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  • Alexis de Tocqueville There is hardly a pioneer's hut which does not contain a few odd volumes of Shakespeare. I remember reading the feudal drama of Henry V for the first time in a log cabin.
    Alexis de Tocqueville
    French aristocrat, political philosopher and sociologist (1805 - 1859)
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  • Charles Horton Cooley There is hardly any one so insignificant that he does not seem imposing to some one at some time.
    Charles Horton Cooley
    American sociologist (1864 - 1929)
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  • Lord Chesterfield There is hardly anybody good for everything, and there is scarcely anybody who is absolutely good for nothing.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Ben Hecht There is hardly one in three of us who live in the cities who is not sick with unused self.
    Ben Hecht
    American writer, playwright (1894 - 1964)
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  • George Orwell There is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no difference who wins. Nearly always one side stands more or less for progress, the other side more or less for reaction.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Havelock Ellis There is held to be no surer test of civilization than the increase per head of the consumption of alcohol and tobacco. Yet alcohol and tobacco are recognizable poisons, so that their consumption has only to be carried far enough to destroy civilization altogether.
    Havelock Ellis
    British psychologist (1859 - 1939)
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  • May L. Becker There is hope for all of us. Well, anyway, if you don't die you live through it, day in, day out.
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  • Bill Cosby There is hope for the future because God has a sense of humor and we are funny to God.
    Bill Cosby
    American actor, comedian, producer (1937 - )
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  • Arthur C. Clarke There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags do not wave in a vacuum.
    Arthur C. Clarke
    British science fiction writer, science writer and futurist (1917 - 2008)
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  • Mother Teresa There is hunger for ordinary bread, and there is hunger for love, for kindness, for thoughtfulness; and this is the great poverty that makes people suffer so much.
    Mother Teresa
    Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic nun and missionary (1910 - 1997)
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  • Benjamin N. Cardozo There is in each of us a stream of tendency, whether you choose to call it philosophy or not, which gives coherence and direction to thought and action. Judges cannot escape that current any more than other mortals.
    Benjamin N. Cardozo
    American lawyer and jurist (1870 - 1938)
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  • Hubert Humphrey There is in every American, I think, something of the old Daniel Boone - who, when he could see the smoke from another chimney, felt himself too crowded and moved further out into the wilderness.
    Hubert Humphrey
    American politician (1911 - 1978)
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  • Maria Montessori There is in every child a painstaking teacher, so skilful that he obtains identical results in all children in all parts of the world. The only language men ever speak perfectly is the one they learn in babyhood, when no one can teach them anything!
    Maria Montessori
    Italian educationalist (1870 - 1952)
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  • Sir John Bowring There is in every human heart Some not completely barren part, Where seeds of truth and love might grow, And flowers of generous virtue flow; To plant, to watch, to water there, This be our duty, be our care.
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  • Antonin Artaud There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the only solution to the strangulation that life had prepared for him.
    Antonin Artaud
    French producer and actor (1896 - 1948)
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  • Washington Irving There is in every woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.
    Washington Irving
    American writer (1783 - 1859)
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  • Mao Tse-Tung There is in fact no such thing as art for art's sake, art that stands above classes, art that is detached from or independent of politics. Proletarian literature and art are part of the whole proletarian revolutionary cause.
    Mao Tse-Tung
    Chinese politician (1893 - 1976)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche There is in general good reason to suppose that in several respects the gods could all benefit from instruction by us human beings. We humans are - more humane.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Francis Bacon There is in human nature generally more of the fool than of the wise.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Eric Hoffer There is in most passions a shrinking away from ourselves. The passionate pursuer has all the earmarks of a fugitive.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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