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  • Søren Kierkegaard People commonly travel the world over to see rivers and mountains, new stars, garish birds, freak fish, grotesque breeds of human; they fall into an animal stupor that gapes at existence and they think they have seen something.
    Søren Kierkegaard
    Danish philosopher (1813 - 1855)
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  • Mahatma Gandhi Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe A distracted existence leads us to no goal.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Samuel Huntington The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.
    The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order (1996) p. 51
    Samuel Huntington
    American political scientist (1927 - 2008)
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  • B. R. Ambedkar Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence.
    B. R. Ambedkar
    Indian jurist, economist and politician (1891 - 1956)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche Existence really is an imperfect tense that never becomes a present.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Anatole France Existence would be intolerable if we were never to dream.
    Anatole France
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1921) (1844 - 1924)
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  • Mahatma Gandhi I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills. All I have done is to try experiments in both on as vast a scale as I could.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • Harold S. Geneen It is much more difficult to measure non-performance than performance. Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Non-performance can almost always be explained away.
    Harold S. Geneen
    American Accountant, Industrialist, CEO, ITT (1910 - 1997)
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  • Buddha Never in this world can hatred be stilled by hatred; it will be stilled only by non-hatred - this is the law of eternal.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • Hannah Arendt No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has determined the very existence of politics, the cause of freedom versus tyranny.
    Hannah Arendt
    German-born American political theorist (1906 - 1975)
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  • Franklin D. Roosevelt No democracy can long survive which does not accept as fundamental to its very existence the recognition of the rights of minorities.
    Franklin D. Roosevelt
    American statesman (1882 - 1945)
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  • Bell Hooks No other group in America has so had their identity socialized out of existence as have black women... When black people are talked about the focus tends to be on black men; and when women are talked about the focus tends to be on white women.
    Bell Hooks
    American author, professor, feminist (born G.J.Watkins) (1952 - 2021)
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  • Jose Ortega Y Gasset The difficulties which I meet with in order to realize my existence are precisely what awaken and mobilize my activities, my capacities.
    Jose Ortega Y Gasset
    Spanish writer and philosopher (1883 - 1955)
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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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  • Ayn Rand There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: the fashionable non-conformist.
    Ayn Rand
    Russian Writer, Philosopher (1905 - 1982)
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  • Eric Hoffer There is a totalitarian regime inside every one of us. We are ruled by a ruthless politburo which sets our norms and drives us from one five-year plan to another. The autonomous individual who has to justify his existence by his own efforts is in eternal bondage to himself.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Dietrich Bonhoeffer A god who let us prove his existence would be an idol.
    Dietrich Bonhoeffer
    German church leader and resistance fighter (1906 - 1945)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Milan Kundera A novel that does not uncover a hitherto unknown segment of existence is immoral. Knowledge is the novel's only morality.
    Milan Kundera
    Tsjech writer and criticus (1929 - 2023)
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