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  • Carl von Clausewitz Of all the passions that inspire a man in a battle, none, we have to admit, is so powerful and so constant as the longing for honor and reknown.
    On War (1832)
    Carl von Clausewitz
    Prussian general and military theorist (1780 - 1831)
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  • Anna Garlin Spencer Of all the wastes of human ignorance perhaps the most extravagant and costly to human growth has been the waste of the distinctive powers of womanhood after the child-bearing age.
    Anna Garlin Spencer
    American educator and feminist (1851 - 1931)
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  • William Shakespeare Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, it seems to me most strange that men should fear.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Bertolt Brecht Of all the works of man I like best
    Those which have been used.
    The copper pots with their dents and flattened edges
    The knives and forks whose wooden handles
    Have been worn away by many hands: such forms
    Seemed to me the noblest.
    Poems, 1913-1956 Of all the works of man [Von allen Werken] (c. 193
    Bertolt Brecht
    German - Austrian writer (1898 - 1956)
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  • Bryce Dallas Howard Of course any kind of film process has ups and downs and days where you're stuck and have breakthroughs.
    Bryce Dallas Howard
    American actress and filmmaker (1981 - )
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  • Joan Didion Of course great hotels have always been social ideas, flawless mirrors to the particular societies they service.
    Joan Didion
    American Essayist (1934 - 2021)
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  • Chimamanda Adichie Of course I am not worried about intimidating men. The type of man who will be intimidated by me is exactly the type of man I have no interest in.
    We moeten allemaal feminist zijn (2014)
    Chimamanda Adichie
    Nigerian poet (1977 - )
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  • Bruce Eric Kaplan Of course I loved 'I Love Lucy' and saw every episode over and over again. I found it heartbreaking that Ricky got to be famous and have an exciting life at the Tropicana while Lucy was stuck in that terrible apartment with the Mertzes.
    Bruce Eric Kaplan
    American cartoonist
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  • Thomas Hardy Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them.
    Thomas Hardy
    British writer and poet (1840 - 1928)
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  • Barbara Cartland Of course they have, or I wouldn't be sitting here talking to someone like you.
    Barbara Cartland
    English author of romance novels (1901 - 2000)
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  • A.E. Hotchner Of course we all have our limits, but how can you possibly find your boundaries unless you explore as far and as wide as you possibly can? I would rather fail in an attempt at something new and uncharted than safely succeed in a repeat of something I have done.
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  • W. H. Auden Of course, behaviorism works. So does torture. Give me a no-nonsense, down-to-earth behaviorist, a few drugs, and simple electrical appliances, and in six months I will have him reciting the Athanasian Creed in public.
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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  • Alan Moore Of course, Marxism is an example of what Carl Popper would have called a 'World Three' structure, in that it's got immense power as an idea, but you couldn't actually hold up anything in the world and say: 'this is Marxism'.
    Alan Moore
    English writer (1953 - )
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  • Adolf Galland Of course, the outcome of the war would not have been changed. The war was lost perhaps, when it was started. At least it was lost in the winter of '42, in Russia.
    Adolf Galland
    German Luftwaffe general (1912 - 1996)
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  • Barack Obama Of course, there is no question that Libya - and the world - will be better off with Gaddafi out of power. I, along with many other world leaders, have embraced that goal, and will actively pursue it through non-military means. But broadening our military mission to include regime change would be a mistake.
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Arsene Wenger Of course, we also have the responsibility to win games and the difficulty in the job is to combine both.
    Arsene Wenger
    French football manager and former player (1949 - )
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  • Aeschylus Of prosperity mortals can never have enough.
    Aeschylus
    Greek dramatist (525 - 456)
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  • William Morris Of rich men it telleth, and strange is the story how they have, and they hanker, and grip far and wide; And they live and they die, and the earth and its glory has been but a burden they scarce might abide.
    William Morris
    British artist, writer (1834 - 1896)
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  • Leon Edel Of the creative spirits that flourished in Concord, Massachusetts, during the middle of the nineteenth century, it might be said that Hawthorne loved men but felt estranged from them, Emerson loved ideas even more than men, and Thoreau loved himself.
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  • John W. Draper Of the events of life we may have some control. but over the law of its progress none.
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