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  • David Lehman There is an air of last things, a brooding sense of impending annihilation, about so much deconstructive activity, in so many of its guises; it is not merely postmodernist but preapocalyptic.
    David Lehman
     
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  • Bhumibol Adulyadej There is an English saying that the king is always happy, or, 'happy as the king' - which is not true at all. But I can be as happy as a king if all of you know what is right and what is wrong and cooperate to fix things.
    Bhumibol Adulyadej
    Thai King (1927 - 2016)
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  • Bruce Bueno de Mesquita There is an interesting interplay between power corrupting and corruption empowering. The causality does not go one way.
    Bruce Bueno de Mesquita
    American political scientist (1946 - )
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  • Alexis de Tocqueville There is hardly a pioneer's hut which does not contain a few odd volumes of Shakespeare. I remember reading the feudal drama of Henry V for the first time in a log cabin.
    Alexis de Tocqueville
    French aristocrat, political philosopher and sociologist (1805 - 1859)
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  • Charles Horton Cooley There is hardly any one so insignificant that he does not seem imposing to some one at some time.
    Charles Horton Cooley
    American sociologist (1864 - 1929)
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  • Ben Hecht There is hardly one in three of us who live in the cities who is not sick with unused self.
    Ben Hecht
    American writer, playwright (1894 - 1964)
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  • Arthur C. Clarke There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags do not wave in a vacuum.
    Arthur C. Clarke
    British science fiction writer, science writer and futurist (1917 - 2008)
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  • Benjamin N. Cardozo There is in each of us a stream of tendency, whether you choose to call it philosophy or not, which gives coherence and direction to thought and action. Judges cannot escape that current any more than other mortals.
    Benjamin N. Cardozo
    American lawyer and jurist (1870 - 1938)
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  • Sir John Bowring There is in every human heart Some not completely barren part, Where seeds of truth and love might grow, And flowers of generous virtue flow; To plant, to watch, to water there, This be our duty, be our care.
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  • Norman Douglas There is in us a lyric germ or nucleus which deserves respect; it bids a man to ponder or create; and in this dim corner of himself he can take refuge and find consolations which the society of his fellow creatures does not provide.
    Norman Douglas
    British Author (1868 - 1952)
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  • Virginia Woolf There is much to support the view that it is clothes that wear us, and not we, them; we may make them take the mould of arm or breast, but they mould our hearts, our brains, our tongues to their liking.
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Thomas Hobbes There is no action of man in this life which is not the beginning of so long a chain of consequences, as that no human providence is high enough to give us a prospect to the end.
    Source: Leviathan ch. 31
    Thomas Hobbes
    British philosopher (1588 - 1679)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson There is no beautifier of complexion or form of behavior like the wish to scatter joy, and not pain, around us.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Toni Morrison There is no civilization that did not begin with art, Whether it was drawing a line in the sand, painting a cave or dancing.
    Toni Morrison
    American novelist, essayist, editor (1931 - 2019)
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  • Francis Bacon There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.

    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe There is no crime of which I do not deem myself capable.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • George Eliot There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld There is no disguise that can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • La Rochefoucauld There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.
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  • Arthur Schopenhauer There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome -to be got over.
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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