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  • José Saramago The worst pain ... isn't the pain you feel at the time, it's the pain you feel later on when there's nothing you can do about it, They say that time heals all wounds, But we never live long enough to test that theory.
    José Saramago
    Portugese writer (1922 - 2010)
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  • George Bernard Shaw The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them; that's the essence of inhumanity.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Arthur Christopher Benson The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortune, but its fears.
    Arthur Christopher Benson
    English essayist, poet, author and academic (1862 - 1925)
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  • Milan Kundera The worst thing is not that the world is unfree, but that people have unlearned their liberty.
    Milan Kundera
    Tsjech writer and criticus (1929 - 2023)
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  • Aharon Appelfeld The writer in western civilization has become not a voice of his tribe, but of his individuality. This is a very narrow-minded situation.
    Aharon Appelfeld
    Israeli writer (1932 - 2018)
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  • Karl Marx The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it.
    Karl Marx
    German economist and state philosopher (1818 - 1883)
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  • William Golding The writer probably knows what he meant when he wrote a book, but he should immediately forget what he meant when he's written it.
    William Golding
    British writer (1911 - 1993)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Samuel Butler The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has come to the knowledge of good and evil it is stronger, but we care less about it.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Samuel Johnson Their learning is like bread in a besieged town: every man gets a little, but no man gets a full meal.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Franklin D. Roosevelt Their road will be long and hard, for the enemy is strong. He may hurl back our forces, success may not come with rushing speed, but we shall return again and again.
    Franklin D. Roosevelt
    American statesman (1882 - 1945)
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  • Alfred Lord Tennyson Theirs is not to make reply: Theirs is not to reason why: Theirs is but to do and die.
    Alfred Lord Tennyson
    English poet (1809 - 1892)
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  • Billie Holiday Them that's got shall get
    Them that's not shall lose
    So the Bible said and it still is news
    Mama may have, Papa may have
    But God bless the child that's got his own
    That's got his own.
    God Bless The Child
    Billie Holiday
    American jazz musician and singer-songwriter (1915 - 1959)
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  • Bobby McFerrin Then I came up with this crazy idea just to walk out on the stage with no band at all and just start singing whatever came to mind. I actually fought the idea for a while because it seemed almost too radical, but it became obvious what I was supposed to be doing.
    Bobby McFerrin
    American jazz vocalist (1950 - )
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  • André Malraux Then I despair... I remember that all through history, the way of truth and love has always won. There have been murderers and tyrants, and for a time they can seem invincible. But in the end they always fall. Think of it always.
    André Malraux
    French writer and politician (ps. by A. Berger) (1901 - 1976)
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  • Brit Marling Then in college, besides economics, I also majored in studio art and got involved in photography and making short films and acting. But I didn't know you could make a living that way.
    Brit Marling
    American actress and screenwriter (1982 - )
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  • Henry Ward Beecher Theology is but our ideas of truth classified and arranged.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Burton Richter Theorists can create all sorts of theories which go beyond the Standard Model. But there's not one bit of experimental evidence to point out which way you should go.
    Burton Richter
    American physicist (1931 - 2018)
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  • Elmore Leonard There are 500 million people on Facebook, but what are they saying to each other? Not much.
    Elmore Leonard
    American novelist, short story writer, and screenwriter (1925 - 2013)
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  • Aaron Spelling There are a couple of things that I'm sure people don't think are important, but I do. I don't like hair changes unless there's a reason for it. Clothing - I don't like to see an outfit worn more than one time in an hour - you can wear it again a few weeks later.
    Aaron Spelling
    American film and television (1923 - 2006)
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