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  • Sun Tzu If you know the enemy and know yourself you need not fear the results of a hundred battles.
    Sun Tzu
    Chinese general and strategist (544 - 496)
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  • Camille Paglia If you live in rock and roll, as I do, you see the reality of sex, of male lust and women being aroused by male lust. It attracts women. It doesn't repel them.
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Stephen Levine If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?
    Stephen Levine
    American poet and author (1937 - 2016)
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  • Joseph Addison If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Buddha If you wish to know the divine, feel the wind on your face and the warm sun on your hand.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • Assata Shakur If you're deaf, dumb, and blind to what's happening in the world, you're under no obligation to do anything. But if you know what's happening and you don't do anything but sit on your ass, then you're nothing but a punk.
    Assata: An Autobiography (1987) 222
    Assata Shakur
    American activist and former member of the Black Liberation Army (BLA) (1947 - )
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  • Peter Cochrane Imagine a school with children that can read or write, but with teachers who can not, and you have a metaphor of the Information Age in which we live.
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  • Carol Gilligan Implicitly adopting the male life as the norm, they have tried to fashion women out of a masculine cloth. It all goes back to Adam and Eve a story which shows... that if you make a woman out of man, you are bound to get into trouble.
    Carol Gilligan
    American feminist, ethicist and psychologist (1936 - )
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  • Jacques Barzun In any assembly the simplest way to stop transacting business and split the ranks is to appeal to a principal.
    Jacques Barzun
    French-American historian (1907 - 2012)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson In conversation the game is, to say something new with old words. And you shall observe a man of the people picking his way along, step by step, using every time an old boulder, yet never setting his foot on an old place.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Rebecca West In England and America a beard usually means that its owner would rather be considered venerable than virile; on the continent of Europe it often means that its owner makes a special claim to virility.
    Rebecca West
    British author (1892 - 1983)
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  • George Orwell In every one of those little stucco boxes there's some poor bastard who's never free except when he's fast asleep and dreaming that he's got the boss down the bottom of a well and is bunging lumps of coal at him.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • B. R. Ambedkar In Hinduism, conscience, reason and independent thinking have no scope for development.
    B. R. Ambedkar
    Indian jurist, economist and politician (1891 - 1956)
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  • Barbara Mandrell In my garden, which is a big garden, I have one part that is my bird garden, and every morning, 365 days a year, they get buckets of food - for the birds, for the squirrels, the chipmunks and the turtles in the summer.
    Barbara Mandrell
    American country music singer, musician, and actress (1948 - )
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  • Herman Melville In our own hearts, we mold the whole world's hereafters; and in our own hearts we fashion our own gods.
    Herman Melville
    American author (1819 - 1891)
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  • John Kenneth Galbraith In the affluent society no useful distinction can be made between luxuries and necessaries.
    John Kenneth Galbraith
    American economist (1908 - 2006)
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  • Carl Sandburg In the average newspaper there is not a complete suppression of stories that the sacred cows don't want printed. But rather what happens is that the stories get printed with stresses, colorations and emphasis that favor the sacred cows.
    Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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  • Harold S. Geneen In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later.
    Harold S. Geneen
    American Accountant, Industrialist, CEO, ITT (1910 - 1997)
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  • Thomas Carlyle In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom; we have to say, Like People like Government.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • George Eliot In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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