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  • Berry Wendell To be interested in food but not in food production is clearly absurd.
    Berry Wendell
    American novelist, poet and environmental activist (1934 - )
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  • Wendell Berry To be interested in food but not in food production is clearly absurd.
    Wendell Berry
    American writer and poet (1934 - )
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  • Charles Baudelaire To be just, that is to say, to justify its existence, criticism should be partial, passionate and political, that is to say, written from an exclusive point of view, but a point of view that opens up the widest horizons.
    Charles Baudelaire
    French poet (1821 - 1867)
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  • Percy Bysshe Shelley To be omnipotent but friendless is to reign.
    Percy Bysshe Shelley
    English poet (1792 - 1822)
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  • Bono To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.
    Bono
    Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
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  • William Hazlitt To be remembered after we are dead, is but poor recompense for being treated with contempt while we are living.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Akhenaton To be satisfied with a little, is the greatest wisdom; and he that increaseth his riches, increaseth his cares; but a contented mind is a hidden treasure, and trouble findeth it not.
    Akhenaton
    Egyptian King, Monotheist (1372 - 1337)
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  • Captain J. G. Stedman To be sure an European woman would blush to her fingers ends at the very idea of appearing publicly stark naked; but education and prejudice are everything, since it is an axiom, that where there is no feeling of self-reproach, there can assuredly be no shame.
    Captain J. G. Stedman
    British soldiar, writer, artist (1744 - 1797)
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  • Scott Reed To begin with, you must realize that any idea accepted by the brain is automatically transformed into an action of some sort. It may take seconds or minutes or longer - but ideas always produce a reaction of some sort.
    Scott Reed
    American author
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  • Sir Thomas Browne To believe only possibilities is not faith, but mere philosophy.
    Sir Thomas Browne
    British author, physician and philosopher (1605 - 1682)
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  • William Cowper To combat may be glorious, and succes perhaps may crown us; but to fly is safe.
    William Cowper
    English poet (1731 - 1800)
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  • Arthur Wellesley Duke of Wellington To define it rudely but not ineptly, engineering is the art of doing that well with one dollar, which any bungler can do with two after a fashion.
    Arthur Wellesley Duke of Wellington
    Irish military leader and statesman, defeated Napoleon (1769 - 1852)
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  • Huey Newton To die for the racists is lighter than a feather, but to die for the people is heavier than any mountain and deeper than any sea.
    To Die for the People (1972)
    Huey Newton
    African-American political activist (1942 - 1989)
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  • Samuel Butler To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Erich Fromm To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.
    Erich Fromm
    German - American philosopher and psychologist (1900 - 1980)
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero To disregard what the world thinks of us is not only arrogant but utterly shameless.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Plutarch To do an evil act is base. To do a good one without incurring danger, is common enough. But it is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds though he risks everything in doing them.
    Plutarch
    Greek biographer and essayist (46 - 120)
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  • Og Mandino To do anything truly worth doing, I must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in with gusto and scramble through as well as I can.
    Og Mandino
    American author (1923 - 1996)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche To do great things is difficult, but to command great things is more difficult.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Philip Massinger To doubt is worse than to have lost; And to despair is but to antedate those miseries that must fall on us.
    Philip Massinger
    English dramatist (1583 - 1640)
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