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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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  • Aneurin Bevan This island is made mainly of coal and surrounded by fish. Only an organizing genius could produce a shortage of coal and fish at the same time.
    Aneurin Bevan
    British Labor politician (1897 - 1960)
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  • Aristide Briand This means that the search for a formula of European cooperation in connection with the League of Nations, far from weakening the authority of this latter must and can only tend to strengthen it, for it is closely connected with its aims.
    Aristide Briand
    French statesman (1862 - 1932)
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  • Sir Isaac Newton This most beautiful system [The Universe] could only proceed from the dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being.
    Sir Isaac Newton
    British scientist, mathematician (1643 - 1727)
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  • Abraham Cowley This only grant me, that my means may lie too low for envy, for contempt too high.
    Abraham Cowley
    English poet (1618 - 1667)
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  • Carl Sagan This planet is run by crazy people. Remember what they have to do to get where they are. Their perspective is so narrow, so...brief. A few years. In the best of them a few decades. They care only about the time they are in power.
    Contact (1985) Ch. 23 (p. 403)
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Bernard Pivot This programme would only really make sense and work properly if it was also broadcast on France's international television channel TV5. So I ended up with a double production, on France 2 and TV5.
    Bernard Pivot
    French journalist and interviewer (1935 - )
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  • Austan Goolsbee This recession is the deepest in our lifetimes, the deepest since 1929. If you take the people thrown out of work in the 1982 recession, the 1991 recession, the 2001 recession, not only is this bigger, this is bigger than all of those combined.
    Austan Goolsbee
    American economist (1969 - )
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  • Eric Hoffer Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Bhagat Singh Those revolutionaries who have, by chance, escaped the gallows should live and show to the world that they cannot only embrace gallows for the ideal but also bear the worst type of tortures in the dark, dingy prison cells.
    Bhagat Singh
    Indian socialist revolutionary (1907 - 1931)
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  • George Orwell Those who 'abjure' violence can do so only because others are committing violence on their behalf.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Oscar Wilde Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love: it is the faithless who know love's tragedies.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Horace Those who cross the sea change only the climate, not their character.
    Horace
    Roman poet
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  • Alexander Pope Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Bertrand Russell Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Alan Bennett Those who have known the famous are publicly debriefed of their memories, knowing as their own dusk falls that they will only be remembered for remembering someone else.
    Alan Bennett
    British playwright, screenwriter, actor and author (1934 - )
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  • Plato Those who intend on becoming great should love neither themselves or their own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by themselves or others.
    Plato
    Greek philosopher (427 - 347)
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  • Nathalie Sarraute Those who live in a world of human beings can only retrace their steps.
    Nathalie Sarraute
    French writer (1900 - 1999)
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  • St. Francis de Sales Those who love to be feared fear to be loved, and they themselves are more afraid than anyone, for whereas other men fear only them, they fear everyone.
    St. Francis de Sales
    Bishop of Geneva and is honored as a saint in the Catholic Church (1567 - 1622)
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  • P. T. Barnum Those who really desire to attain an independence, have only set their minds upon it, and adopt the proper means, as they do in regard to any other object which they wish to accomplish, and the thing is easily done.
    P. T. Barnum
    American showman and circus operator (1810 - 1891)
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