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  • Emma Goldman The higher mental development of woman, the less possible it is for her to meet a congenial male who will see in her, not only sex, but also the human being, the friend, the comrade and strong individuality, who cannot and ought not lose a single trait of her character.
    Emma Goldman
    American anarchist (1869 - 1940)
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  • Blaise Pascal The highest order of mind is accused of folly, as well as the lowest. Nothing is thoroughly approved but mediocrity. The majority has established this, and it fixes its fangs on whatever gets beyond it either way.
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • John Ruskin The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Henry Ford The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more service for the betterment of life.

    My Life and Work: Top Biography
    Henry Ford
    American industrialist (1863 - 1947)
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  • Bruce Springsteen The highway is alive tonight
    But nobody's kiddin' nobody about where it goes
    I'm sittin' down here in the campfire light
    With the ghost of old Tom Joad.
    The Ghost Of Tom Joad (1995) The Ghost of Tom Joad
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Dwight D. Eisenhower The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice; their choice!
    Dwight D. Eisenhower
    American president (1890 - 1969)
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  • Thomas Carlyle The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Aharon Appelfeld The Holocaust is a central event in many people's lives, but it also has become a metaphor for our century. There cannot be an end to speaking and writing about it. Besides, in Israel, everyone carries a biography deep inside him.
    Aharon Appelfeld
    Israeli writer (1932 - 2018)
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  • Blair Underwood The hope is they would like to bring it to Broadway next year, so we'll see that's to come in the end of the finance year and everybody else and also real estate and what theaters are available at the time but I would like to come back with it.
    Blair Underwood
    American actor (1964 - )
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  • William Blake The hours of folly are measured by the clock, but of wisdom no clock can measure.
    William Blake
    English poet (1757 - 1827)
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  • Marguerite Duras The house a woman creates is a Utopia. She can't help it - can't help trying to interest her nearest and dearest not in happiness itself but in the search for it.
    Marguerite Duras
    French author and filmmaker (1914 - 1996)
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  • A. E. Housman The house of delusions is cheap to build but drafty to live in.
    Introductory Lecture, October 3, 1892, London.
    A. E. Housman
    British poet (1859 - 1936)
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  • Karl Marx The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society.
    Karl Marx
    German economist and state philosopher (1818 - 1883)
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  • Norman O. Brown The human body is not a thing or substance, given, but a continuous creation. The human body is an energy system which is never a complete structure; never static; is in perpetual inner self-construction and self-destruction; we destroy in order to make it new.
    Norman O. Brown
    American scholar, writer and philosopher (1913 - 2002)
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  • Mark Twain The human race has but one really affective weapon, and that is laughter.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Adlai Stevenson II The human race has improved everything, but the human race.
    Adlai Stevenson II
    American politician and governor (1900 - 1965)
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  • Mark Twain The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession, but carrying a banner.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Abdullah Ahmad Badawi The idea is that they wouldn't want to deal with militant Islam but an Islam and Muslims who are committed to progress, committed to development, who like peace and are moderate in their ways. So that's what we are doing here.
    Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
    Malaysian politician (1939 - )
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  • Britt Ekland The idea of doing theatre always terrified me because I get terrible stage fright. In the early 1970s I was offered a panto but the thought of going on stage was just too mortifying.
    Britt Ekland
    Swedish actress and singer (1942 - )
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  • Angela Davis The idea of freedom is inspiring. But what does it mean? If you are free in a political sense but have no food, what's that? The freedom to starve?
    Angela Davis
    American political activist, philosopher, academic, and author (1944 - )
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