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  • Armstrong Williams In Washington, DC, politics dominate even the most casual conversations.
    Armstrong Williams
    American political commentator, entrepreneur and author (1962 - )
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  • Boutros Boutros-Ghali In Yugoslavia, I'd asked for additional forces too. I even went to meet the French prime minister, and I proposed additional forces... Nobody wanted to send troops.
    Boutros Boutros-Ghali
    Egyptian politician and diplomat (1922 - 2016)
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  • Jean Baudrillard Information can tell us everything. It has all the answers. But they are answers to questions we have not asked, and which doubtless don't even arise.
    Jean Baudrillard
    French sociologist and philosopher. (1929 - 2007)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche Instinct. When the house burns one forgets even lunch. Yes, but one eats it later in the ashes.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • C. S. Lewis Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching.
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Susan Sontag Interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art. Even more. It is the revenge of the intellect upon the world. To interpret is to impoverish, to deplete the world - in order to set up a shadow world of ''meanings.''
    Susan Sontag
    American writer, filmmaker, teacher, and political activist (1933 - 2004)
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  • Cass Sunstein Interviewers actively fool themselves, finding ways to learn from interviews even if there's actually nothing there to learn from.
    Cass Sunstein
    American legal scholar (1954 - )
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  • Leonardo Da Vinci Iron rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigors of the mind.
    Leonardo Da Vinci
    Italian painter, engineer and musician (1452 - 1519)
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  • Kin Hubbard It ain't a bad plan to keep still occasionally even when you know what you're talking about.
    Kin Hubbard
    American cartoonist, humorist, and journalist (1868 - 1930)
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  • Carolyn McCarthy It defies common sense that stores are fined for selling toy guns to children, but someone who isn't even allowed to board an airplane in this country can purchase as many real guns he wants with no questions asked.
    Carolyn McCarthy
    American nurse and politician (1944 - )
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  • Samuel Johnson It generally happens that assurance keeps an even pace with ability.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Agnes Macphail It is a fact that all women contribute more to marriage than men; for the most part they have to change their place of living, their method of work, a great many women today changing their occupation entirely on marriage; and they must even change their name.
    Agnes Macphail
    Canadian politician (1890 - 1954)
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  • Baltasar Gracián It is a great piece of skill to know how to guide your luck even while waiting for it.
    Baltasar Gracián
    Spanish Jesuit and philosopher (1601 - 1658)
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  • Bainbridge Colby It is a high patriotic duty that we support and sustain the men who have been placed in position of difficulty, burden, responsibility, and even danger as the result of our suffrages.
    Bainbridge Colby
    American politician and attorney (1869 - 1950)
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  • Charles Dickens It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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  • George Bernard Shaw It is a monstrous thing to force a child to learn Latin or Greek or mathematics on the ground that they are an indispensable gymnastic for the mental powers. It would be monstrous even if it were true.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Antoine Lavoisier It is almost possible to predict one or two days in advance, within a rather broad range of probability, what the weather is going to be; it is even thought that it will not be impossible to publish daily forecasts, which would be very useful to soci.
    Antoine Lavoisier
    French nobleman and chemist (1743 - 1794)
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  • Charles Caleb Colton It is always safe to learn, even from our enemies; seldom safe to venture to instruct, even our friends.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Vincent van Gogh It is better to be high-spirited even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and all to prudent.
    Vincent van Gogh
    Dutch painter (1853 - 1890)
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  • Bhagavad Gita It is better to do thine own duty, however lacking in merit, than to do that of another, even though efficiently. It is better to die doing one's own duty, for to do the duty of another is fraught with danger.
    Bhagavad Gita
    Indian Hindu storybook
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