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  • Bertrand Russell Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Stendhal A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.
    Stendhal
    French writer (ps. of Marie Henri Beyle) (1783 - 1842)
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  • William Butler Yeats Good conversation unrolls itself like the spring or like the dawn.
    William Butler Yeats
    Irish poet (1865 - 1939)
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  • Carl Clinton Van Doren In fiction, too, after the death of Cooper the main tendency for nearly a generation was away from the conquest of new borders to the closer cultivation, east of the Mississippi, of ground already marked.
    Carl Clinton Van Doren
    American critic and biographer (1885 - 1980)
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  • John Donne No man is an island entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main.
    John Donne
    English poet (1572 - 1631)
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  • Boz Scaggs This is a cause that musicians can take to heart because one of our main reasons for being is to share our music with other people, and this takes us to people who probably wouldn't otherwise get to hear music on quite this level.
    Boz Scaggs
    American singer, songwriter, and guitarist (1944 - )
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  • Ben Shapiro 'The Butler' has virtually nothing in common with its source material, the life of White House butler Gene Allen, except for the fact that the main character of the film and Allen were both black butlers in the White House.
    Ben Shapiro
    American conservative political commentator and attorney (1984 - )
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  • Carroll Quigley ...the nineteenth century Age of Expansion... brought on an acceleration of the main focus of the activities of society... from the areas of internal controls to the areas of external controls....the increasing role of propaganda... helped create an impression of stability.
    Oscar Iden Lecture Series, Lecture 3: The State of Individuals (1976)
    Carroll Quigley
    American historian and theorist (1910 - 1977)
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  • Leonardo Da Vinci A good painter is to paint two main things, men and the working of man's mind.
    Leonardo Da Vinci
    Italian painter, engineer and musician (1452 - 1519)
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  • Eric Hoffer A heresy can spring only from a system that is in full vigor.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Chuck Noll A life of frustration is inevitable for any coach whose main enjoyment is winning.
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  • Alexander Pope A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring; There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain; And drinking largely sobers us again.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Alexander Pope A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Walter Lippmann A useful definition of liberty is obtained only by seeking the principle of liberty in the main business of human life, that is to say, in the process by which men educate their responses and learn to control their environment.
    Walter Lippmann
    American writer, reporter, and political commentator (1889 - 1974)
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  • A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada Actually, it doesn't matter - Krishna or Christ - the name is the same. The main point is to follow the injunctions of the Vedic scriptures that recommend chanting the name of God in this age.
    Bhaktivedanta Vedabase (2003)
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  • Bryan Cogman After we map out all the main characters' individual arcs, using color-coded index cards, we arrange them by episode and get a rough idea of the scene order.
    Bryan Cogman
    American writer and producer (1979 - )
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  • Jean de la Bruyère All men's misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone.
    Jean de la Bruyère
    French writer (1645 - 1696)
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  • Daniel Defoe All our discontents about what we want appeared to me to spring from the want of thankfulness for what we have.
    Robinson Crusoe (1719)
    Daniel Defoe
    English writer (1660 - 1731)
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  • Arthur Schopenhauer Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people.
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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  • Bayard Taylor Ancient Pines, Ye bear no record of the years of man. Spring is your sole historian.
    Bayard Taylor
    American poet, travel author, and diplomat (1825 - 1878)
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