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  • Benjamin Disraeli No affection and a great brain, these are the people to command the world.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Aneurin Bevan No amount of cajolery, and no attempts at ethical or social seduction, can eradicate from my heart a deep burning hatred for the Tory Party. So far as I am concerned they are lower than vermin.
    Aneurin Bevan
    British Labor politician (1897 - 1960)
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  • Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh No armies are needed, no weapons are needed, no nations are needed, no religions are needed. All that is needed is a little meditativeness, a little silence, a little love, a little more humanity... just a little more, and existence will become fragrant with something so totally unique and new that you will have to find a new category for it.
    Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
    Indian godman and mystic (1931 - 1990)
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  • John Ruskin No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • William S. Burroughs No atomic physicist has to worry, people will always want to kill other people on a mass scale. Sure, he's got the fridge full of sausages and spring water.
    William S. Burroughs
    American writer and artist (1914 - 1997)
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  • Jean Paul No author can be as moral as his work and no preacher as pious as his sermons.
    Jean Paul
    German poet (ps. by Johann P.F. Richter) (1763 - 1825)
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  • William Shakespeare No beast so fierce but knows some touch of pity. But I know none, and therefore am no beast.
    Source: Richard III 1, 2
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • C. S. Lewis No Christian and, indeed, no historian could accept the epigram which defines religion as 'what a man does with his solitude.
    Source: The Weight of Glory
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Winston Churchill No comment is a splendid expression. I am using it again and again.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Barry Lopez No culture has yet solved the dilemma each has faced with the growth of a conscious mind: how to live a moral and compassionate existence when one is fully aware of the blood, the horror inherent in all life, when one finds darkness not only in one's own culture but within oneself... There are simply no answers to some of the great pressing questions. You continue to live them out, making your life a worthy expression of a leaning into the light.
    Source: Arctic Dreams
    Barry Lopez
    American author (1945 - )
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  • Barbara Ehrenreich No culture on earth outside of mid-century suburban America has ever deployed one woman per child without simultaneously assigning her such major productive activities as weaving, farming, gathering, temple maintenance, and tent-building. The reason is that full-time, one-on-one child-raising is not good for women or children.
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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  • Boris Pasternak No deep and strong feeling, such as we may come across here and there in the world, is unmixed with compassion. The more we love, the more the object of our love seems to us to be a victim.
    Boris Pasternak
    Russian writer (1890 - 1960)
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  • Thomas Henry Huxley No delusion is greater than the notion that method and industry can make up for lack of mother-wit, either in science or in practical life.
    Thomas Henry Huxley
    English biologist (1825 - 1895)
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  • George Orwell No doubt alcohol, tobacco, and so forth, are things that a saint must avoid; but sainthood is also a thing that human beings must avoid.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Albert Claude No doubt, man will continue to weigh and to measure, watch himself grow, and his Universe around him and with him, according to the ever growing powers of his tools.
    Albert Claude
    Belgian-American cell biologist and doctor (1899 - 1983)
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  • P. J. O'Rourke No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the sources of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.
    P. J. O'Rourke
    American journalist (1947 - )
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  • Ben Bernanke No economy can succeed without a high-quality workforce, particularly in an age of globalization and technical change.
    Ben Bernanke
    American economist (1953 - )
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  • Calvin Coolidge No enterprise can exist for itself alone. It ministers to some great need, it performs some great service, not for itself, but for others; or failing therein, it ceases to be profitable and ceases to exist.
    Calvin Coolidge
    American president (1872 - 1933)
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  • St. Augustine of Hippo No eulogy is due to him who simply does his duty and nothing more.
    St. Augustine of Hippo
    Roman African Christian theologian and philosopher (354 - 430)
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  • George Eliot No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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