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  • Anna Julia Cooper Agnosticism has nothing to impart. Its sermons are the exhortations of one who convinces you he stands on nothing and urges you to stand there too.
    Anna Julia Cooper
    American author, activist and sociologist (1858 - 1964)
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  • Aeschylus Ah, lives of men! When prosperous they glitter - Like a fair picture; when misfortune comes - A wet sponge at one blow has blurred the painting.
    Aeschylus
    Greek dramatist (525 - 456)
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  • Mahatma Gandhi Ahimas is the attribute of the soul, and therefore, to be practiced by everybody in all affairs of life. If it cannot be practiced in all departments, it has no practical value.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • Susan Sontag AIDS occupies such a large part in our awareness because of what it has been taken to represent. It seems the very model of all the catastrophes privileged populations feel await them.
    Susan Sontag
    American writer, filmmaker, teacher, and political activist (1933 - 2004)
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  • Bill Bradley Al Gore clearly has the vision... it's a much better vision than that of George W. Bush.
    Bill Bradley
    American former professional basketball player and politician (1943 - )
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  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.
    Samuel Taylor Coleridge
    English poet and critic (1772 - 1834)
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  • Saul Bellow All a writer has to do to get a woman is to say he's a writer. It's an aphrodisiac.
    Saul Bellow
    American writer (1915 - 2005)
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  • Nathaniel Hawthorne All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.
    Nathaniel Hawthorne
    American short story writer (1804 - 1864)
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  • Havelock Ellis All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution.
    Havelock Ellis
    British psychologist (1859 - 1939)
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  • V.S. Naipaul All cultures have been mingled forever.
    V.S. Naipaul
    Trinidad and Tobago-born British writer (1932 - 2018)
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  • Boris Pasternak All customs and traditions, all our way of life, everything to do with home and order, has crumbled into dust in the general upheaval and reorganization of society. The whole human way of life has been destroyed and ruined. All that's left is the naked human soul stripped to the last shred, for which nothing has changed because it was always cold and shivering and reaching out to its nearest neighbor, as cold and lonely as itself.
    Doctor Zhivago (1958) Ch. 13
    Boris Pasternak
    Russian writer (1890 - 1960)
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  • Walt Whitman All faults may be forgiven of him who has perfect candor.
    Walt Whitman
    American poet, essayist, and journalist (1819 - 1892)
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  • Banksy All graffiti is low-level dissent, but stencils have an extra history. They've been used to start revolutions and to stop wars.
    Banksy
    England-based anonymous street artist and political activist
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  • Gilbert Seldes All great ideas are controversial, or have been at one time.
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  • Anna Akhmatova All has been looted, betrayed, sold; black death's wing flashed ahead.
    Anna Akhmatova
    Russian poet (1889 - 1966)
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  • Joaquin Miller All honor to him who shall win the prize. The world has cried for a thousand years. But to him who tries and fails and dies, I give great honor and glory and tears.
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  • Albert Speer All I know is that these two gases both had a quite extraordinary effect, and that there was no respirator, and no protection against them that we knew of. So the soldiers would have been unable to protect themselves against this gas in any way.
    Albert Speer
    German architect and Minister of Armaments during WWII (1905 - 1981)
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  • Bart Stupak All I'm asking for is the law that's been on the books for the last 33 years, no public funding for abortion. We are both saying the same thing, pro-life, pro-choice. Let's find the language that works for both of us so we can pass health care.
    Bart Stupak
    American politician (1952 - )
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  • Blaise Pascal All is one, all is different. How many natures exist in man? How many vocations? And by what chance does each man ordinarily choose what he has heard praised?
    Pensees (1669)
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Carl Schmitt All law is situational law. The sovereign produces and guarantees the situation in its totality. He has the monopoly over this last decision.
    Political Theology (1922)
    Carl Schmitt
    German political philosopher and legal scholar (1888 - 1985)
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