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  • Henry David Thoreau The fibers of all things have their tension and are strained like the strings of an instrument.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Bell Hooks The fierce willingness to repudiate domination in a holistic manner is the starting point for progressive cultural revolution. --From Women, Art, and Society: Fourth Edition (2007) by Whitney Chadwick
    Bell Hooks
    American author, professor, feminist (born G.J.Watkins) (1952 - 2021)
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  • Elizabeth Hardwick The fifties - they seem to have taken place on a sunny afternoon that asked nothing of you except a drifting belief in the moment and its power to satisfy.
    Elizabeth Hardwick
    American literary critic, novelist, and short story writer (1916 - 2007)
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  • Bob Riley The fight for reform comes down to a simple goal: giving our citizens the confidence that government serves the people first and the people only.
    Bob Riley
    American politician (1944 - )
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  • Don Delillo The figure of the gunman in the window was inextricable from the victim and his history. This sustained Oswald in his cell. It gave him what he needed to live. The more time he spent in a cell, the stronger he would get. Everybody knew who he was now.
    Don Delillo
    American Author (1936 - )
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  • Ignazio Silone The final conflict will be between the Communists and the ex-Communists.
    Ignazio Silone
    Italian writer and politician (ps by Secondo Tranquilli) (1900 - 1978)
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  • E. M. Forster The final test for a novel will be our affection for it, as it is the test of our friends, and of anything else which we cannot define.
    E. M. Forster
    English novelist, short story writer, essayist and librettist (1879 - 1970)
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  • Walter Lippmann The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on. The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.
    Walter Lippmann
    American writer, reporter, and political commentator (1889 - 1974)
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne The finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Bill Gates The finest pieces of software are those where one individual has a complete sense of exactly how the program works. To have that, you have to really love the program and concentrate on keeping it simple, to an incredible degree.
    Source: Interview from Programmers at Work
    Bill Gates
    American business magnate, investor, author and philanthropist (1955 - )
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  • Aldous Huxley The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subtly and feel nobly.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Blaise Pascal The finite is annihilated in the presence of the infinite, and becomes a pure nothing. So our spirit before God, so our justice before divine justice.
    Source: Pensees
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Ben Affleck The first 'Star Wars' movie had come out in 1977 and had become this huge phenomenon with all the toys and everything - it just kind of swept America. But internationally, it was also a big deal.
    Ben Affleck
    American actor and filmmaker. (1972 - )
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  • Seneca The first and greatest punishment of the sinner is the conscience of sin.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe The first and last thing required of genius is, love of the truth.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Edmund Burke The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • Pearl Bailey The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one's self. All sin is easy after that.
    Pearl Bailey
    American actress (1918 - 1990)
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  • Carlo Ratti The first autonomous cars date back to the late 20th century. But recent increases in sophistication and reductions in cost - reflected, for example, in cheap LIDAR systems, which can 'see' a street in 3D in a way similar to that of the human eye - are now bringing autonomous cars closer to the market.
    Carlo Ratti
    Italian architect, engineer and activist
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  • Buchi Emecheta The first book I wrote was The Bride Price which was a romantic book, but my husband burnt the book when he saw it. I was the typical African woman, I'd done this privately, I wanted him to look at it, approve it and he said he wouldn't read it.
    Buchi Emecheta
    Nigerian-born British novelist (1944 - 2017)
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  • Bernadette Peters The first Broadway show I ever heard was the recording of Carousel, and it was a very vivid experience.
    Bernadette Peters
    American actress, singer, and author (1948 - )
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