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  • Assata Shakur To become free, you have to be acutely aware of being a slave.
    Assata: An Autobiography (1987)
    Assata Shakur
    American activist and former member of the Black Liberation Army (BLA) (1947 - )
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  • Cary Fowler To begin with, I've always known that I was a little bit different. And, I have a lot of relatives who own farms. I grew up in the American South where political issues and issues of justice were at the forefront. What I do now is a combination of all these factors.
    Cary Fowler
    American agriculturalist and businessman (1949 - )
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  • Carly Fiorina To build a great company, which is a CEO's job, sometimes you have to stand up against conventional wisdom.
    Carly Fiorina
    American businesswoman and political (1954 - )
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  • Andrew Cohen To campaign against colonialism is like barking up a tree that has already been cut down.
    Andrew Cohen
    American spiritual teacher (1955 - )
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  • Peter Nivio Zarlenga To come to be you must have a vision of Being, a Dream, a Purpose, a Principle. You will become what your vision is.
    Peter Nivio Zarlenga
    American businessman, founder of Blockbuster Videos
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  • Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle To despise theory is to have the excessively vain pretension to do without knowing what one does, and to speak without knowing what one says.
    Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle
    French author (1657 - 1757)
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  • Alfred Rosenberg To destroy images is something every revolution has been able to do.
    Alfred Rosenberg
    German Nazi theorist and ideologue (1893 - 1946)
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  • Philip Massinger To doubt is worse than to have lost; And to despair is but to antedate those miseries that must fall on us.
    Philip Massinger
    English dramatist (1583 - 1640)
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  • W. M. Thackeray To endure is greater than to dare; to tire out hostile fortune; to be daunted by no difficulty; to keep heart when all have lost it; to go through intrigue spotless; to forego even ambition when the end is gained - who can say this is not greatness?
    W. M. Thackeray
    Indian-born, British novelist (1811 - 1863)
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  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know.
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    French writer and philosopher (1712 - 1778)
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  • Virginia Woolf To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Baltasar Gracián To equal a predecessor, one must have twice they worth.
    Baltasar Gracián
    Spanish Jesuit and philosopher (1601 - 1658)
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  • Thomas Paine To establish any mode to abolish war, however advantageous it might be to Nations, would be to take from such Government the most lucrative of its branches.
    Thomas Paine
    English-born American political activist, philosopher, political theor (1737 - 1809)
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  • Bruce Fairchild Barton To every man of vision the clear Voice speaks; there is no great leadership where there is not a mystic. Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside themselves was superior to circumstance. To choose the sure thing is treason to the soul.
    The Man Nobody Knows (1924) On Jesus, in Ch. 1 : The Executive
    Bruce Fairchild Barton
    American author, advertising executive, and politician (1886 - 1967)
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  • E. M. Cioran To exist is equivalent to an act of faith, a protest against the truth, an interminable prayer. As soon as they consent to live, the unbeliever and the man of faith are fundamentally the same, since both have made the only decision that defines a being.
    E. M. Cioran
    French-Romanian philosopher (1911 - 1995)
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  • Carlos Ghosn To face deflation, you have to have people accepting it and not reacting to it.
    Carlos Ghosn
    Brazilian-born businessman (1954 - )
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  • Arthur Schopenhauer To find out your real opinion of someone, judge the impression you have when you first see a letter from them.
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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  • Richard Bach To fly as fast as thought, you must begin by knowing that you have already arrived.
    Jonathan Livingston Seagull
    Richard Bach
    American author (1936 - )
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  • Abraham Kaplan To get at the meaning of a statement the logical positivist asks, What would the world be like if it were true? The operationist asks, What would we have to do to come to believe it? For the pragmatist the question is, What would we do if did believe it?
    The Conduct of Inquiry
    Abraham Kaplan
    American philosopher
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  • Bodhidharma To go from mortal to Buddha, you have to put an end to karma, nurture your awareness, and accept what life brings.
    Bodhidharma
    semi-legendary Buddhist monk
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