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  • Walter Bagehot Progress would not have been the rarity it is if the early food had not been the late poison.
    Walter Bagehot
    English economist (1826 - 1877)
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  • Angela Davis Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation.
    Angela Davis
    American political activist, philosopher, academic, and author (1944 - )
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  • Abraham Lincoln Prohibition goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetite by legislation and makes crimes out of things that are not crimes.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • George Orwell Prolonged, indiscriminate reviewing of books is a quite exceptionally thankless, irritating and exhausting job. It not only involves praising trash but constantly inventing reactions towards books about which one has no spontaneous feeling whatever.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Barbara Kruger Prominence is cool, but when the delusion kicks in it can be a drag. Especially if you choose to surround yourself with friends and not acolytes.
    Barbara Kruger
    American artist (1945 - )
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  • Anthony J. D'Angelo Promise yourself to live your life as a revolution and not just a process of evolution.
    Anthony J. D'Angelo
    American writer
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  • Charles Simmons Promptitude is not only a duty, but is also a part of good manners; it is favorable to fortune, reputation, influence, and usefulness; a little attention and energy will form the habit, so as to make it easy and delightful.
    Charles Simmons
    American editor and novelist (1798 - 1856)
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  • Eric Hoffer Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Martin Luther King Property is intended to serve life, and no matter how much we surround it with rights and respect, it has no personal being. It is part of the earth man walks on. It is not man.
    Martin Luther King
    American preacher (1929 - 1968)
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  • Ernest Hemingway Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • Eric Butterworth Prosperity is not just having things. It is the consciousness that attracts the things. Prosperity is a way of living and thinking, and not just having money or things. Poverty is a way of living and thinking, and not just a lack of money or things.
    Eric Butterworth
    American minister, author, and radio personality
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  • Francis Bacon Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Calvin Coolidge Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.
    Calvin Coolidge
    American president (1872 - 1933)
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  • Bernard of Clairvaux Prostrate, see Thy cross I grasp,
    And Thy pierced feet I clasp;
    Gracious Jesus, spurn me not;
    On me, with compassion fraught,
    Let Thy glances fall.
    Thy cross of agony,
    My Beloved, look on me;
    Turn me wholly unto Thee;
    Be thou whole, say openly:
    I forgive thee all.
    Bernard of Clairvaux
    Burgundian abbot (1090 - 1153)
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  • Benjamin Disraeli Protection is not a principle but an expedient.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt Providence certainly does not favor just certain individuals, but the deep wisdom of its counsel, instruction and ennoblement extends to all.
    Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt
    German statesman (1767 - 1835)
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  • Thornton T. Munger Providence has nothing good or high in store for one who does not resolutely aim at something high or good. A purpose is the eternal condition of success.
    Thornton T. Munger
    American scientist and environmentalist
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  • Samuel Johnson Prudence is an attitude that keeps life safe, but does not often make it happy.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Saul Bellow Psychoanalysis pretends to investigate the Unconscious. The Unconscious by definition is what you are not conscious of. But the Analysts already know what's in it - they should, because they put it all in beforehand.
    Saul Bellow
    American writer (1915 - 2005)
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  • Bernard Berenson Psychoanalysts are not occupied with the minds of their patients; they do not believe in the mind but in a cerebral intestine.
    Bernard Berenson
    American art historian (1865 - 1959)
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