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  • Carolyn Wells A cynic is a man who looks at the world with a monocle in his mind's eye.
    Carolyn Wells
    American writer and poet (1862 - 1942)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Bo Bennett A dead end can never be a one way street; you can always turn around and take another road.
    Bo Bennett
    American author (1972 - )
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  • Peter Marshall A different world cannot be built by indifferent people.
    Peter Marshall
    Scots-American preacher (1902 - 1949)
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  • Robert Benchley A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down.
    Robert Benchley
    American humorist, criticus (1889 - 1945)
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  • Tony Benn A faith is something you die for, a doctrine is something you kill for. There is all the difference in the world.
    Tony Benn
    British Labor politician (1925 - 2014)
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  • Albert Einstein A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Boutros Boutros-Ghali A genocide in Africa has not received the same attention that genocide in Europe or genocide in Turkey or genocide in other part of the world. There is still this kind of basic discrimination against the African people and the African problems.
    Boutros Boutros-Ghali
    Egyptian politician and diplomat (1922 - 2016)
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  • Anna Howard Shaw A gentleman opposed to their enfranchisement once said to me, women have never produced anything of any value to the world. I told him the chief product of the women had been the men, and left it to him to decide whether the product was of any value.
    Anna Howard Shaw
    American activist and leader of the women's suffrage movement (1847 - 1919)
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  • Henry Fielding A good face they say, is a letter of recommendation. O Nature, Nature, why art thou so dishonest, as ever to send men with these false recommendations into the World!
    Henry Fielding
    English writer (1707 - 1754)
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  • Edward Bulwer-Lytton A good heart is better than all the heads in the world.
    Edward Bulwer-Lytton
    English writer and poet (1803 - 1873)
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  • Benjamin Disraeli A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Billy Campbell A great deal of my battle, as an actor, is to whittle away the things that make me self-conscious and try to trick myself into not being self-conscious. So, it's always a challenge, whether I'm lying in a hospital bed or flying around with a rocket pack on my back, or what have you. On the best of days, it's a challenge for me.
    Billy Campbell
    American film and television actor (1959 - )
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  • Sydney Smith A great deal of talent is lost in the world for want of courage.
    Sydney Smith
    English writer and cleric (1856 - 1934)
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  • Elizabeth Stuart Phelps A great idea is usually original to more than one discoverer. Great ideas come when the world needs them. Great ideas surround the world's ignorance and press for admission.
    Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
    American author, feminist and intellectual (1844 - 1911)
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  • Christopher Hampton A great number of the disappointments and mishaps of the troubled world are the direct result of literature and the allied arts. It is our belief that no human being who devotes his life and energy to the manufacture of fantasies can be anything but fundamentally inadequate
    Christopher Hampton
    British playwright (1946 - )
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  • Cyril Connolly A great writer creates a world of his own and his readers are proud to live in it. A lesser writer may entice them in for a moment, but soon he will watch them filing out.
    Cyril Connolly
    British criticus (1903 - 1974)
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  • Arthur Hertzberg A large part of the problem, is that young people are being born into the world and growing up without much hope. And so, they become murderers, they become suicide bombers.
    Arthur Hertzberg
    Jewish-American scholar and activist (1921 - 2006)
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  • Robertson Davies A Librettist is a mere drudge in the world of opera.
    Robertson Davies
    Canadian novelist and journalist (1913 - 1995)
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  • Mark Twain A lie can run around the world six times while the truth is still trying to put on its pants.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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