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  • Leonard Bernstein I've been all over the world and I've never seen a statue of a critic.
    Leonard Bernstein
    American composer, conductor, author, music lecturer and pianist (1918 - 1990)
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  • Bill Nye I've got no problem with anybody's religion. But if you go claiming the Earth is only 10,000 years old, that's just wrong.
    Bill Nye
    American science communicator, television presenter (1955 - )
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  • Thornton Wilder I've never forgotten for long at a time that living is struggle. I know that every good and excellent thing in the world stands moment by moment on the razor-edge of danger and must be fought for - whether it's a field, or a home, or a country.
    Thornton Wilder
    American writer and playwright (1897 - 1975)
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  • A. E. Housman I, a stranger and afraid in a world I never made.
    A. E. Housman
    British poet (1859 - 1936)
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  • Bill Owens Ideally the world would look like Davos, where there's more security than we can even see on the street.
    Bill Owens
    American photographer (1938 - )
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg Ideas too are a life and a world.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Rachel Carson If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder without any such gift from the fairies, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement, and mystery of the world we live in.
    Rachel Carson
    American marine biologist, author, and conservationist (1907 - 1964)
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  • Charles F. Kettering If a fellow wants to be a nobody in the business world, let him neglect sending the mail man to somebody on his behalf.
    Charles F. Kettering
    American inventor (1876 - 1958)
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  • Bernard Crick If a government is to do great new things, it will need more support. If a government is to change the world, it will need mass support. This is one of the discoveries of modern government.
    In Defence Of Politics A Footnote To Rally The Academic, p. 179
    Bernard Crick
    British political theorist (1929 - 2008)
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  • Francis Bacon If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson If a man can write a better book, preach a better sermon, or make a better mousetrap, than his neighbor, though he build his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Josh Billings If a man should happen to reach perfection in this world, he would have to die immediately to enjoy himself.
    Josh Billings
    American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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  • Ezra Pound If a patron buys from an artist who needs money (needs money to buy tools, time, food), the patron then makes himself equal to the artist; he is building art into the world; he creates.
    Ezra Pound
    American poet (1885 - 1972)
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  • Carter G. Woodson If a race has no history, if it has no worthwhile tradition, it becomes a negligible factor in the thought of the world, and it stands in danger of being exterminated.
    Carter G. Woodson
    American historian, author and journalist (1875 - 1950)
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  • Beatrice Webb If a weakly mortal is to do anything in the world besides eat the bread thereof, there must be a determined subordination of the whole nature to the one aim no trifling with time, which is passing, with strength which is only too limited.
    Beatrice Webb
    English sociologist and economist (1858 - 1943)
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  • William Faulkner If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate; the ''Ode on a Grecian Urn'' is worth any number of old ladies.
    William Faulkner
    American writer (1897 - 1962)
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  • Blaise Pascal If all men knew what each said of the other, there would not be four friends in the world.
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Blaise Pascal If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world.
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Paul Beatty If all the world's a stage, I want to operate the trap door.
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  • Abu Bakr If an ignorant person is attracted by the things of the world, that is bad. But if a learned person is thus attracted, it is worse.
    Abu Bakr
    Companion and father-in-law of the Islamic prophet Muhammad (573 - 634)
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