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  • Beeban Kidron This idea of the digital native in the bedroom taking down a fascist regime and building a billion-dollar company is a very attractive image, but actually, if you look at the research, young people are on the lowest rung of digital opportunity.
    Beeban Kidron
    British filmmaker (1961 - )
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  • Bert McCracken This is a song about the reason we all came down here today, and that's because we (expletive) love music. This is a crowd-surfing song.
    Bert McCracken
    American singer (1982 - )
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  • Francis Bacon This is certain, that a man that studieth revenge keeps his wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Ralph Waldo Trine This is the law of prosperity. When apparent adversity comes, be not cast down by it, but make the best of it., and always look forward for better things, for conditions more prosperous.
    Ralph Waldo Trine
    American writer (1866 - 1958)
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  • St. Augustine of Hippo This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections.
    St. Augustine of Hippo
    Roman African Christian theologian and philosopher (354 - 430)
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  • Bertolt Brecht This is the year which people will talk about
    This is the year which people will be silent about. The old see the young die.
    The foolish see the wise die. The earth no longer produces, it devours.
    The sky hurls down no rain, only iron.
    Poems, 1913-1956 Finland 1940 [Finnland 1940] (1940), trans. Sammy
    Bertolt Brecht
    German - Austrian writer (1898 - 1956)
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  • Aristophanes This is what extremely grieves us, that a man who never fought
    Should contrive our fees to pilfer, on who for his native land
    Never to this day had oar, or lance, or blister in his hand.
    Aristophanes
    Ancient Greek comic playwright (446 - 386)
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  • Albert Einstein This is what the painter, the poet, the speculative philosopher, and the natural scientists do, each in his own fashion.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Adelbert von Chamisso This man, although he appeared so humble and embarrassed in his air and manners, and passed so unheeded, had inspired me with such a feeling of horror by the unearthly paleness of his countenance, from which I could not avert my eyes, that I was unable longer to endure it.
    Adelbert von Chamisso
    German writer, liar and explorer (1781 - 1838)
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  • Carl Gustav Jung This world is empty to him alone who does not understand how to direct his libido towards objects, and to render them alive and beautiful for himself, for Beauty does not indeed lie in things, but in the feeling that we give to them.
    The Psychology of the Unconscious (1943)
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Amelia E. Barr This world is run with far too tight a rein for luck to interfere. Fortune sells her wares; she never gives them. In some form or other, we pay for her favors; or we go empty away.
    Amelia E. Barr
    British novelist and teacher (1831 - 1919)
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  • Bernard Malamud Thoreau gave an otherwise hidden passion and drew from woods and water the love affair with earth and sky he'd recorded in his journals.
    Bernard Malamud
    American novelist (1914 - 1986)
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  • Bill Hybels Those churches have closed down or have been merged with a church that has a more positive vision.
    Bill Hybels
    American church figure and author (1951 - )
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  • Samuel Butler Those who have never had a father can at any rate never know the sweets of losing one. To most men the death of his father is a new lease of life.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Richard Buckminster Fuller Those who play with the devil's toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.
    Richard Buckminster Fuller
    American poet, philosopher and inventor (1895 - 1983)
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  • John Keats Though a quarrel in the streets is a thing to be hated, the energies displayed in it are fine; the commonest man shows a grace in his quarrel.
    John Keats
    English poet (1795 - 1821)
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  • Miguel de Cervantes Though God's attributes are equal, yet his mercy is more attractive and pleasing in our eyes than his justice.
    Miguel de Cervantes
    Spanish writer and poet (1547 - 1616)
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  • Alexis de Tocqueville Though it is very important for man as an individual that his religion should be true, that is not the case for society. Society has nothing to fear or hope from another life; what is most important for it is not that all citizens profess the true religion but that they should profess religion.
    Alexis de Tocqueville
    French aristocrat, political philosopher and sociologist (1805 - 1859)
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  • Edward Dahlberg Though man is the only beast that can write, he has small reason to be proud of it. When he utters something that is wise it is nothing that the river horse does not know, and most of his creations are the result of accident.
    Edward Dahlberg
    American novelist, essayist and autobiographer (1900 - 1977)
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  • John Gay Through all the employments of life each neighbor abuses his brother; whore and rogue they call husband and wife: All professions be-rogue one another.
    John Gay
    British playwright and poet (1685 - 1732)
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