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  • Alan Paton There is only one way in which one can endure man's inhumanity to man and that is to try, in one's own life, to exemplify man's humanity to man.
    Alan Paton
    South African author and anti-apartheid activist (1903 - 1988)
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  • Henry van Dyke There is only one way to get ready for immortality, and that is to love this life and live it as bravely and faithfully and cheerfully as we can.
    Henry van Dyke
    American Protestant Clergyman and Writer (1852 - 1933)
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  • David Viscott There is some place where your specialties can shine. Somewhere that difference can be expressed. It's up to you to find it, and you can.
    David Viscott
    American writer, teacher (1938 - 1996)
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  • Ben Folds There is still some art in pop music. But it can't happen if you're not inspired.
    Ben Folds
    American singer-songwriter, musician and composer (1966 - )
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  • Ben Goldacre There is this peculiar blind spot in the culture of academic medicine around whether withholding trial results is research misconduct. People who work in any industry can reinforce each others' ideas about what is okay.
    Ben Goldacre
    British physician, academic (1974 - )
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  • C. P. Snow There is, of course, no complete solution. But we can do something. The chief means open to us is education There is no excuse for letting another generation be as vastly ignorant, or as devoid of understanding and sympathy, as we are ourselves.
    Source: The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution (1959)
    C. P. Snow
    English novelist (1905 - 1980)
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  • Mark Twain There isn't a single human characteristic that can be safely labeled as ''American.''
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Bobby Fischer There isn't a woman player in the world I can't give knights-odds to and still beat.
    Bobby Fischer
    American chess grandmaster (1943 - 2008)
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  • Bjornstjerne Bjornson There may be men who think they are attacking Christianity when they investigate the historical origin or the morality of some dogma; I do not think so. Honest investigation can result only in growth.
    Bjornstjerne Bjornson
    Norwegian writer (1832 - 1910)
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  • George Bernard Shaw There may be some doubt as to who are the best people to have charge of children, but there can be no doubt that parents are the worst.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Mother Teresa There must be a reason why some people can afford to live well. They must have worked for it. I only feel angry when I see waste. When I see people throwing away things that we could use.
    Mother Teresa
    Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic nun and missionary (1910 - 1997)
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  • Sir Alfred Jules Ayer There never comes a point where a theory can be said to be true. The most that one can claim for any theory is that it has shared the successes of all its rivals and that it has passed at least one test which they have failed.
    Sir Alfred Jules Ayer
    English philosopher (1910 - 1989)
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  • Edward Hoagland There often seems to be a playfulness to wise people, as if either their equanimity has as its source this playfulness or the playfulness flows from the equanimity; and they can persuade other people who are in a state of agitation to calm down and manage a smile.
    Edward Hoagland
    American Novelist, Essayist (1932 - )
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  • Aaron Sorkin There really isn't a story that you can't tell inside of it. It's very much a clearinghouse for anything that goes on in the world. So you're not at all limited.
    Aaron Sorkin
    American screenwriter, director, producer, and playwright (1961 - )
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  • Benjamin Watson There shouldn't be any looting or anything like that. But we're seeing a lot of frustration, and nobody knows the answer. All of us are saying we need an answer, and what I'm saying is we need, all of us, a heart change so, as America, we can move forward.
    Benjamin Watson
    American football player (1980 - )
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  • Burt Rutan There was a wonderful little short four-year time period when marvelous things happened. It started in 1908, when the Wright brothers flew in Paris, and everybody said, 'Ooh, hey, I can do that.' There's only a few people that have flown in early 1908. In four years, 39 countries had hundreds of airplanes, thousands of pilots.
    Burt Rutan
    American aerospace engineer and entrepreneur (1943 - )
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  • Huey Newton There will be no prison which can hold our movement down.
    Source: To Die for the People (2009)
    Huey Newton
    African-American political activist (1942 - 1989)
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  • Bill Kristol There will be trying times during Obama's presidency, and liberty will need staunch defenders. Can Obama reshape liberalism to be, as it was under F.D.R., a fighting faith, unapologetically patriotic and strong in the defense of liberty? That would be a service to our country.
    Bill Kristol
    American political analyst (1952 - )
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  • Robert J. Ringer There's a basic human weakness inherent in all people which tempts them to want what they can't have and not want what is readily available to them.
    Robert J. Ringer
    American writer
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  • Ursula K. Le Guin There's a good deal in common between the mind's eye and the TV screen, and though the TV set has all too often been the boobtube, it could be, it can be, the box of dreams.
    Ursula K. Le Guin
    American writer of science fiction and fantasy books (1929 - 2018)
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