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  • Arundhati Roy The Congress has historically played covert communal politics in order to create what in India we call vote banks where you pit one community against another and so on in order to secure votes.
    Arundhati Roy
    Indian author (1961 - )
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  • Bjarne Stroustrup The connection between the language in which we think/program and the problems and solutions we can imagine is very close. For this reason restricting language features with the intent of eliminating programmer errors is at best dangerous.
    The C++ Programming Language p.9
    Bjarne Stroustrup
    Danish computer scientist (1950 - )
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  • André Malraux The crucial discovery was made that, in order to become painting, the universe seen by the artist had to become a private one created by himself.
    André Malraux
    French writer and politician (ps. by A. Berger) (1901 - 1976)
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  • Arthur Henderson The Disarmament Conference has become the focal point of a great struggle between anarchy and world order... between those who think in terms of inevitable armed conflict and those who seek to build a universal and durable peace.
    Arthur Henderson
    British Labour politician
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  • Johannes Kepler The diversity of the phenomena of nature is so great, and the treasures hidden in the heavens so rich, precisely in order that the human mind shall never be lacking in fresh nourishment.
    Johannes Kepler
    German astronomer, mathematician and physicist (1572 - 1630)
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  • Anna Garlin Spencer The earth is ready, the time is ripe, for the authoritative expression of the feminine as well as the masculine interpretation of that common social consensus which is slowly writing justice in the State and fraternity in the social order.
    Anna Garlin Spencer
    American educator and feminist (1851 - 1931)
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  • Carter G. Woodson The educational system of a country is worthless unless it [revolutionizes the social order]. Men of scholarship, and prophetic insight, must show us the right way and lead us into light which is shining brighter and brighter.
    Carter G. Woodson
    American historian, author and journalist (1875 - 1950)
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  • Srully Blotnick The evidence unmistakably indicates that you have to spend money in order to make money.
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  • Ronald Laing The experience and behavior that gets labeled schizophrenic is a special strategy that a person invents in order to live in an unlivable situation.
    Ronald Laing
    unorthodox Scottish psychiatrist (1927 - 1989)
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  • Joan Didion The fancy that extraterrestrial life is by definition of a higher order than our own is one that soothes all children, and many writers.
    Joan Didion
    American Essayist (1934 - 2021)
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  • Maria Montessori The first idea that the child must acquire, in order to be actively disciplined, is that of the difference between good and evil; and the task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility, and evil with activity.
    Maria Montessori
    Italian educationalist (1870 - 1952)
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  • Boo Weekley The gossip mill on tour is always turning. I have to be a little careful about what I tell guys who I don't consider close friends, because even though they might not spread it to other players, they'll usually tell their wives. And once the wives get it, it's gone.
    Boo Weekley
    American professional golfer (1973 - )
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  • Jean Cocteau The greatest masterpiece in literature is only a dictionary out of order.
    Jean Cocteau
    French writer (1889 - 1963)
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  • Samuel Johnson The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading, in order to write; a man will turn over half a library to make one book.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Thornton T. Munger The habit of saving is itself an education. It fosters every virtue, teaches self-denial, cultivates the sense of order, trains to forethought, and so broadens the mind.
    Thornton T. Munger
    American scientist and environmentalist
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue; and no genius can long or often utter anything which is not invited and gladly entertained by men around him.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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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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  • 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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  • Louise Bogan The intellectual is a middle-class product; if he is not born into the class he must soon insert himself into it, in order to exist. He is the fine nervous flower of the bourgeoisie.
    Louise Bogan
    American poet (1897 - 1970)
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  • Bradley Whitford The issue for my character, and the issue of the show is, how dirty do your feet have to get without suffocating yourself in the mud in order to get an inch of what you really want done?
    Bradley Whitford
    American actor and political activist (1959 - )
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