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  • Ben Nicholson Any ideal system is its own worst enemy, and as soon as you start to implement these visions of grandeur, they just fall apart and turn into a complete tyranny.
    Ben Nicholson
    English painter (1894 - 1982)
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  • Alexander Theroux Artists are never complete people. But if it's art that completes them, then what is taken away?
    Alexander Theroux
    American novelist and poet
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  • Oscar Wilde As a wicked man I am a complete failure. Why, there are lots of people who say I have never really done anything wrong in the whole course of my life. Of course they only say it behind my back.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • John Stuart Mill As for charity, it is a matter in which the immediate effect on the persons directly concerned, and the ultimate consequence to the general good, are apt to be at complete war with one another.
    John Stuart Mill
    English economist (1806 - 1873)
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  • Will Durant As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
    Will Durant
    American writer, historian, and philosopher (1885 - 1981)
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  • Van Morrison Being famous was extremely disappointing for me. When I became famous it was a complete drag and it is still a complete drag.
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  • Caroll Spinney Big Bird went through his very human kind of struggles as a child. No other children's character has been that complete and detailed.
    Caroll Spinney
    American puppeteer, cartoonist, author and speaker (1933 - 2019)
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  • John Burroughs Blessed is the man who has some congenial work, some occupation in which he can put his heart, and which affords a complete outlet to all the forces there are in him.
    John Burroughs
    American writer (1837 - 1921)
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  • St. Augustine of Hippo Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
    St. Augustine of Hippo
    Roman African Christian theologian and philosopher (354 - 430)
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  • John Dewey Complete adaptation to environment means death. The essential point in all response is the desire to control environment.
    John Dewey
    American philosopher (1859 - 1952)
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  • André Gide Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
    André Gide
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1947) (1869 - 1951)
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  • Butch Otter Congress and the White House are working out their scheme for pushing through a healthcare 'reform' bill that has more pages than the U.S. Constitution has words. I guarantee you that not a single member of the House or Senate has a complete understanding of that legislation any more than they understood all the implications of the USA PATRIOT Act back in 2001.
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  • Billy Sunday Conversion is a complete surrender to Jesus. It's a willingness to do what he wants you to do.
    Billy Sunday
    American athlete and evangelist (1862 - 1935)
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  • Georges Bataille Each of us is incomplete compared to someone else - an animal's incomplete compared to a person... and a person compared to God, who is complete only to be imaginary.
    Georges Bataille
    French writer and critic (1897 - 1962)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Wayne Dyer Everything you need you already have. You are complete right now, you are a whole, total person, not an apprentice person on the way to someplace else. Your completeness must be understood by you and experienced in your thoughts as your own personal reality.
    Wayne Dyer
    American philosopher, self-help author, and a motivational speaker. (1940 - 2015)
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  • Henry James Experience is never limited, and it is never complete; it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider-web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching every air-borne particle in its tissue.
    Henry James
    American author (1843 - 1916)
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  • Arthur Hays Sulzberger Free nations with different histories, economies and a vast amount of stubborn pride will never achieve complete agreement, even when they desire the same objectives.
    Arthur Hays Sulzberger
    American newspaper publisher (1891 - 1968)
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  • John Stuart Mill General laws may be laid down respecting the tides; predictions may be founded on those laws, and the result will in the main, though often not with complete accuracy, correspond to the predictions.
    A System of Logic, Book 6, The Logic of the Moral Sciences Ch. 3
    John Stuart Mill
    English economist (1806 - 1873)
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  • John Paul II Have no fear of moving into the unknown. Simply step out fearlessly knowing that I am with you, therefore no harm can befall you; all is very, very well. Do this in complete faith and confidence.
    John Paul II
    Polish priest and later 264th Pope (1920 - 2005)
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