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  • Alva Myrdal The age in which we live can only be characterized as one of barbarism. Our civilization is in the process not only of being militarized, but also being brutalized.
    Alva Myrdal
    Swedish sociologist, diplomat and politician (1902 - 1986)
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  • Raymond Chandler The agent never receipts his bill, puts his hat on and bows himself out. He stays around forever, not only for as long as you can write anything that anyone will buy, but as long as anyone will buy any portion of any right to anything that you ever did write. He just takes ten per cent of your life.
    Raymond Chandler
    American writer (1888 - 1959)
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  • George Orwell The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Aristotle The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • John Mason The aim of education should be to convert the mind into living fountain, and not a reservoir.
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton The aim of life is appreciation; there is no sense in not appreciating things; and there is no sense in having more of them if you have less appreciation of them.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Cecil J. Sharpe The aim of morality is to give people a standard of action and a motive to work by which, they will not intensify each person's selfishness, but raise them up above it.
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  • Bertolt Brecht The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set some limit on infinite error.
    Life of Galileo
    Bertolt Brecht
    German - Austrian writer (1898 - 1956)
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  • Aristotle The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Robert Browning The aim, if reached or not, makes great the life: try to be Shakespeare, leave the rest to fate!
    Robert Browning
    English poet (1812 - 1889)
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  • Brenda Lee The amazing thing is that I'm sane. I'm not bitter. I'm not drugged out. I'm not broke. I'm still married to the same guy. My children don't hate me.
    Brenda Lee
    American singer (1944 - )
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  • Akhenaton The ambitious will always be first in the crowd; he presseth forward, he looketh not behind him. More anguish is it to his mind to see one before him, than joy to leave thousands at a distance.
    Akhenaton
    Egyptian King, Monotheist (1372 - 1337)
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  • Bob Graham The American people do not have the information upon which they can hold the administration and responsible agencies accountable. I call that a coverup.
    Bob Graham
    American politician and author (1936 - )
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  • Bob Graham The American people should be informed about what kind of capability terrorists have inside the United States. They should be informed of why we are not using information to do a more effective job of dealing with terrorists.
    Bob Graham
    American politician and author (1936 - )
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  • Blake Farenthold The American people should not be footing the bill for federal employees who stonewall Congress or rewarding government officials' bad behavior.
    Blake Farenthold
    American politician and lobbyist (1961 - )
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  • Ben Bernanke The amount of currency in circulation is not changing. The money supply is not changing in any significant way.
    Ben Bernanke
    American economist (1953 - )
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  • Bob Riley The amount of money we spend on education is important, but not nearly as important as how the money is spent.
    Bob Riley
    American politician (1944 - )
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  • Aaron Allston The analysis of the thing is not the thing itself.
    Aaron Allston
    American game designer and author (1960 - 2014)
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  • Benjamin Tucker The Anarchists most certainly believe in the Church; only they insist that all its work shall be purely voluntary, and that its discoveries and achievements, however beneficial, shall not be imposed upon the individual by authority.
    Individual Liberty
    Benjamin Tucker
    American anarchist and socialist (1854 - 1939)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The angels are so enamoured of the language that is spoken in heaven, that they will not distort their lips with the hissing and unmusical dialects of men, but speak their own, whether there be any who understand it or not.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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