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  • John Stuart Mill But society has now fairly got the better of individuality; and the danger which threatens human nature is not the excess, but the deficiency, of personal Impulses and preferences.
    John Stuart Mill
    English economist (1806 - 1873)
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  • Bai Ling But somehow I feel like still it's a gift, and I wonder, how can I give this gift to others? Just work hard, and do whatever I can do, to be that, and to return the love to the fans. I like to give them joy and smiles to them. Give back to them.
    Bai Ling
    Chinese-American actress (1966 - )
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  • Gloria Steinem But somewhere within each of us, buried at varying depths depending on the age and degree of neglect or abuse, shame or coercion we endured, there is a resistant, daydreaming, rebellious, creative, unique child -- a true self who is waiting.
    Revolution from Within (2012) 98
    Gloria Steinem
    American feminist writer (1934 - )
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  • Bret Harte But still when the mists of doubt prevail, And we lie becalmed by the shores of age, We hear from the misty troubled shore The voce of children gone before. Drawing the soul to its anchorage.
    Bret Harte
    American short story writer and poet (1836 - 1902)
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  • C. S. Lewis But supposing one tries to live by Pantheistic philosophy? Does it lead to a complacent Hegelian optimism?
    The Pilgrims Regress (1933) Pilgrims Regress 132-133
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne But sure there is need of other remedies than dreaming, a weak contention of art against nature.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Agatha Christie But surely for everything you have to love you have to pay some price.
    Agatha Christie
    British writer (1890 - 1976)
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  • George Eliot But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling something, having once existed, its effect is not to be done away with.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken But that is a rare, rare man, I venture, who is as steadily intelligent, as constantly sound in judgment, as little put off by appearances, as the average women of forty-eight.
    In Defense of Women (1918)
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Alan Watts But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be.
    Alan Watts
    English philosopher, priest and writer (1915 - 1973)
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  • Benjamin Hoff But the basic Taoism that we are concerned with here is simply a particular way of appreciating, learning from, and working with whatever happens in everyday life.
    Benjamin Hoff
    American author (1946 - )
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  • Oscar Wilde But the bravest man amongst us is afraid of himself.
    The picture of Dorian Gray (1891)
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Brent Scowcroft But the central point is that any campaign against Iraq, whatever the strategy, cost and risks, is certain to divert us for some indefinite period from our war on terrorism.
    Brent Scowcroft
    American US Air Force officer (1925 - 2020)
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  • Elizabeth Barrett Browning But the child's sob curses deeper in the silence than the strong man in his wrath!
    Elizabeth Barrett Browning
    English poet (1806 - 1861)
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  • Avi Arad But the community knew Blade, and everybody but us was shocked at the box office, and subsequently the DVD. That was the beginning of the DVD revolution, and Blade was just like wildfire.
    Avi Arad
    Israeli-American businessman (1948 - )
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  • David Herbert Lawrence But the effort, the effort! And as the marrow is eaten out of a man's bones and the soul out of his belly, contending with the strange rapacity of savage life, the lower stage of creation, he cannot make the effort any more.
    David Herbert Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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  • Ann Veneman But the fact of the matter is that all scientific evidence would show, based upon what we know about this disease, that muscle cuts - that is, the meat of the animal itself - should not cause any risk to human health.
    Ann Veneman
    American politician (1949 - )
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  • Carl Sagan But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Albert Pike But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him. God is a spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.
    Albert Pike
    American attorney, soldier, writer, and Freemason (1809 - 1891)
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  • Bill Condon But the imposition of morality onto science, - where it does not belong - has become rampant in recent years.
    Bill Condon
    American director and screenwriter (1955 - )
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