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  • Napoleon A throne is only a bench covered with velvet.
    Napoleon
    French Emperor (1769 - 1821)
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  • Carl Sagan A tiny blue dot set in a sunbeam. Here it is. That's where we live. That's home. We humans are one species and this is our world. It is our responsibility to cherish it. Of all the worlds in our solar system, the only one so far as we know, graced by life.
    Cosmos: A Personal Voyage (1990) 58 min 56 sec
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Oliver Goldsmith A traveler of taste will notice that the wise are polite all over the world, but the fool only at home.
    Oliver Goldsmith
    Irish writer and poet (1728 - 1774)
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  • Walter Lippmann A useful definition of liberty is obtained only by seeking the principle of liberty in the main business of human life, that is to say, in the process by which men educate their responses and learn to control their environment.
    Walter Lippmann
    American writer, reporter, and political commentator (1889 - 1974)
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  • Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh A very sensitive person in this stupid world is bound to become mad.... Only meditation can save him from becoming mad.
    Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
    Indian godman and mystic (1931 - 1990)
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  • Mahatma Gandhi A vow is fixed and unalterable determination to do a thing, when such a determination is related to something noble which can only uplift the man who makes the resolve.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle A well cultivated mind is made up of all the minds of preceding ages; it is only the one single mind educated by all previous time.
    Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle
    French author (1657 - 1757)
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  • Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle A well-cultivated mind is, so to speak, made up of all the minds of preceding ages; it is only one single mind which has been educated during all this time.
    Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle
    French author (1657 - 1757)
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  • Lord Acton A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different times.
    Lord Acton
    British historian (1834 - 1902)
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  • David Seabury A wise unselfishness is not a surrender of yourself to the wishes of anyone, but only to the best discoverable course of action.
    David Seabury
    American psychologist, author, and lecturer (1885 - 1960)
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  • Nancy Reagan A woman is like a teabag - only in hot water do you realize how strong she is.
    Nancy Reagan
    American film actress and First Lady (1921 - 2016)
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  • Abraham Lincoln A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Jean François Lyotard A work can become modern only if it is first postmodern. Postmodernism thus understood is not modernism at its end but in the nascent state, and this state is constant.
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  • Paul Valery A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is making it, it can only be one stage in a series of inner transformations.
    Paul Valery
    French poet (1871 - 1945)
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  • Vladimir Nabokov A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual.
    Vladimir Nabokov
    American writer and poet (1899 - 1977)
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  • Anish Kapoor A work will only have deep resonance if the kind of darkness I can generate is something that is resident in me already.
    Anish Kapoor
    British Indian sculptor (1954 - )
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  • Milan Kundera A worker may be the hammer's master, but the hammer still prevails. A tool knows exactly how it is meant to be handled, while the user of the tool can only have an approximate idea.
    Milan Kundera
    Tsjech writer and criticus (1929 - 2023)
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  • Robert M. Hutchins A world community can exist only with world communication, which means something more than extensive short-wave facilities scattered ;about the globe. It means common understanding, a common tradition, common ideas, and common ideals.
    Robert M. Hutchins
    American educational philosopher (1899 - 1977)
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  • Leo Tolstoy A writer is dear and necessary for us only in the measure of which he reveals to us the inner workings of his very soul.
    Leo Tolstoy
    Russian writer (1828 - 1910)
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  • Jane Harrison A young and vital child knows no limit to his own will, and it is the only reality to him. It is not that he wants at the outset to fight other wills, but that they simply do not exist for him. Like the artist, he goes forth to the work of creation, gloriously alone.
    Jane Harrison
    British classical scholar and linguist
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