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  • Brene Brown The best marriages are the ones where we can go out in the world and really put ourselves out there. A lot of times we'll fail, and sometimes we'll pull it off. But good marriages are when you can go home and know that your vulnerability will be honored as courage, and that you'll find support.
    Brene Brown
    American professor, lecturer, author (1965 - )
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  • Walter Bagehot The best reason why Monarchy is a strong government is, that it is an intelligible government. The mass of mankind understand it, and they hardly anywhere in the world understand any other.
    Walter Bagehot
    English economist (1826 - 1877)
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  • George Bernard Shaw The best reformers the world has ever seen
    are those who commence on themselves.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Red Auerbach The best way to forget ones self is to look at the world with attention and love.
    Red Auerbach
    American basketball coach of the Washington Capitols, the Tri-Cities B (1917 - 2006)
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  • Shirley MacLaine The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
    Shirley MacLaine
    American actress, singer and author (1934 - )
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  • Ann Bancroft The best way to get most husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they're too old to do it.
    Ann Bancroft
    American author, teacher, adventurer (1955 - )
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  • Oliver Goldsmith The best way to please one half of the world is not to mind, what the other half says.
    Oliver Goldsmith
    Irish writer and poet (1728 - 1774)
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  • James Baldwin The betrayal of a belief is not the same thing as ceasing to believe. If this were not so there would be no moral standards in the world at all.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Brendan Behan The Bible was a consolation to a fellow alone in the old cell. The lovely thin paper with a bit of matress stuffing in it, if you could get a match, was as good a smoke as I ever tasted.
    Brendan Behan
    Irish poet, short story writer, novelist and playwright (1923 - 1964)
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  • Michael Korda The biggest fool in the world is he who merely does his work supremely well, without attending to appearance.
    Michael Korda
    American publisher (1933 - )
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  • John Maynard Keynes The biggest problem is not to let people accept new ideas, but to let them forget the old ones.
    John Maynard Keynes
    British economist (1883 - 1946)
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  • Atal Bihari Vajpayee The Bio-diversity Convention has not yielded any tangible benefits to the world's poor.
    Atal Bihari Vajpayee
    Indian statesman (1924 - 2018)
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  • Adam Clayton Powell The black man continues on his way. He plods wearily no longer - he is striding freedom road with the knowledge that if he hasn't got the world in a jug, at least he has the stopper in his hand.
    Adam Clayton Powell
    American politician and pastor (1908 - 1972)
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  • Germaine Greer The blind conviction that we have to do something about other people's reproductive behavior, and that we may have to do it whether they like it or not, derives from the assumption that the world belongs to us, who have so expertly depleted its resources, rather than to them, who have not.
    Germaine Greer
    Australian writer and public intellectual (1939 - )
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  • Leonard Cohen The blizzard of the world has crossed the threshold and it's overturned the order of the soul...
    Leonard Cohen
    Canadian-born American Musician, Songwriter, Singer (1934 - 2016)
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  • Oscar Wilde The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • George Grosz The bourgeoisie and the petty bourgeoisie have armed themselves against the rising proletariat with, among other things, ''culture.'' It's an old ploy of the bourgeoisie. They keep a standing ''art'' to defend their collapsing culture.
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  • Buenaventura Durruti The bourgeoisie might blast and ruin its own world before it leaves the stage of history.
    Buenaventura Durruti
    Spanish insurrectionary, anarcho-syndicalist militant (1896 - 1936)
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  • Al Sharpton The boxing world is full of all kinds of corruption.
    Al Sharpton
    American civil rights activist, Baptist minister and talk show host (1954 - )
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  • Raymond Chandler The boys with their feet on the desks know that the easiest murder case in the world to break is the one somebody tried to get very cute with; the one that really bothers them is the murder somebody only thought of two minutes before he pulled it off.
    Raymond Chandler
    American writer (1888 - 1959)
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