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• Our civilization is characterized by the word ''progress.'' Progress is its form rather than making progress being one of its features. Typically it constructs. It is occupied with building an ever more complicated structure. And even clarity is sought only

  ― Ludwig Wittgenstein
  Austrian - English philosopher (1889 - 1951)
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• Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it.

  ― Denis Diderot
  French philosopher (1713 - 1784)
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• Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.

  ― Ambrose Bierce
  American writer (1842 - 1914)
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• When you write down your life, every page should contain something no one has ever heard about.

  ― Elias Canetti
  Austrian novelist and philosopher (1905 - 1994)
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• Will you ever run out of creative ideas and expressions? Ha! The more creative ideas you have, the more you will discover. Creativity is a tree with countless branches that never stop blossoming.

  ― Alan Cohen
  American businessman (1954 - )
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• What do you want to be a sailor for? There are greater storms in politics than you will ever find at sea. Piracy, broadsides, blood on the decks. You will find them all in politics.

  ― David Lloyd George
  Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1916 to 1922 (1863 - 1945)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• characterized
• complicated
• expressions
• particular
• creativity
• blossoming

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