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  • Bill Cosby The main goal of the future is to stop violence. The world is addicted to it.
    Bill Cosby
    American actor, comedian, producer (1937 - )
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  • Alfred A. Montapert The main source of our wealth is goodness. The affections and the generous qualities that God admires in a world full of greed.
    Alfred A. Montapert
    American writer
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  • Bill Dedman The main threads running through the lives of W. A. Clark and his daughter Huguette include the costs of ambition, the burdens of inherited wealth, the fragility of reputation, the folly of judging someone's life from the outside, and the tension between engaging with the world, with all its risks, and keeping a safe distance from danger.
    Bill Dedman
    American journalist (1960 - )
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  • Oscar Wilde The man who can dominate a London dinner-table can dominate the world.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • B. C. Forbes The man who has done his level best, and who is conscious that he has done his best, is a success, even though the world may write him down as a failure.
    B. C. Forbes
    American Publisher (1880 - 1954)
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  • Alexander Smith The man who in this world can keep the whiteness of his soul is not likely to lose it in any other.
    Alexander Smith
    Scottish Poet, Author (1829 - 1867)
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  • Henry S. Naskins The man who is too old to learn was probably always too old to learn.
    Meditations in Wall Street (1940)
    Henry S. Naskins
    American stock trader and aphorism writer (1875 - 1957)
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  • Bob Greene The meat-and-potatoes work of world journalism is performed by the wire service reporters.
    Bob Greene
    American journalist and author (1947 - )
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  • Billy Graham The men who followed Him were unique in their generation. They turned the world upside down because their hearts had been turned right side up. The world has never been the same.
    Billy Graham
    American Evangelist (1918 - 2018)
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  • Charles Dickens The men who learn endurance are those who call the whole world brother.
    Barnaby Rudge
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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  • Logan Pearsall Smith The mere process of growing old together will make the slightest acquaintance seem a bosom friend.
    Logan Pearsall Smith
    English writer (1865 - 1946)
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  • Carl Schmitt The metaphysical image that a definite epoch forges of the world has the same structure as what the world immediately understands to be appropriate as a form of its political organization.
    Political Theology (1922)
    Carl Schmitt
    German political philosopher and legal scholar (1888 - 1985)
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  • Sean O'Casey The military mind is indeed a menace. Old-fashioned futurity that sees only men fighting and dying in smoke and fire; hears nothing more civilized than a cannonade; scents nothing but the stink of battle-wounds and blood.
    Sean O'Casey
    Irish Dramatist (1880 - 1964)
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  • Ban Ki-moon The Millennium Development Goals were a pledge to uphold the principles of human dignity, equality and equity, and free the world from extreme poverty. The MDGs, with eight goals and a set of measurable time-bound targets, established a blueprint for tackling the most pressing development challenges of our time.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Benjamin Robbins Curtis The mind as well as the body must be not only strong but well disciplined in order to act with promptness and vigor in new and untried situations. It is hard to turn men's minds from the old and deeply worn channels in which they have long been flowing.
    Benjamin Robbins Curtis
    American attorney (1809 - 1874)
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  • Colin Wilson The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.
    Colin Wilson
    British writer (1931 - 2013)
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  • William James The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Charles Caleb Colton The mistakes of the fool are known to the world, but not to himself. The mistakes of the wise man are known to himself, but not to the world.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Barry Commoner The modern assault on the environment began about 50 years ago, during and immediately after World War II.
    Barry Commoner
    American cellular biologist, college professor, and politician (1917 - 2012)
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  • Albert Camus The modern mind is in complete disarray. Knowledge has stretched itself to the point where neither the world nor our intelligence can find any foot-hold. It is a fact that we are suffering from nihilism.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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