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  • Breyten Breytenbach The predominant yardstick of your government is not human rights but national interests.
    Breyten Breytenbach
    South African writer and painter (1939 - )
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  • Peter F. Drucker The productivity of work is not the responsibility of the worker but of the manager.
    Peter F. Drucker
    American management consultant and writer (1909 - 2005)
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  • Al Sharpton The promise of America is one immigration policy for all who seek to enter our shores, whether they come from Mexico, Haiti or Canada, there must be one set of rules for everybody. We cannot welcome those to come and then try and act as though any culture will not be respected or treated inferior. We cannot look at the Latino community and preach 'one language.' No one gave them an English test before they sent them to Iraq to fight for America.
    Al Sharpton
    American civil rights activist, Baptist minister and talk show host (1954 - )
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  • Voltaire The punishment of criminals should serve a purpose. When a man is hanged he is useless.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • Edward Hoagland The question of whether it's God's green earth is not at center stage, except in the sense that if so, one is reminded with some regularity that He may be dying.
    Edward Hoagland
    American Novelist, Essayist (1932 - )
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  • Confucius The real fault is to have faults and not amend them.
    Confucius
    Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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  • Henry David Thoreau The savage in man is never quite eradicated.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • E. B. White The so-called science of poll-taking is not a science at all but mere necromancy. People are unpredictable by nature, and although you can take a nation's pulse, you can't be sure that the nation hasn't just run up a flight of stairs.
    E. B. White
    American writer (1899 - 1985)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The spirit of our American radicalism is destructive and aimless; it is not loving; it has no ulterior and divine ends; but is destructive only out of hatred and selfishness.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Italo Calvino The struggle of literature is in fact a struggle to escape from the confines of language; it stretches out from the utmost limits of what can be said; what stirs literature is the call and attraction of what is not in the dictionary.
    Italo Calvino
    Italian writer (1923 - 1985)
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  • Confucius The superior man is modest in his speech but exceeds in his actions.
    Confucius
    Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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  • Confucius The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort.
    Confucius
    Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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  • Confucius The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.
    Confucius
    Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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  • Confucius The superior man will watch over himself when he is alone. He examines his heart that there may be nothing wrong there, and that he may have no cause of dissatisfaction with himself.
    Confucius
    Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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  • Abraham Joshua Heschel The supremacy of expediency is being refuted by time and truth. Time is an essential dimension of existence defiant of man's power, and truth reigns in supreme majesty, unrivaled, inimitable, and can never be defeated.
    Who Is Man? (1965)
    Abraham Joshua Heschel
    Polish-American rabbi (1907 - 1972)
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  • Sigmund Freud The tendency of aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man... it constitutes the most powerful obstacle to culture.
    Sigmund Freud
    Austrian psychiatrist (1856 - 1939)
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  • Joseph Rudyard Kipling The Three in One, the One in Three? Not so! To my own Gods I go. It may be they shall give me greater ease than your cold Christ and tangled Trinities.
    Joseph Rudyard Kipling
    English writer (1865 - 1936)
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  • Benjamin E. Mays The tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach.
    Benjamin E. Mays
    American Baptist minister and civil rights leader (1894 - 1984)
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  • W. M. Lewis The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
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  • Bill Copeland The trouble with not having a goal is that you can spend your life running up and down the field and never score.
    Bill Copeland
    American poet, writer and historian (1946 - 2010)
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