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  • James Baldwin Any real change implies the breakup of the world as one has always known it, the loss of all that gave one an identity, the end of safety.
    Source: Nobody Knows My Name (1961)
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Henry Ford Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.
    Henry Ford
    American industrialist (1863 - 1947)
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  • Paul Auster Artists are the people for whom the world is not enough.
    Paul Auster
    American writer and film (1947 - )
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  • G.W.F. Hegel As high as mind stands above nature, so high does the state stand above physical life. Man must therefore venerate the state as a secular deity. The march of God in the world, that is what the State is.
    G.W.F. Hegel
    German philosopher (1770 - 1831)
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  • Carlos Ruiz Zafon Barcelona is a very old city in which you can feel the weight of history; it is haunted by history. You cannot walk around it without perceiving it.
    Carlos Ruiz Zafon
    Spanish novelist (1964 - 2020)
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  • Count Axel Gustafsson Oxenstierna Behold, my son, with what little wisdom the world is ruled.
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  • George Bernard Shaw Better keep yourself clean and bright. You are the window through which you must see the world.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Cormac McCarthy Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting.
    Source: Al de mooie paarden (1992) 244
    Cormac McCarthy
    American novelist, playwright, short-story writer, and screenwriter (1933 - 2023)
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  • Benjamin Franklin Beware of the young doctor and the old barber.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Bill Monroe Bluegrass has brought more people together and made more friends than any music in the world. You meet people at festivals and renew acquaintances year after year.
    Bill Monroe
     
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  • Brent Scowcroft But, if you believe we should go around the world overturning regimes to make little United States, I don't agree with that, because I don't think we're capable of doing that.
    Brent Scowcroft
    American US Air Force officer (1925 - 2020)
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  • Benjamin Franklin Certainty? In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Shirley Hazzard Children seldom have a proper sense of their own tragedy, discounting and keeping hidden the true horrors of their short lives, humbly imagining real calamity to be some prestigious drama of the grown-up world.
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  • Brigitte Bardot China once again disgusts the world, portraying the image of a cruel, perverted people devoid of any feelings towards animals.
    Brigitte Bardot
    French fashion model, singer and actress (1934 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Courage charms us, because it indicates that a man loves an idea better than all things in the world, that he is thinking neither of his bed, nor his dinner, nor his money, but will venture all to put in act the invisible thought of his mind.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Walt Disney Disneyland will never be completed. It will continue to grow as long as there is imagination left in the world.
    Walt Disney
    American producer (1901 - 1966)
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  • Pablo Casals Each person has inside a basic decency and goodness. If he listens to it and acts on it, he is giving a great deal of what it is the world needs most. It is not complicated but it takes courage. It takes courage for a person to listen to his own goodness and act on it.
    Pablo Casals
    Spanish-Catalan composer and conductor (1876 - 1973)
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne Even on the most exalted throne in the world we are only sitting on our own bottom.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Benjamin E. Mays Every man and woman is born into the world to do something unique and something distinctive and if he or she does not do it, it will never be done.
    Benjamin E. Mays
    American Baptist minister and civil rights leader (1894 - 1984)
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  • James Russell Lowell Every person born into this world their work is born with them.
    James Russell Lowell
    American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat (1819 - 1891)
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