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  • Aldous Huxley In religion all words are dirty words. Anybody who gets eloquent about Buddha, or God, or Christ, ought to have his mouth washed out with carbolic soap.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Nicolai A. Berdyaev In sex we have the source of man's true connection with the cosmos and of his servile dependence. The categories of sex, male and female, are cosmic categories, not merely anthropological categories.
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  • Jean de la Fontaine In short, luck's always to blame.
    Jean de la Fontaine
    French writer (1621 - 1695)
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  • B. H. Liddell Hart In should be the duty of every soldier to reflect on the experiences of the past, in the endeavor to discover improvements, in his particular sphere of action, which are practicable in the immediate future.
    B. H. Liddell Hart
    British soldier and military historian (1895 - 1970)
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  • Beilby Porteus In sober state,
    Through the sequestered vale of rural life,
    The venerable patriarch guileless held
    The tenor of his way.
    Death: A Poetical Essay
    Beilby Porteus
    English Bishop and reformer (1731 - 1809)
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  • George Eliot In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Bill Cosby In spite of the six thousand manuals on child raising in the bookstores, child raising is still a dark continent and no one really knows anything. You just need a lot of love and luck - and, of course, courage.
    Bill Cosby
    American actor, comedian, producer (1937 - )
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  • Francis Bacon In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Barack Obama In the absence of sound oversight,responsible businesses are forced to compete against unscrupulous and underhanded businesses, who are unencumbered by any restrictions on activities that might harm the environment, or take advantage of middle-class families, or threaten to bring down the entire financial system.
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Ben Shapiro In the aftermath of President Obama's re-election, members of both the administration and the media trumpeted that Obama had received his long-sought mandate. Obamacare, Americans were told, was the law of the land. It could not be changed; it could not be stopped.
    Ben Shapiro
    American conservative political commentator and attorney (1984 - )
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  • Bobby Scott In the Brown decision, the United States Supreme Court unanimously struck down the legal and moral footing of racially segregated public education in this country.
    Bobby Scott
    American politician (1947 - )
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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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  • Campbell Scott In the editing room, 20 percent of the time you're using stuff from before the actor knew the camera was rolling or you're taking a line from somewhere else and putting it in his mouth.
    Campbell Scott
    American actor, director and producer (1961 - )
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  • Bryant Gumbel In the first two years this is a man who tried his best to balance the budget, to reform health care, to fight for gay rights, to support personal freedoms. Couldn't those be considered doing the right things, evidence of true character?
    Bryant Gumbel
    American television journalist and sportscaster (1948 - )
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  • Alexander Hamilton In the general course of human nature, A power over a man's subsistence amounts to a power over his will.
    Alexander Hamilton
    American statesman (1757 - 1804)
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  • Carl Bernstein In the John Paul II days, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger had the advantage of staying in his cupboard - the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith - exchanging views only with the Pope, and speaking publicly only through carefully written missives on doctrinal issues.
    Carl Bernstein
    American investigative journalist and author (1944 - )
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  • Thomas Merton In the last analysis, the individual person is responsible for living his own life and for ''finding himself.'' If he persists in shifting his responsibility to somebody else, he fails to find out the meaning of his own existence.
    Thomas Merton
    American religeous writer, poet (1915 - 1968)
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  • Dhammapada In the light of his vision he has found his freedom: his thoughts are peace, his words are peace and his work is peace.
    Dhammapada
    collection of sayings of the Buddha in verse form
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  • B. Carroll Reece In the long run, much public opinion is made in the universities; ideas generated there filter down through the teaching profession and the students into the general public.
    B. Carroll Reece
    American politician (1889 - 1961)
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  • Alexander Hamilton In the main it will be found that a power over a man's support (salary) is a power over his will.
    Alexander Hamilton
    American statesman (1757 - 1804)
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