with the possible exception of a moose singing ''Embraceable You'' in spats.
    Woody Allen
    American movie director and actor (1935 - )
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  • William Shakespeare Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, it seems to me most strange that men should fear.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Bertolt Brecht Of all the works of man I like best
    Those which have been used.
    The copper pots with their dents and flattened edges
    The knives and forks whose wooden handles
    Have been worn away by many hands: such forms
    Seemed to me the noblest.
    Source: Poems, 1913-1956 Of all the works of man [Von allen Werken] (c. 193
    Bertolt Brecht
    German - Austrian writer (1898 - 1956)
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  • Euripides Of all things upon earth that bleed and grow, a herb most bruised is woman.
    Euripides
    Greek tragedian and poet (480 - 406)
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  • C. S. Lewis Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.
    Source: A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • C. S. Lewis Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Sir Walter Scott Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.
    Sir Walter Scott
    British writer and poet (1771 - 1832)
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  • Bryce Dallas Howard Of course any kind of film process has ups and downs and days where you're stuck and have breakthroughs.
    Bryce Dallas Howard
    American actress and filmmaker (1981 - )
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  • Bruce Eric Kaplan Of course I loved 'I Love Lucy' and saw every episode over and over again. I found it heartbreaking that Ricky got to be famous and have an exciting life at the Tropicana while Lucy was stuck in that terrible apartment with the Mertzes.
    Bruce Eric Kaplan
    American cartoonist
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  • Ben Shahn Of course I realize that photography is not the technical facility as much as it is the eye, and this decision that one makes for the moment at which you are going to snap, you know.
    Ben Shahn
    Lithuanian-born American artist (1898 - 1969)
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  • Bobby Davro Of course it was difficult accepting the change in TV trends. It all ended quite early for me. I was in my mid-30s, and I hadn't achieved everything I wanted. There's nothing on TV for people like me anymore. All they want are new young faces.
    Bobby Davro
    English actor and comedian (1958 - )
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  • Thomas Hardy Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them.
    Thomas Hardy
    British writer and poet (1840 - 1928)
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  • Bernard Cornwell Of course some days are easier than others, but my worst day is better than being in most humdrum occupations.
    Bernard Cornwell
    British author of historical novels (1944 - )
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