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  • Bhumibol Adulyadej It is true, there are many bad people; there are more of them than in the past, but that is because there are more people, meaning the population has tripled; there must be three times more bad people.
    Bhumibol Adulyadej
    Thai King (1927 - 2016)
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  • Charles Baudelaire It is unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more than an orgy of the common man. Instead of being a sudden impulse full of ardor and reverie, it becomes a distastefully utilitarian affair.
    Charles Baudelaire
    French poet (1821 - 1867)
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  • Henry David Thoreau It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart; it being much more sensitive.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Angela Carter It is, perhaps, better to be valued as an object of passion than never to be valued at all.
    Angela Carter
    British author (1940 - 1992)
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  • W. H. Auden It is... axiomatic that we should all think of ourselves as being more sensitive than other people because, when we are insensitive in our dealings with others, we cannot be aware of it at the time: conscious insensitivity is a self-contradiction.
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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  • Bernie Sanders It makes a lot more sense for us to be investing in jobs and education rather than jails and incarceration.
    Bernie Sanders
    American politician (1941 - )
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  • Giordano Bruno It may be you fear more to deliver judgment upon me than I fear judgment.
    Giordano Bruno
    Italian philosopher and priest (1548 - 1600)
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  • Paul Auster It often happens that things are other than what they seem, and you can get yourself into trouble by jumping to conclusions.
    Moon Palace (2010) 87
    Paul Auster
    American writer and film (1947 - )
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  • Ezra Pound It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week.
    Ezra Pound
    American poet (1885 - 1972)
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  • Barry Commoner It reflects a prevailing myth that production technology is no more amenable to human judgment or social interests than the laws of thermodynamics, atomic structure or biological inheritance.
    Barry Commoner
    American cellular biologist, college professor, and politician (1917 - 2012)
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  • Rollo May It requires greater courage to preserve inner freedom, to move on in one's inward journey into new realms, than to stand defiantly for outer freedom. It is often easier to play the martyr, as it is to be rash in battle.
    Rollo May
    American psychologist
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  • Napoleon It requires more courage to suffer than to die.
    Napoleon
    French Emperor (1769 - 1821)
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  • Jean de la Bruyère It requires more than mere genius to be an author.
    Jean de la Bruyère
    French writer (1645 - 1696)
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  • Henry David Thoreau It requires nothing less than a chivalric feeling to sustain a conversation with a lady.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Oliver Goldsmith It seemed to me pretty plain, that they had more of love than matrimony in them.
    Oliver Goldsmith
    Irish writer and poet (1728 - 1774)
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  • Samuel Johnson It seems not more reasonable to leave the right of printing unrestrained, because writers may be afterwards censured, than it would be to sleep with doors unbolted, because by our laws we can hang a thief.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Flannery O'Connor It seems that the fiction writer has a revolting attachment to the poor, for even when he writes about the rich, he is more concerned with what they lack than with what they have.
    Flannery O'Connor
    American writer and essayist (1925 - 1964)
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  • Calvin Klein It seems there's always another rumor about my life; some people are simply talked about more than others.
    Calvin Klein
    American fashion designer (1942 - )
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  • Frederick the Great It seems to me that man is made to act rather than to know: the principles of things escape our most persevering researches.
    Frederick the Great
    King of Prussia (1740-1786) (1712 - 1786)
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  • Alan Dershowitz It simply cannot be disputed that for decades the Palestinian leadership was more interested in there not being a Jewish state than in there being a Palestinian state.
    Alan Dershowitz
    American lawyer and author (1938 - )
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