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  • Andrew Cohen To campaign against colonialism is like barking up a tree that has already been cut down.
    Andrew Cohen
    American spiritual teacher (1955 - )
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  • Barry Marshall To gastroenterologists, the concept of a germ causing ulcers was like saying that the Earth is flat.
    Barry Marshall
    Australian physician, Nobel Prize Laureate in Physiology (1951 - )
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  • George Santayana To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight to the blood.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • Johann Kaspar Lavater To know yourself you have only to set down a true statement of those that ever loved or hated you.
    Johann Kaspar Lavater
    Swiss theologist and mysticist (1741 - 1801)
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  • Albert Camus To live is to hurt others, and through others, to hurt oneself. Cruel earth! How can we manage not to touch anything? To find what ultimate exile?
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Jan Christian Smuts To me the greatest thing that has happened on this earth of ours is the rise of the human race to the vision of God. That story of the human rise to what I call the vision of God is the story which is told in the Bible.
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  • Billy West To me, it all comes down to things being character-driven. It's hard for me to look beyond that. CG and all this cool stuff - so be it. But to me, it pretty much begins and ends with character-driven plots rather than technologically-driven plots.
    Billy West
    American voice actor and musician (1952 - )
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  • Federico Garcia Lorca To see you naked is to recall the Earth.
    Federico Garcia Lorca
    Spanish poet and playwright (1898 - 1936)
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  • A. E. Housman To-day, the road all runners come,
    Shoulder-high, we bring you home,
    And set you at your threshold down,
    Townsman of a stiller town.
    A Shropshire Lad (1896) No. 19 (To an Athlete Dying Young), st. 2
    A. E. Housman
    British poet (1859 - 1936)
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  • Richard Dawkins Today the theory of evolution is about as much open to doubt as the theory that the earth goes round the sun.
    Richard Dawkins
    English ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author (1941 - )
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  • Ben Foster Transcendental Meditation, for me, has been a way of turning down the outside racket and turning up the bandwidth of instinct, intuition, concentration, attention. On the light ends, it's a power nap. On the strong ends, it's a giant battery, and that battery doesn't run out.
    Ben Foster
    American actor (1980 - )
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  • Carter G. Woodson Truth comes to us from the past, then, like gold washed down from the mountains.
    Carter G. Woodson
    American historian, author and journalist (1875 - 1950)
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  • René Daumal Truth is one, but error proliferates. Man tracks it down and cuts it up into little pieces hoping to turn it into grains of truth. But the ultimate atom will always essentially be an error, a miscalculation.
    René Daumal
    French writer, philosopher and poet (1908 - 1944)
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  • Billy Beane Trying to build a team over the course of the winter to put on the field is really just half the job. Because if your best players go down, it's not so much him going down as who you replace him with, which ultimately might have the biggest impact on how you end up finishing. So you want to have both a belt and suspenders for support.
    Billy Beane
    American baseball player (1962 - )
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  • Betty Williams Turmoil is everywhere, and the whole world is waiting for solutions to come from the top down. That's not how it works - community change from the bottom up makes a real difference.
    Betty Williams
    Irish activist (1943 - 2020)
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  • Bernard M. Baruch Two things are bad for the heart - running up stairs and running down people.
    Bernard M. Baruch
    American investor, philanthropist, statesman, and political consultant (1870 - 1965)
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  • Frederick W. Robertson Two thousand years ago there was One here on this earth who lived the grandest life that ever has been lived yet -a life that every thinking man, with deeper or shallower meaning, has agreed to call divine.
    Frederick W. Robertson
    English divine (1816 - 1853)
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  • Blac Chyna Tyga takes King to school, I take him to school - we pretty much split our time with him down the middle. So, co-parenting isn't bad at all with Tyga.
    Blac Chyna
    American model, socialite and entrepreneur (1988 - )
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  • Bob Barr Unfortunately, most gun control advocates are not really interested in rational debate, and their political games simply send Alice chasing white rabbits down holes.
    Bob Barr
    American attorney and politician (1948 - )
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  • Matthew Arnold Unquiet souls. In the dark fermentation of earth, in the never idle workshop of nature, in the eternal movement, yea shall find yourselves again.
    Matthew Arnold
    British critic and poet (1822 - 1888)
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