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  • Thomas Szasz The many faces of intimacy: the Victorians could experience it through correspondence, but not through cohabitation; contemporary men and women can experience it through fornication, but not through friendship.
    Thomas Szasz
    American psychiatrist (1920 - 2012)
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  • Gustave Flaubert The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.
    Gustave Flaubert
    French writer (1821 - 1880)
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  • Victor Hugo The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.
    Victor Hugo
    French writer (1802 - 1885)
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  • Billy Zane The mug is a tool. My ace in the hole. To have looks is the bonus on top of what motivates me to be an actor. Not to realize they're an asset would be counterproductive to the cause; they serve the common good.
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  • Roland Barthes The New is not a fashion, it is a value.
    Roland Barthes
    French writer, literary critic, linguist and philosopher (1915 - 1980)
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  • John Keats The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothing -to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts. Not a select party.
    John Keats
    English poet (1795 - 1821)
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  • Bernard Mandeville The only thing of weight that can be said against modern honor is that it is directly opposite to religion. The one bids you bear injuries with patience, the other tells you if you don't resent them, you are not fit to live.
    Bernard Mandeville
    British writer and artist (1670 - 1733)
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  • Robert Anthony The opposite of bravery is not cowardice but conformity.
    Robert Anthony
    American psychologist and self-help writer
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  • Breyten Breytenbach The predominant yardstick of your government is not human rights but national interests.
    Breyten Breytenbach
    South African writer and painter (1939 - )
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  • Peter F. Drucker The productivity of work is not the responsibility of the worker but of the manager.
    Peter F. Drucker
    American management consultant and writer (1909 - 2005)
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  • Al Sharpton The promise of America is one immigration policy for all who seek to enter our shores, whether they come from Mexico, Haiti or Canada, there must be one set of rules for everybody. We cannot welcome those to come and then try and act as though any culture will not be respected or treated inferior. We cannot look at the Latino community and preach 'one language.' No one gave them an English test before they sent them to Iraq to fight for America.
    Al Sharpton
    American civil rights activist, Baptist minister and talk show host (1954 - )
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  • Edward Hoagland The question of whether it's God's green earth is not at center stage, except in the sense that if so, one is reminded with some regularity that He may be dying.
    Edward Hoagland
    American Novelist, Essayist (1932 - )
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  • Confucius The real fault is to have faults and not amend them.
    Confucius
    Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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  • E. B. White The so-called science of poll-taking is not a science at all but mere necromancy. People are unpredictable by nature, and although you can take a nation's pulse, you can't be sure that the nation hasn't just run up a flight of stairs.
    E. B. White
    American writer (1899 - 1985)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The spirit of our American radicalism is destructive and aimless; it is not loving; it has no ulterior and divine ends; but is destructive only out of hatred and selfishness.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Italo Calvino The struggle of literature is in fact a struggle to escape from the confines of language; it stretches out from the utmost limits of what can be said; what stirs literature is the call and attraction of what is not in the dictionary.
    Italo Calvino
    Italian writer (1923 - 1985)
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  • Joseph Rudyard Kipling The Three in One, the One in Three? Not so! To my own Gods I go. It may be they shall give me greater ease than your cold Christ and tangled Trinities.
    Joseph Rudyard Kipling
    English writer (1865 - 1936)
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  • Benjamin E. Mays The tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach.
    Benjamin E. Mays
    American Baptist minister and civil rights leader (1894 - 1984)
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  • W. M. Lewis The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
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  • Bill Copeland The trouble with not having a goal is that you can spend your life running up and down the field and never score.
    Bill Copeland
    American poet, writer and historian (1946 - 2010)
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