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  • Elie Wiesel In the concentration camps, we discovered this whole universe where everyone had his place. The killer came to kill, and the victims came to die.
    Interview Oprah november 2000
    Elie Wiesel
    Rumanian-born American Writer (1928 - 2016)
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  • George Mcgovern It is simply untrue that all our institutions are evil that all politicians are mere opportunists, that all aspects of university life are corrupt. Having discovered an illness, it's not terribly useful to prescribe death as a cure.
    George Mcgovern
    American historian, author (1922 - 2012)
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  • Boutros Boutros-Ghali It was a mistake. I was wrong, but I discovered this many years later. I was acting on the basis of this mandate given me by the most important leaders of the world: President Bush's father, prime minister of France, President Mitterand, the Chinese, everybody.
    Boutros Boutros-Ghali
    Egyptian politician and diplomat (1922 - 2016)
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  • Barbara Cooney It was not until I was in my forties, in the fifth decade of my life, that the sense of place, the spirit of place, became of paramount importance to me. It was then that I began my travels, that I discovered, through photography, the quality of light, and that I gradually became able to paint the mood of place.
    Barbara Cooney
    American writer and illustrator (1917 - 2000)
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  • Bernadette Devlin It wasn't long before people discovered the final horrors of letting an urchin into Parliament.
    Bernadette Devlin
    Irish civil rights activist (1947 - )
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  • Isaac Bashevis Singer Kindness, I've discovered, is everything in life.
    Isaac Bashevis Singer
    Polish Yiddish writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1978) (1902 - 1991)
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  • Carl von Clausewitz Knowledge must be so absorbed into the mind that it ceases to exist in a separate, objective way. ...in 1797 the secret of the effectiveness of resisting to the last had not yet been discovered.
    On War (1832)
    Carl von Clausewitz
    Prussian general and military theorist (1780 - 1831)
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  • A. J. P. Taylor Lenin was the first to discover that capitalism 'inevitably' caused war; and he discovered this only when the First World War was already being fought. Of course he was right. Since every great state was capitalist in 1914.
    A. J. P. Taylor
    British historian (1906 - 1990)
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  • Plato Let us describe the education of our men. What then is the education to be? Perhaps we could hardly find a better than that which the experience of the past has already discovered, which consists, I believe, in gymnastic, for the body, and music for the mind.
    Plato
    Greek philosopher (427 - 347)
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  • Vauvenargues Most people grow old within a small circle of ideas, which they have not discovered for themselves. There are perhaps less wrong-minded people than thoughtless.
    Vauvenargues
    French philosopher (1715 - 1747)
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  • Barry Manilow My hair was slicked down with a part. But that was before I discovered the blow-dryer. Now I'm fabulous.
    Barry Manilow
    American singer-songwriter, producer and actor (1943 - )
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  • Anna Quindlen New York City has finally hired women to pick up the garbage, which makes sense to me, since, as I've discovered, a good bit of being a woman consists of picking up garbage.
    Anna Quindlen
    American author and journalist (1952 - )
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  • Sydney Harris Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.
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  • Jean Rostand One must credit an hypothesis with all that has had to be discovered in order to demolish it.
    Jean Rostand
    French writer (1894 - 1977)
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  • Blaise Pascal People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found out by others.
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Francis Bacon People have discovered that they can fool the devil; but they can't fool the neighbors.

    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Jean Genet Perhaps all music, even the newest, is not so much something discovered as something that re-emerges from where it lay buried in the memory, inaudible as a melody cut in a disc of flesh. A composer lets me hear a song that has always been shut up silent within me.
    Jean Genet
    French playwright and author (1910 - 1986)
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  • Oscar Wilde Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Bernice Johnson Reagon Personally I discovered that you could go through the academy as a young scholar, come out, and almost immediately have an impact on the academic environment.
    Bernice Johnson Reagon
    American composer, scholar, and social activist (1942 - )
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  • Gabriel Garcia Marquez She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.
    Gabriel Garcia Marquez
    Colombian writer (1927 - 2014)
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