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  • Albert Bushnell Hart Everywhere among the English-speaking race criminal justice was rude, and punishments were barbarous; but the tendency was to do away with special privileges and legal exemptions.
    Albert Bushnell Hart
    American historian, writer, and editor (1854 - 1943)
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  • Thomas à Kempis Everywhere I have sought rest and not found it, except sitting in a corner by myself with a little book.
    Thomas à Kempis
    Dutch medieval Augustinian canon, writer and mystic (1380 - 1471)
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  • Thomas Carlyle Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Jean Baudrillard Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is killing us.
    Jean Baudrillard
    French sociologist and philosopher. (1929 - 2007)
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  • Hugo Ball Everywhere, the ethical predicament of our time imposes itself with an urgency which suggests that even the question ''Have we anything to eat?'' will be answered not in material but in ethical terms.
    Hugo Ball
    German author and poet (1886 - 1927)
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  • Thomas Malthus Evil exists in the world not to create despair but activity.
    An Essay on The Principle of Population (1798) XIX, 15, 1
    Thomas Malthus
    English cleric and scholar (1766 - 1834)
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  • Marquis de Sade Evil is a moral entity and not a created one, an eternal and not a perishable entity: it existed before the world; it constituted the monstrous, the execrable being who was also to fashion such a hideous world. It will hence exist after the creatures which people this world.
    Marquis de Sade
    French aristocrat, writer, politician and philosopher (1740 - 1814)
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  • Samuel Butler Evil is like water, it abounds, is cheap, soon fouls, but runs itself clear of taint.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Agatha Christie Evil is not something superhuman, it's something less than human.
    Agatha Christie
    British writer (1890 - 1976)
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  • Bill Nye Evolution is a theory, and it's a theory that you can test. We've tested evolution in many ways. You can't present good evidence that says evolution is not a fact.
    Bill Nye
    American science communicator, television presenter (1955 - )
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  • John Morley Evolution is not a force but a process. Not a cause but a law.
    John Morley
    British journalist, statesman (1838 - 1923)
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  • Oscar Wilde Examinations, sir, are pure humbug from beginning to end. If a man is a gentleman, he knows quite enough, and if he is not a gentleman, whatever he knows is bad for him.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Albert Schweitzer Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
    Albert Schweitzer
    German physician, theologian, philosopher, musician (1875 - 1965)
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  • Augustus Hare Examples would indeed be excellent things were not people so modest that none will set, and so vain that none will follow them.
    Augustus Hare
    English writer (1834 - 1903)
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  • Samuel Johnson Excellence in any department can be attained only by the labor of a lifetime; it is not to be purchased at a lesser price.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Aristotle Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Samuel Johnson Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree. We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Carl Sagan Except for children (who don't know enough not to ask the important questions), few of us spendtime wondering why nature is the way it is...
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Heywood Broun Except that right side up is best, there is not much to learn about holding a baby. There are one hundred and fifty-two distinctly different ways -and all are right! At least all will do.
    Heywood Broun
    American Journalist, Novelist (1888 - 1939)
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  • Dorothy L. Sayers Except ye become as little children, except you can wake on your fiftieth birthday with the same forward-looking excitement and interest in life that you enjoyed when you were five, ''ye cannot enter the kingdom of God.'' One must not only die daily, but every day we must be born again.
    Dorothy L. Sayers
    British writer (1893 - 1957)
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