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  • Ban Ki-moon Now, more than ever, we need to connect the dots between climate, poverty, energy, food and water. These issues cannot be addressed in isolation.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Percy Bysshe Shelley Obscenity, which is ever blasphemy against the divine beauty in life... is a monster for which the corruption of society forever brings forth new food, which it devours in secret.
    Percy Bysshe Shelley
    English poet (1792 - 1822)
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  • Anne Rice Obsession led me to write. It's been that way with every book I've ever written. I become completely consumed by a theme, by characters, by a desire to meet a challenge.
    Anne Rice
    American author of gothic fiction (1941 - 2021)
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  • Louis Aragon Of all possible sexual perversions, religion is the only one to have ever been scientifically systematized.
    Louis Aragon
    French poet (1897 - 1982)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Of all the damnable waste of human life that ever was invented, clerking is the worst.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Bill Watterson Oh look, yet another Christmas TV special! How touching to have the meaning of Christmas brought to us by cola, fast food, and beer.... Who'd have ever guessed that product consumption, popular entertainment, and spirituality would mix so harmoniously?
    Bill Watterson
    American cartoonist (1958 - )
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  • Oscar Wilde On the whole, the great success of marriage in the States is due partly to the fact that no American man is ever idle, and partly to the fact that no American wife is considered responsible for the quality of her husband's dinners.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Bram Stoker One and all we felt that the holy calm that lay like sunshine over the wasted face and form was only an earthly token and symbol of the calm that was to reign for ever.
    Dracula (1897) Dr. Seward of Lucy Westenra
    Bram Stoker
    Irish author (1847 - 1912)
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  • Vincent Van Gogh One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
    Vincent Van Gogh
    Dutch painter (1853 - 1890)
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  • Josh Billings One of rarest things that a man ever does is to do the best he can.
    Josh Billings
    American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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  • Abraham Pais One of the absolute rules I learned in the war was, don't know anything you don't need to know, because if you ever get caught they will get it out of you.
    To Save A Life : Stories of Holocaust Rescue (2000)
    Abraham Pais
    Dutch-American physicist (1918 - 2000)
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  • Bernice Johnson Reagon One of the biggest things I understood in a program like that was that it allowed more young African American scholars to do field research in the Caribbean and in Africa than had ever happened before in the history of the country and since.
    Bernice Johnson Reagon
    American composer, scholar, and social activist (1942 - )
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  • Henry Miller One of the few reasons why so few of us ever act, instead of reacting, is because we are continually stifling our deepest impulses.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • Ziad K. Abdelnour One of the hardest decisions you'll ever face in life is choosing whether to walk away or try harder.
    Economic Warfare: Secrets of Wealth Creation in the Age of Welfare Politics
    Ziad K. Abdelnour
    American banker (1960 - )
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  • Dorothy Canfield Fisher One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.
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  • John Ruskin One of the prevailing sources of misery and crime is in the generally accepted assumption, that because things have been wrong a long time, it is impossible they will ever be right.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Josh Billings One of the rarest things that a man ever does, is to do the best he can.
    Josh Billings
    American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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  • Albert Einstein One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Rose Macaulay One should, I think, always give children money, for they will spend it for themselves far more profitably than we can ever spend it for them.
    A casual commentary
    Rose Macaulay
    English writer (1881 - 1958)
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  • Antoine Lavoisier One succeeds in obtaining an equivalent production at a lower price by improving the arts, trades and agriculture and by developing the physical and moral qualities of workers, farmers and craftsmen.
    Antoine Lavoisier
    French nobleman and chemist (1743 - 1794)
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