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  • Lyndon B. Johnson The separation of church and state is a source of strength, but the conscience of our nation does not call for separation between men of state and faith in the Supreme Being.
    Lyndon B. Johnson
    American president (1908 - 1973)
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  • Lewis Mumford The settlement of America had its origins in the unsettlement of Europe. America came into existence when the European was already so distant from the ancient ideas and ways of his birthplace that the whole span of the Atlantic did not widen the gulf.
    Lewis Mumford
    American social philosopher (1895 - 1990)
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  • Antoinette Brown Blackwell The sexes in each species of being... are always true equivalents - equals but not identical.
    Antoinette Brown Blackwell
    American Protestant minister (1825 - 1921)
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld The shame that arises from praise which we do not deserve often makes us do things we should otherwise never have attempted.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Audre Lorde The sharing of joy, whether physical, emotional, psychic, or intellectual, forms a bridge between the sharers which can be the basis for understanding much of what is not shared between them, and lessens the threat of their difference.
    Audre Lorde
    American writer, feminist, womanist, librarian, and civil (1934 - 1992)
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  • Alan Parsons The Sicilian Defense album was never released and never will be if I have anything to do with it. I have not heard it since it was finished. I hope the tapes no longer exist.
    Alan Parsons
    English audio engineer, songwriter, musician (1948 - )
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  • Oscar Wilde The sick do not ask if the hand that smoothes their pillow is pure, nor the dying care if the lips that touch their brow have known the kiss of sin.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Kahlil Gibran The significance of a man is not in what he attains, but rather what he longs to attain.
    Kahlil Gibran
    Libian painter and writer (1883 - 1931)
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  • Bill Flores The single best indicator of whether or not a child is going to be in poverty or not is whether or not they were raised by a two-parent household or a single parent household.
    Bill Flores
    American businessman and politician (1954 - )
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  • Nick Lappos The size of your problem is defined by your efforts to convince yourself that it's not a problem.
    Nick Lappos
    American helicopter technician
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  • Miguel de Unamuno The skeptic does not mean him who doubts, but him who investigates or researches, as opposed to him who asserts and thinks that he has found.
    Miguel de Unamuno
    Spanish philosophical writer (1864 - 1936)
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  • Carl Honore The slow philosophy is not about doing everything in tortoise mode. It's less about the speed and more about investing the right amount of time and attention in the problem so you solve it.
    Carl Honore
    Canadian journalist (1967 - )
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  • Charles Mackay The smallest effort is not lost. Each wavelet on the ocean tost aids in the ebb-tide or the flow; each rain-drop makes some floweret blow; each struggle lessens human woe.
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  • Camille Paglia The smouldering eroticism of great European actresses like Jeanne Moreau demonstrated to my generations women's archetypal mystery and glamour, completely missing from the totalitarian world-view of the misogynist Foucault. For me, the big French D is not Derrida, but Deneuve.
    Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Lao-Tzu The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.
    Lao-Tzu
    Chinese philosopher (600 - 550)
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  • Barbara W. Tuchman The social damage was not in the failure but in the undertaking, which was expensive. The cost of war was the poison running through the 14th century.
    A Distant Mirror
    Barbara W. Tuchman
    American historian (1912 - 1989)
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  • Albert Camus The society based on production is only productive, not creative.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a deal longer.
    The Professor at the Breakfast Table (1859) Ch. XI
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Boris Yeltsin The Soviet Union could not exist without the image of the empire. The image of the empire could not exist without the image of force. The USSR ended the moment the first hammer pounded the Berlin Wall.
    Boris Yeltsin
    Russian politician (1931 - 2007)
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  • Boris Spassky The Soviet Union was an exception, but even there chess players were not rich. Only Fischer changed that.
    Boris Spassky
    Russian chess grandmaster (1937 - )
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