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  • Henry Ward Beecher The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Jean-Luc Godard The cinema is not an art which films life: the cinema is something between art and life. Unlike painting and literature, the cinema both gives to life and takes from it, and I try to render this concept in my films. Literature and painting both exist as art from the very start; the cinema doesn't.
    Jean-Luc Godard
    French film director (1930 - 2022)
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  • Desmond Morris The city is not a concrete jungle. It is a human zoo.
    Desmond Morris
    British zoologist, ethologist and surrealist painter (1928 - )
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  • Cyril Connolly The civilized are those who get more out of life than the uncivilized, and for this we are not likely to be forgiven.
    Cyril Connolly
    British criticus (1903 - 1974)
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  • Benjamin Tucker The claim of the State Socialists, however, that this right would not be exercised in matters pertaining to the individual in the more intimate and private relations of his life is not borne out by the history of governments.
    Benjamin Tucker
    American anarchist and socialist (1854 - 1939)
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  • W. H. Auden The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age.
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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  • Bernard Bailyn The classics of the ancient world are everywhere in the literature of the Revolution, but they are everywhere illustrative, not determinative, of thought.
    The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution Ch. II, SOURCES AND TRADITIONS, p. 26
    Bernard Bailyn
    American historian, author, and academic (1922 - 2020)
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  • Agnes Repplier The clear-sighted do not rule the world, but they sustain and console it.
    Agnes Repplier
    American writer and social criticus (1855 - 1950)
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  • Beck The cliche of what a rock star is - there's something elitist about it. I never related to that. I'm an entertainer. I think of it as, you're performing for people. It's not a self-glorification thing.
    Beck
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1970 - )
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  • Burn Gorman The cliches are all true! My son Max has just turned two, and he's literally turned into this driven young man overnight! The terrible twos are not a myth, but he's such a laugh to be around.
    Burn Gorman
    British actor and musician (1974 - )
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  • Barney Frank The Clinton tax increase - which was an increase in taxes primarily on upper-income people - not only made the tax code more nearly progressive, it preceded one of the most productive economic periods in American life.
    Barney Frank
    American politician (1940 - )
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  • Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn The clock of communism has stopped striking. But its concrete building has not yet come crashing down. For that reason, instead of freeing ourselves, we must try to save ourselves from being crushed by its rubble.
    Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn
    Russian Novelist (1918 - 2008)
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  • Antonia Fraser The clue to book jacket photography is to look friendly and approachable, but not too glamorous.
    Antonia Fraser
    British author of history, novels, biographies and detective (1932 - )
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  • Carl von Clausewitz The commander's talents are given greatest scope in rough hilly country. Mountains allow him too little real command over his scattered units and he is unable to control them all; in open country, control is a simple matter and does not test his ability to the fullest.
    On War (1832)
    Carl von Clausewitz
    Prussian general and military theorist (1780 - 1831)
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  • Baba Kalyani The commodity price easing really does not play too much role in our margins because our basic raw material - steel - is not really a commodities engineering steel.
    Baba Kalyani
    Indian businessman (1949 - )
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  • Algernon Sydney The common Notions of Liberty are not from School Divines, but from Nature.
    Algernon Sydney
    English politician (1623 - 1683)
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  • Wayne Dyer The components of anxiety, stress, fear, and anger do not exist independently of you in the world. They simply do not exist in the physical world, even though we talk about them as if they do.
    Wayne Dyer
    American philosopher, self-help author, and a motivational speaker. (1940 - 2015)
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  • Arthur J. Goldberg The concept of neutrality can lead to a brooding and pervasive devotion to the secular and a passive, or even active, hostility to the religious. Such results are not only not compelled by the Constitution, but, it seems to me, are prohibited by it.
    Arthur J. Goldberg
    American jurist and politician
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  • Virginia Woolf The connection between dress and war is not far to seek; your finest clothes are those you wear as soldiers.
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Joseph Conrad The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it.
    Joseph Conrad
    In Poland born English writer (1857 - 1924)
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