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  • Philip Roth To become a celebrity is to become a brand name. There is Ivory Soap, Rice Krispies, and Philip Roth. Ivory is the soap that floats; Rice Krispies the breakfast cereal that goes snap-crackle-pop; Philip Roth the Jew who masturbates with a piece of liver.
    Philip Roth
    American Novelist (1933 - 2018)
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  • Henry Drummond To become Christ-like is the only thing in the whole world worth caring for, the thing before which every ambition of man is folly and all lower achievement vain.
    Henry Drummond
    Scottish evangelist, biologist, writer and lecturer (1786 - 1860)
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  • Cary Fowler To begin with, I've always known that I was a little bit different. And, I have a lot of relatives who own farms. I grew up in the American South where political issues and issues of justice were at the forefront. What I do now is a combination of all these factors.
    Cary Fowler
    American agriculturalist and businessman (1949 - )
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  • Mahatma Gandhi To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • Baruch Spinoza To bring aid to everyone in need far surpasses the powers and advantage of a private person.... So the case of the poor falls upon society as a whole.
    Source: Ethics
    Baruch Spinoza
    Dutch philosopher (1632 - 1677)
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  • William Shakespeare To business that we love, we rise betime and go to't with delight.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • William Cowper To combat may be glorious, and succes perhaps may crown us; but to fly is safe.
    William Cowper
    English poet (1731 - 1800)
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  • André Malraux To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less.
    André Malraux
    French writer and politician (ps. by A. Berger) (1901 - 1976)
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  • Thomas Jefferson To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Bobby Ghosh To conflict journalists, a tiny, tight-knit tribe, tragedy is practically an occupational requirement: our work requires us to seek it out, measure it, contextualize it, and chronicle it.
    Bobby Ghosh
    Indian-born American journalist and commentator
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  • Adam Arkin To confront those fears, in a controlled environment, where there's 300 people around you going through the same thing, it's this weird sort of yin and yang.
    Adam Arkin
    American actor (1956 - )
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  • Bruce Lee To contemplate a thing implies maintaining oneself OUTSIDE it, resolved to keep a distance between it and ourselves.
    Source: The Warrior Within : The Philosophies of Bruce Lee (1996)
    Bruce Lee
    Chinese-American Actor, Director, Author, Martial Artist (1940 - 1973)
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  • Albert Camus To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't everything.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Abraham Lincoln To correct the evils, great and small, which spring from want of sympathy and from positive enmity among strangers, as nations or as individuals, is one of the highest functions of civilization.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Bill Maris To create exponential growth in health care, we need to put tremendous resources and focus behind the best human minds working in this field.
    Bill Maris
    American entrepreneur and venture capitalist
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  • Henry James To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession, to establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one's own.
    Henry James
    American author (1843 - 1916)
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  • Abbie M. Dale To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of your life.
    Abbie M. Dale
     
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  • George Santayana To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle To despise theory is to have the excessively vain pretension to do without knowing what one does, and to speak without knowing what one says.
    Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle
    French author (1657 - 1757)
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  • Huey Newton To die for the racists is lighter than a feather, but to die for the people is heavier than any mountain and deeper than any sea.
    Source: To Die for the People (1972)
    Huey Newton
    African-American political activist (1942 - 1989)
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