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  • Walt Whitman In the faces of men and women I see God, and in my own face in the glass, I find letters from God dropped in the street, and every one is signed by God's name. And I leave them where they are, for I know that wherever I go, others will punctually come for ever and ever.
    Walt Whitman
    American poet, essayist, and journalist (1819 - 1892)
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  • Bjorn Lomborg In the rich world, the environmental situation has improved dramatically. In the United States, the most important environmental indicator, particulate air pollution, has been cut by more than half since 1955, rivers and coastal waters have dramatically improved, and forests are increasing.
    Bjorn Lomborg
    Danish author (1965 - )
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  • Bill Hader In the U.S., it's like, you start with a great script, and then on set - not everybody, but definitely in the Apatow group - you go off, and you're improvising on camera. So while you're on camera, you're saying things that no one else has ever heard before during the actual take.
    Bill Hader
    American actor, comedian, writer, producer, and director (1978 - )
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  • Barney Frank Increasing inequality in income distribution in this country has broader policy implications, and there is also the growing problem of perverse incentives that result from executives receiving grossly disproportionate compensation based on decisions they themselves take.
    Barney Frank
    American politician (1940 - )
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  • Mary Wollstonecraft Independence I have long considered as the grand blessing of life, the basis of every virtue; and independence I will ever secure by contracting my wants, though I were to live on a barren heath.
    Mary Wollstonecraft
    British feministisch writer (1759 - 1797)
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  • Isaac Asimov Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core of science fiction, its essence has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all.
    Isaac Asimov
    American writer (1920 - 1992)
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  • Alexandre Dumas père Infatuated, half through conceit, half through love of my art, I achieve the impossible working as no one else ever works.
    Alexandre Dumas père
    French writer (1802 - 1870)
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  • Gabriel Garcia Marquez Injections are the best thing ever invented for feeding doctors.
    Gabriel Garcia Marquez
    Colombian writer (1927 - 2014)
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  • A. N. Wilson IQ in general has improved since tests first began. Psychologists think that this is because modern life becomes ever more complicated.
    A. N. Wilson
    English writer and columnist (1950 - )
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  • Percy Bysshe Shelley Is it not odd that the only generous person I ever knew, who had money to be generous with, should be a stockbroker.
    Percy Bysshe Shelley
    English poet (1792 - 1822)
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  • William Shakespeare It comes to pass oft that a terrible oath, with a swaggering accent sharply twanged off, gives manhood more approbation than ever proof itself would have earned him.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne It happens as one sees in cages: the birds who are outside despair of ever getting in, and those within are equally desirous of getting out
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Ella Wheeler Wilcox It has ever been since time began, and ever will be, till time lose breath, that love is a mood - no more - to man, and love to a woman is life or death.
    Ella Wheeler Wilcox
    American Poet, Journalist (1850 - 1919)
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  • Bill Bryson It is a slightly arresting notion that if you were to pick yourself apart with tweezers, one atom at a time, you would produce a mound of fine atomic dust, none of which had ever been alive but all of which had once been you.
    A Short History of Nearly Everything
    Bill Bryson
    American-British author (1951 - )
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  • Anne Brontë It is a woman's nature to be constant - to love one and one only, blindly, tenderly, and for ever.
    The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848) ch. XXVII
    Anne Brontë
    British writer (1820 - 1849)
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  • Jane Austen It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
    Jane Austen
    English writer (1775 - 1817)
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  • George Robert Gissing It is as idle to range against man's fatuity as to hope that he will ever be less a fool.
    George Robert Gissing
    English writer (1857 - 1903)
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  • Bell Hooks It is crucial for the future of the Black liberation struggle that we remain ever mindful that ours is a shared struggle, that we are each other's fate.
    Bell Hooks
    American author, professor, feminist (born G.J.Watkins) (1952 - 2021)
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  • Jonathan Swift It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by providence as an evil to mankind.
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • John Ruskin It is impossible, as impossible as to raise the dead, to restore anything that has ever been great or beautiful in architecture. That which I have... insisted upon as the life of the whole, that spirit which is given only by the hand and eye of the workman, can never be recalled.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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