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  • Josiah Gilbert Holland The heart is wiser than the intellect.
    Josiah Gilbert Holland
    American Author (1819 - 1881)
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  • William James The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioned our characters in the wrong way.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Christian Morgenstern The hidden child wants to be able to participate and to co-create in art, rather than being simply an admiring viewer.
    Christian Morgenstern
    German poet (1871 - 1914)
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  • Alexander Pope The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Albert Einstein The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule...
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • George Orwell The high sentiments always win in the end, the leaders who offer blood, toil, tears, and sweat always get more out of their followers than those who offer safety and a good time. When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Emma Goldman The higher mental development of woman, the less possible it is for her to meet a congenial male who will see in her, not only sex, but also the human being, the friend, the comrade and strong individuality, who cannot and ought not lose a single trait of her character.
    Emma Goldman
    American anarchist (1869 - 1940)
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  • Henry James The historian, essentially, wants more documents than he can really use; the dramatist only wants more liberties than he can really take.
    Henry James
    American author (1843 - 1916)
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  • Voltaire The history of human opinion is scarcely anything more than the history of human errors.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • G.W.F. Hegel The history of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of freedom.
    G.W.F. Hegel
    German philosopher (1770 - 1831)
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  • Aldous Huxley The horror no less than the charm of real life consists precisely in the recurrent actualization of the inconceivable.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Oliver Goldsmith The hours that we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowned with success.
    Oliver Goldsmith
    Irish writer and poet (1728 - 1774)
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  • George Orwell The human beings did not hate Animal Farm any less now that it was prospering; indeed, they hated it more than ever.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Günter Grass The human head is bigger than the globe. It conceives itself as containing more. It can think and rethink itself and ourselves from any desired point outside the gravitational pull of the earth. It starts by writing one thing and later reads itself as something else. The human head is monstrous.
    Günter Grass
    German writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1999) (1927 - 2015)
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  • Arnold J. Toynbee The human race's prospects of survival were considerably better when we were defenceless against tigers than they are today when we have become defenceless against ourselves.
    Arnold J. Toynbee
    British historian and author (1889 - 1975)
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  • William Jennings Bryan The humblest citizen of all the land when clad in the armor of a righteous cause, is stronger than all the hosts of Error.
    William Jennings Bryan
    American orator and politician (1860 - 1925)
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  • Mother Teresa The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.
    Mother Teresa
    Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic nun and missionary (1910 - 1997)
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  • Bernard Bailyn The idea of sovereignty current in the English speaking world of the 1760's was scarcely more than a century old. It had first emerged during the English Civil War, in the early 1640's, and had been established as a canon of Whig political thought in the Revolution of 1688.
    The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution Ch. V, TRANSFORMATION, p. 198
    Bernard Bailyn
    American historian, author, and academic (1922 - 2020)
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  • Billy Corgan The ideology of the Smashing Pumpkins was ultimately more valuable than the music of the Smashing Pumpkins. That's what critics can't put their finger on.
    Billy Corgan
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1967 - )
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  • Ezra Pound The Image is more than an idea. It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas and is endowed with energy.
    Ezra Pound
    American poet (1885 - 1972)
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