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  • Rabindranath Tagore Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.
    Rabindranath Tagore
    Indian mystic and poet (1861 - 1941)
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  • Geoffrey F. Abert When you take charge of your life, there is no longer need to ask permission of other people or society at large. When you ask permission, you give someone veto power over your life.
    Geoffrey F. Abert
    American author
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  • J. G. Ballard The American Dream has run out of gas. The car has stopped. It no longer supplies the world with its images, its dreams, its fantasies. No more. It's over. It supplies the world with its nightmares now: the Kennedy assassination, Watergate, Vietnam...
    J. G. Ballard
    British author (1930 - 2009)
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld Old people love to give good advice to console themselves for no longer being able to set a bad example.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe A purpose you impart is no longer your own.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Mark Twain A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom that he can no longer be lead by the nose.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • James Baldwin But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • E. M. Cioran Show me one thing here on earth which has begun well and not ended badly. The proudest palpitations are engulfed in a sewer, where they cease throbbing, as though having reached their natural term: this downfall constitutes the heart's drama and the negative meaning of history.
    E. M. Cioran
    French-Romanian philosopher (1911 - 1995)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge Advice is like snow; the softer it falls the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind.
    Samuel Taylor Coleridge
    English poet and critic (1772 - 1834)
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  • Jung Chang Although my book is banned I am still allowed to go to China and travel. There is no longer the kind of control that Mao used to have-there have been deep fundamental changes in society.
    Jung Chang
    Chinese-born British writer (1952 - )
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  • Nelson Mandela Communists have always played an active role in the fight by colonial countries for their freedom, because the short-term objects of Communism would always correspond with the long-term objects of freedom movements.
    Nelson Mandela
    South African anti-apartheid revolutionary and political leader (1918 - 2013)
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  • Epicurus Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.
    Epicurus
    Greek Philosopher (341 - 270)
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  • Alfred Marshall In the absence of any short term in common use to represent all desirable things, or things that satisfy human wants, we may use the term Goods for that purpose.
    Alfred Marshall
    British economist (1842 - 1924)
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  • Alfred Marshall In the absence of any short term in common use to represent all desirable things, or things that satisfy human wants, we may use the term Goods for that purpose.
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  • Havelock Ellis Men who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of Wisdom.
    Havelock Ellis
    British psychologist (1859 - 1939)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • John Updike Our brains are no longer conditioned for reverence and awe. We cannot imagine a Second Coming that would not be cut down to size by the televised evening news, or a Last Judgment not subject to pages of holier-than-thou second-guessing in The New York Review of Books.
    John Updike
    American writer and criticus (1932 - 2009)
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  • Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add but when there is no longer anything to take away, when a body has been stripped down to its nakedness.
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    French writer (1900 - 1944)
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  • George Mcgovern The longer the title, the less important the job.
    George Mcgovern
    American historian, author (1922 - 2012)
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