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  • G.W.F. Hegel We may affirm absolutely that nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion.
    G.W.F. Hegel
    German philosopher (1770 - 1831)
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  • Herman Melville We may have civilized bodies and yet barbarous souls. We are blind to the real sights of this world; deaf to its voice; and dead to its death. And not till we know, that one grief outweighs ten thousand joys will we become what Christianity is striving to make us.
    Herman Melville
    American author (1819 - 1891)
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  • George Sheehan We may think there is willpower involved, but more likely… change is due to want power. Wanting the new addiction more than the old one. Wanting the new me in preference to the person I am now.
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  • Adrienne Rich We might possess every technological resource... but if our language is inadequate, our vision remains formless, our thinking and feeling are still running in the old cycles, our process may be 'revolutionary' but not transformative.
    Adrienne Rich
    American Poet (1929 - 2012)
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  • Bernhard von Bulow We must also win really sufficient and, above all, practical, guarantees for the freedom of the seas and for the further fulfilment of our economic and political tasks throughout the world.
    Bernhard von Bulow
    German diplomat and politician (1849 - 1929)
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  • Harry S. Truman We must build a new world, a far better world - one in which the eternal dignity of man is respected.
    Harry S. Truman
    American president (1884 - 1972)
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  • A. Philip Randolph We must develop huge demonstrations, because the world is used to big dramatic affairs. They think in terms of hundreds of thousands and millions and billions... Billions of dollars are appropriated at the twinkling of an eye. Nothing little counts.
    A. Philip Randolph
    American labor unionist and civil rights activist (1889 - 1979)
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  • Ban Ki-moon We must eliminate all nuclear weapons in order to eliminate the grave risk they pose to our world. This will require persistent efforts by all countries and peoples. A nuclear war would affect everyone, and all have a stake in preventing this nightmare.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Bob Taft We must ensure our system of higher education offers world-class quality for a world-class economy.
    Bob Taft
    American politician and attorney (1942 - )
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  • George Bernard Shaw We must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe We must not take the faults of our youth with us into old age, for age brings along its own defects.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Graham Greene We mustn't complain too much of being comedians - it's an honorable profession. If only we could be good ones the world might gain at least a sense of style. We have failed - that's all. We are bad comedians, we aren't bad men.
    Graham Greene
    English writer (1904 - 1991)
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  • Bernie Sanders We need an energy revolution by breaking our dependence on fossil fuels, polluting fuels... I am very, very confident our small state will lead this. We will be noticed by the country and the world.
    Bernie Sanders
    American politician (1941 - )
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  • Daniel J. Boorstin We need not be theologians to see that we have shifted responsibility for making the world interesting from God to the newspaperman.
    Daniel J. Boorstin
    American historian (1914 - 2004)
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  • Betty Williams We need to assure that we are nurturing our children and meeting their every need in this violent world.
    Betty Williams
    Irish activist (1943 - 2020)
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  • Bill Shuster We need to enact a strong standard that will stop a terrorist or illegal alien from getting a driver's license because border security is a major concern in a post-September 11th world.
    Bill Shuster
    American politician and lobbyist (1961 - )
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  • Charles F. Kettering We need to teach the highly educated man that it is not a disgrace to fail and that he must analyze every failure to find its cause. He must learn how to fail intelligently, for failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.
    Charles F. Kettering
    American inventor (1876 - 1958)
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  • Ben Okri We never think that our mothers will die. It was like suddenly an abyss opened at my feet - I was standing on nothing. It was the strangest thing. Her passing away ripped the solidity out of the world.
    Ben Okri
    Nigerian poet and novelist (1959 - )
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  • Sir James Matthew Barrie We never understand how little we need in this world until we know the loss of it.
    Sir James Matthew Barrie
    British playwright (1860 - 1937)
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  • Mark Twain We owe a deep debt of gratitude to Adam, the first great benefactor of the human race: he brought death into the world.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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