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  • William Faulkner The salvation of the world is in man's suffering.
    William Faulkner
    American writer (1897 - 1962)
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  • Vaclav Havel The salvation of this human world lies nowhere else than in the human heart, in the human power to reflect, in human meekness and human responsibility.
    Vaclav Havel
    Czech statesman, writer and former dissident (1936 - 2011)
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  • Italo Calvino The satirist is prevented by repulsion from gaining a better knowledge of the world he is attracted to, yet he is forced by attraction to concern himself with the world that repels him.
    Italo Calvino
    Italian writer (1923 - 1985)
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  • Anthony Trollope The satirist who writes nothing but satire should write but little - or it will seem that his satire springs rather from his own caustic nature than from the sins of the world in which he lives.
    Anthony Trollope
    British writer (1815 - 1882)
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  • Bob Newhart The schizophrenic has no sense of humor. His world is a constantly daunting, unfriendly place.
    Bob Newhart
    American stand-up comedian and actor (1929 - )
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  • Arthur Peacocke The scientific perspective of the world, especially the living world, inexorably impresses on us a dynamic picture of the world of entities and structures involved in continuous and incessant change and in process without ceasing.
    Arthur Peacocke
    English Anglican theologian and biochemist (1924 - 2006)
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  • Adam Clarke The Scriptures of the Old and New Testament, said an eminent scholar, have God for their Author, the Salvation of mankind for their end, and Truth without any mixture of error for their matter.
    Adam Clarke
    British Methodist theologian (1760 - 1832)
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  • William O. Douglas The search for static security - in the law and elsewhere - is misguided. The fact is security can only be achieved through constant change, adapting old ideas that have outlived their usefulness to current facts.
    William O. Douglas
    American jurist and politician (1898 - 1980)
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  • James A. Froude The secret of a person's nature lies in their religion and what they really believes about the world and their place in it.
    James A. Froude
    British Historian (1818 - 1894)
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  • Aldous Huxley The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Richard Harding Davis The secret of good writing is to say an old thing in a new way or to say a new thing in an old way.
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  • Al Capp The secret of how to live without resentment or embarrassment in a world in which I was different from everyone else. was to be indifferent to that difference.
    Al Capp
    American cartoonist and humorist (1909 - 1979)
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  • Philip Roth The secret to living in the rush of the world with a minimum of pain is to get as many people as possible to string along with your delusions.
    The Human Stain (2000)
    Philip Roth
    American Novelist (1933 - 2018)
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  • Carl Romanelli The Senate needs to protect the interests of the American people and the world community, not provide political cover to President Bush. It's not enough to call Saddam Hussein evil incarnate.
    on U.S. Senate hearings into President Bushs planned invasion of Iraq
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  • Juvenal The short bloom of our brief and narrow life flies far away. While we are calling for flowers and wine and woman, old age is upon us.
    Juvenal
    Roman poet
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  • Winston Churchill The short words are best, and the old words are the best of all.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The silence that accepts merit as the most natural thing in the world is the highest applause.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Henry Giles The silent influence of books, is a mighty power in the world; and there is a joy in reading them known only to those who read them with desire and enthusiasm. Silent, passive, and noiseless though they be, they yet set in action countless multitudes, and change the order of nations.
    Henry Giles
    British Unitarian minister and writer (1809 - 1882)
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  • Bode Miller The silver medals I won in Salt Lake City didn't give me anything. Last year I set myself the goal of winning the World Cup and lining up a long series of wins. It was my private challenge.
    Interview with Gazzetta dello Sport, 16 Feb. 2006 [1]
    Bode Miller
    American former World Cup alpine ski racer (1977 - )
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  • Berthold Auerbach The silver-leaved birch retains in its old age a soft bark; there are some such men.
    Berthold Auerbach
    German-Jewish writer and poet (1812 - 1882)
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