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  • Voltaire If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him.
    Original: Si Dieu n'existait pas, il faudrait l'inventer."
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • Meister Eckhart If God gave the soul his whole creation she would not be filled thereby but only with himself.
    Meister Eckhart
    German mystic (1260 - 1328)
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  • Jonathan Swift If men of wit and genius would resolve never to complain in their works of critics and detractors, the next age would not know that they ever had any.
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • Joseph Addison If men would consider not so much wherein they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Sun Tzu If our soldiers are not overburdened with money, it is not because they have a distaste for riches; if their lives are not unduly long, it is not because they are disinclined to longevity.
    Sun Tzu
    Chinese general and strategist (544 - 496)
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  • Carl Sagan If we continue to accumulate only power and not wisdom, we will surely destroy ourselves.
    Ann Druyan (2011) 354
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Bayard Rustin If we desire a society of peace, then we cannot achieve such a society through violence. If we desire a society without discrimination, then we must not discriminate against anyone in the process of building this society. If we desire a society that is democratic, then democracy must become a means as well as an end.
    Bayard Rustin
    American activist (1912 - 1987)
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  • John Bunyan If we have not quiet in our minds, outward comfort will do no more for us than a golden slipper on a gouty foot.
    John Bunyan
    British writer (1628 - 1688)
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  • Joseph Addison If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Henry David Thoreau If we were left solely to the wordy wit of legislators in Congress for our guidance, uncorrected by the seasonal experience and the effectual complaints of the people, America would not long retain her rank among the nations.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Benjamin Disraeli If you are not very clever, you should be conciliatory.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Jean Paul Getty If you can actually count your money, then you're not a rich man.
    Jean Paul Getty
    American-born British industrialist, founder of Getty Oil Company (1892 - 1976)
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  • Virginia Woolf If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Epictetus If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit; give it nothing which may tend to its increase.
    Epictetus
    Roman philosopher (50 - 130)
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  • Ben Hardy If you express yourself too much. you're overacting; if you underplay it too much, it can come across as wooden.
    Ben Hardy
    British actor (1991 - )
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  • Buddha If you knew what I know about the power of giving, you would not let a single meal pass without sharing it in some way.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • Sun Tzu If you know the enemy and know yourself you need not fear the results of a hundred battles.
    Sun Tzu
    Chinese general and strategist (544 - 496)
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  • Peter Cochrane Imagine a school with children that can read or write, but with teachers who can not, and you have a metaphor of the Information Age in which we live.
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  • Carl Clinton Van Doren In fiction, too, after the death of Cooper the main tendency for nearly a generation was away from the conquest of new borders to the closer cultivation, east of the Mississippi, of ground already marked.
    Carl Clinton Van Doren
    American critic and biographer (1885 - 1980)
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  • Carl Sandburg In the average newspaper there is not a complete suppression of stories that the sacred cows don't want printed. But rather what happens is that the stories get printed with stresses, colorations and emphasis that favor the sacred cows.
    Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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