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  • C. S. Lewis The Guide sang: The new age, the new art, the new ethic and thought, And fools crying, Because it has begun It will continue as it has begun! The wheel runs fast, therefore the wheel will run Faster for ever, The old age is done, We have new lights and see without the sun.
    The Pilgrims Regress (1933) Pilgrims Regress 186-187
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Ace Frehley The guys in my band are good friends on and off the stage. The band members that I have now is probably the best band that I have ever had.
    Ace Frehley
    American musician and songwriter (1951 - )
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  • Carlos Ruiz Zafon The haunting of history is ever present in Barcelona. I see cities as organisms, as living creatures. To me, Madrid is a man and Barcelona is a woman. And it's a woman who's extremely vain.
    Carlos Ruiz Zafon
    Spanish novelist (1964 - 2020)
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  • Oscar Wilde The history of women is the history of the worst form of tyranny the world has ever known. The tyranny of the weak over the strong. It is the only tyranny that lasts.
    A Woman of No Importance Act 3
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • George Orwell The human beings did not hate Animal Farm any less now that it was prospering; indeed, they hated it more than ever.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Anna Howard Shaw The idealists dream and the dream is told, and the practical men listen and ponder and bring back the truth and apply it to human life, and progress and growth and higher human ideals come into being and so the world moves ever on.
    Anna Howard Shaw
    American activist and leader of the women's suffrage movement (1847 - 1919)
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  • Oliver Goldsmith The jests of the rich are ever successful.
    Oliver Goldsmith
    Irish writer and poet (1728 - 1774)
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  • Mark Van Doren The job of the poet is to render the world - to see it and report it without loss, without perversion. No poet ever talks about feelings. Only sentimental people do.
    Mark Van Doren
    American poet, writer and critic (1894 - 1972)
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  • Raymond Chandler The law isn't justice. It's a very imperfect mechanism. If you press exactly the right buttons and are also lucky, justice may show up in the answer. A mechanism is all the law was ever intended to be.
    Raymond Chandler
    American writer (1888 - 1959)
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  • Ben Horowitz The laws of business physics have been broken in terms of how many customers you can acquire and how fast. No one in history has ever acquired 450 million customers in the same amount of time that WhatsApp did.
    Ben Horowitz
    American businessman, investor, blogger, and author (1966 - )
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  • George Bernard Shaw The lesson intended by an author is hardly ever the lesson the world chooses to learn from his book.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Aesop The level of our success is limited only by our imagination and no act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted.
    Aesop
    Greek fabulist and story teller (620 - 564)
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  • Carl Sagan The library connects us with the insight and knowledge, painfully extracted from Nature, of the greatest minds that ever were, with the best teachers, drawn from the entire planet and from all our history, to instruct us without tiring, and to inspire us to make our own contribution to the collective knowledge of the human species. I think the health of our civilization, the depth of our awareness about the underpinnings of our culture and our concern for the future can all be tested by how well
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • George Santayana The little word is has its tragedies: it marries and identifies different things with the greatest innocence; and yet no two are ever identical, and if therein lies the charm of wedding them and calling them one, therein too lies the danger.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • Harriet Beecher Stowe The longest day must have its close -the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning. An eternal, inexorable lapse of moments is ever hurrying the day of the evil to an eternal night, and the night of the just to an eternal day.
    Harriet Beecher Stowe
    American Novelist (1811 - 1896)
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  • Benjamin Disraeli The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end.
    Henrietta Temple (1837) IV, ch 1
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Bob Rae The major cuts in federal and provincial transfers to social service agencies, health care, education, and social housing over the past several years have not bee matched by an explosion in private giving. Nor will they ever be.
    The Three Questions - Prosperity and the Public Good (1998) Ch. Five, The Second Question: Charity and Welfare
    Bob Rae
    Canadian diplomat, lawyer and negotiator (1948 - )
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  • Mikhail Gorbachev The market came with the dawn of civilization and it is not an invention of capitalism. If it leads to improving the well-being of the people there is no contradiction with socialism.
    Mikhail Gorbachev
    Russian and former Soviet politician (1931 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The method of nature: who could ever analyze it?
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Oliver Goldsmith The mind is ever ingenious in making its own distress.
    Oliver Goldsmith
    Irish writer and poet (1728 - 1774)
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