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  • Brunello Cucinelli These new young politicians have given us the confidence to start dreaming again to believe there is a better politics, and a better future for Italy in general.
    Brunello Cucinelli
    Italian designer and businessman
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton They have given us into the hand of new unhappy lords. Lords without anger and honor, who dare not carry their swords. They fight by shuffling papers; they have bright dead alien eyes; They look at our labor and laughter as a tired man looks at flies.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Louis Ferdinand Céline This instinctive repulsion which tradespeople inspire in men of sensitive feeling is one of the very rare consolations for being so impoverished which are given to those of us who don't sell anything to anybody.
    Louis Ferdinand Céline
    French writer (1894 - 1961)
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  • Charles De Montesquieu This is how I define talent; it is a gift that God has given us in secret, which we reveal without knowing it.
    Charles De Montesquieu
    French philosopher (1689 - 1755)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes Through our great good fortune, in our youth our hearts were touched with fire. It was given to us to learn at the outset that life is a profound and passionate thing.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Horace Walpole To act with common sense, according to the moment, is the best wisdom I know; and the best philosophy, to do one's duties, take the world as it comes, submit respectfully to one's lot, bless the goodness that has given us so much happiness with it, whatever it is, and despise affectation.
    Letter to Sir Horace Mann (27-05-1776)
    Horace Walpole
    British writer (1717 - 1797)
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  • Leonard Cohen To every people the land is given on condition. Perceived or not, there is a Covenant, beyond the constitution, beyond sovereign guarantee, beyond the nation's sweetest dreams of itself.
    Leonard Cohen
    Canadian-born American Musician, Songwriter, Singer (1934 - 2016)
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  • Bette Davis To fulfill a dream to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.
    Bette Davis
    American Actress, Producer (1908 - 1989)
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  • Bette Davis To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given the chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy. As everyone else, I love to dunk my crust in it. But alone, it is not a diet designed to keep body and soul together.
    The lonely life: an autobiography
    Bette Davis
    American Actress, Producer (1908 - 1989)
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  • John Updike To say that war is madness is like saying that sex is madness: true enough, from the standpoint of a stateless eunuch, but merely a provocative epigram for those who must make their arrangements in the world as given.
    John Updike
    American writer and criticus (1932 - 2009)
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  • Edmund Burke To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • Norman Thomas To us Americans much has been given; of us much is required. With all our faults and mistakes, it is our strength in support of the freedom our forefathers loved which has saved mankind from subjection to totalitarian power.
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  • Alexis Carrel To what extent is any given man morally responsible for any given act? We do not know.
    Alexis Carrel
    French surgeon, anatomist and biologist (1873 - 1944)
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  • Ben Parr Trending topics helped make Twitter a more relevant metric of what the world was talking about at any given moment. Google has worked for years in the space, most notably with Google Trends and Hot Searches, but Google+ offers the search giant the ability to see what is truly trending in real time.
    Ben Parr
    American journalist, author, venture capitalist (1985 - )
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  • Leo Tolstoy True science investigates and brings to human perception such truths and such knowledge as the people of a given time and society consider most important. Art transmits these truths from the region of perception to the region of emotion.
    Leo Tolstoy
    Russian writer (1828 - 1910)
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  • Rebecca West We all drew on the comfort which is given out by the major works of Mozart, which is as real and material as the warmth given up by a glass of brandy.
    Rebecca West
    British author (1892 - 1983)
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  • Boris Yeltsin We all have an equal interest in stability and security throughout Europe. The years the OSCE has existed, and particularly this year, have given rise to great expectations and at the same time to powerful disappointments.
    Boris Yeltsin
    Russian politician (1931 - 2007)
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  • Carl Gustav Jung We are born at a given moment, in a given place and, like vintage years of wine, we have the qualities of the year and of the season of which we are born. Astrology does not lay claim to anything more.
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Ann Veneman We are doing everything we can to protect the food supply. And I can tell you that we're making decisions based upon sound science and good public policy, given the circumstances that we are now in.
    Ann Veneman
    American politician (1949 - )
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  • George F. Will We are given children to test us and make us more spiritual.
    George F. Will
    American columnist (1941 - )
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