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  • Billy Baldwin Evergreen had opened up a whole new world to me. There I met many internationally celebrated people: there I was surrounded by the best art and music, as well as conversation. I knew I could never return to the life I had led before.
    Billy Baldwin
    American actor and writer
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  • Charles Dickens Every baby born into the world is a finer one than the last.
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Every burned book enlightens the world.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Every burned book or house enlightens the world; every suppressed or expunged word reverberates through the earth from side to side.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Samuel Huntington Every civilization sees itself as the center of the world and writes its history as the central drama of human history.
    The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order (1996)
    Samuel Huntington
    American political scientist (1927 - 2008)
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  • David Herbert Lawrence Every civilization when it loses its inner vision and its cleaner energy, falls into a new sort of sordidness, more vast and more stupendous than the old savage sort. An Augean stable of metallic filth.
    David Herbert Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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  • Henry David Thoreau Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but religiously follows the new.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Every great and commanding movement in the annals of the world is due to the triumph of enthusiasm. Nothing great was ever achieved without it.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Cesare Pavese Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in the world.
    Cesare Pavese
    Italian writer and poet (1908 - 1950)
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  • Ayn Rand Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice.
    Ayn Rand
    Russian Writer, Philosopher (1905 - 1982)
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  • Jonathan Swift Every man desires to live long, but no man would be old.
    Thoughts on Various Subjects from Miscellanies (1711-1726)
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • James Russell Lowell Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.
    James Russell Lowell
    American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat (1819 - 1891)
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  • William Saroyan Every man in the world is better than someone else and not as good someone else.
    William Saroyan
    Armenian-American novelist, playwright, and writer (1908 - 1981)
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  • Arthur Schopenhauer Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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  • Agatha Christie Every murderer is probably somebody's old friend.
    The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1920)
    Agatha Christie
    British writer (1890 - 1976)
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  • Simone Weil Every new development for the last three centuries has brought men closer to a state of affairs in which absolutely nothing would be recognized in the whole world as possessing a claim to obedience except the authority of the State. The majority of people in Europe obey nothing else.
    Simone Weil
    French philosopher (1909 - 1943)
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  • Paul Auster Every novel is an equal collaboration between the writer and the reader and it is the only place in the world where two strangers can meet on terms of absolute intimacy.
    Paul Auster
    American writer and film (1947 - )
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  • Horace Every old poem is sacred.
    Horace
    Roman poet
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  • Jonathan Swift Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • Ben Carson Every person is endowed with God-given abilities, and we must cultivate every ounce of talent we have in order to maintain our pinnacle position in the world.
    Ben Carson
    American politician, and author (1951 - )
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