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  • Oscar Wilde Thinking is the most unhealthy thing in the world, and people die of it just as they die of any other disease. Fortunately, in England at any rate, thought is not catching. Our splendid physique as a people is entirely due to our national stupidity.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • John Vanbrugh Thinking is to me the greatest fatique in the world.
    Source: The relapse
    John Vanbrugh
    English architect and dramatist (1664 - 1726)
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  • Bill Clinton This ceremony is held in the depth of winter. But, by the words we speak and the faces we show the world, we force the spring.
    Source: Inaugural Address, 20 January 1993
    Bill Clinton
    President of the US (1946 - )
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  • Byron Dorgan This country is about, in my judgment, aggressive, open debate. There is an old saying: When everyone is thinking the same thing, no one is thinking very much.
    Byron Dorgan
    American author, businessman (1942 - )
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  • Arthur Erickson This great, though disastrous, culture can only change as we begin to stand off and see... the inveterate materialism which has become the model for cultures around the world.
    Arthur Erickson
    Canadian architect and urban (1924 - 2009)
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  • Biz Stone This idea that the open exchange of information can have a positive global impact is being proven over and over again around the world nearly on a daily basis - and for Secretary Clinton to recognize that, I think, is a huge step.
    Biz Stone
    American entrepreneur (1974 - )
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  • Bill Gates This is a fantastic time to be entering the business world, because business is going to change more in the next 10 years than it has in the last 50.
    Bill Gates
    American business magnate, investor, author and philanthropist (1955 - )
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  • Barry Diller This is a world in which reasons are made up because reality is too painful.
    Barry Diller
    American businessman (1942 - )
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  • Charles Dickens This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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  • Billy Corgan This is not a reaction against a negative world. It's a response to a negative world.
    Source: regarding Adore, Guitar World. July 1998
    Billy Corgan
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1967 - )
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  • Arthur Henderson This is our world, and we must make the best of it.
    Arthur Henderson
    British Labour politician
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  • Richard Nixon This is the greatest week in the history of the world since the Creation, because as a result of what happened in this week, the world is bigger, infinitely.
    Richard Nixon
    American president (1913 - 1994)
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  • Ban Ki-moon This is the moral challenge of our generation. Not only are the eyes of the world upon us. More important, succeeding generations depend on us. We cannot rob our children of their future.
    Source: Speech at Bali climate change conference (2007)
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • T. S. Eliot This is the way the world ends. Not with a bang but a whimper.
    T. S. Eliot
    British essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic (1888 - 1965)
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  • Bertolt Brecht This is the year which people will talk about
    This is the year which people will be silent about. The old see the young die.
    The foolish see the wise die. The earth no longer produces, it devours.
    The sky hurls down no rain, only iron.
    Source: Poems, 1913-1956 Finland 1940 [Finnland 1940] (1940), trans. Sammy
    Bertolt Brecht
    German - Austrian writer (1898 - 1956)
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  • Bobby Bonilla This is what you work for, putting all the other crap that you hear aside. Just being able to participate in a World Series is pretty much everything. But you do want to win!
    Bobby Bonilla
    American Major League Baseball player (1963 - )
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  • Bob Dylan This land is your land and this land is my land, sure, but the world is run by those that never listen to music anyway.
    Bob Dylan
    American musician (1941 - )
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  • Salman Rushdie This paranoid Islam, which blames outsider, 'infidels', for all the ills of Muslim societies, and whose proposed remedy is the closing of those societies to the rival project of modernity, is presently the fastest growing version of Islam in the world.
    Source: NY Times 2-11-2001 Yes, This Is About Islam
    Salman Rushdie
    Engels writer (1947 - )
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  • Aldous Huxley This really revolutionary revolution is to be achieved, not in the external world, but in the souls and flesh of human beings.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • D. H. Lawrence This sea will never die, neither will it ever grow old, nor cease to be blue, nor in the dawn cease to lift up its hills and let the slim black ship of Dionysos come sailing in with grapevines up the mast.
    Source: Middle of the World (1929)
    D. H. Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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