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  • B. W. Powe Electrical fire and the fire of greed kindle economies. In that flux, nations become digitized commodities on stock-exchange floors and on investors' rating screens. A country becomes a product to be rated for its obedience to paying of deficits and debts.
    Towards A Canada of Light Interlude, p. 75
    B. W. Powe
    Canadian poet, novelist and teacher (1955 - )
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  • J. G. Ballard Electronic aids, particularly domestic computers, will help the inner migration, the opting out of reality. Reality is no longer going to be the stuff out there, but the stuff inside your head. It's going to be commercial and nasty at the same time.
    J. G. Ballard
    British author (1930 - 2009)
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  • Andy Rooney Elephants and grandchildren never forget.
    Andy Rooney
    American radio and television writer (1919 - 2011)
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  • Brendan Fraser Elizabeth Hurley and I had a lot of fun together. She's a very beautiful, confident woman.
    Brendan Fraser
    American and Canadian actor (1969 - )
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  • George Santayana Eloquence is a republican art, as conversation is an aristocratic one.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • Blaise Pascal Eloquence is an art of saying things in such a way—(1) that those to whom we speak may listen to them without pain and with pleasure; (2) that they feel themselves interested, so that self-love leads them more willingly to reflection upon it.
    Pensees (1669)
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • David Hume Eloquence, at its highest pitch, leaves little room for reason or reflection, but addresses itself entirely to the desires and affections, captivating the willing hearers, and subduing their understanding.
    David Hume
    Scottish Philosopher, Historian (1711 - 1776)
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  • Bill Medley Elvis was a great guy. We'd just horse around together or go to see a movie. He drove me around Graceland in a golf cart. He was a fan of our music and was curious about how I sounded so black.
    Bill Medley
    American singer and songwriter (1940 - )
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  • William Blake Embraces are cominglings from the head even to the feet, and not a pompous high priest entering by a secret place.
    William Blake
    English poet (1757 - 1827)
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  • Billy Collins Emily Dickinson never developed. She remained loyal to her persona and to that same little metrical song that stood her in such good stead. She is a striking example of complexity within a simple package. Her rhymes are like bows on the package.
    Billy Collins
    American poet (1941 - )
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  • George Santayana Emotion is primarily about nothing and much of it remains about nothing to the end.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • Carl Gustav Jung Emotion is the chief source of all becoming-conscious. There can be no transforming of darkness into light and of apathy into movement without emotion.
    Psychological Aspects of the Mother Archetype (1938)
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Max Eastman Emotion is the surest arbiter of a poetic choice, and it is the priest of all supreme unions in the mind.
    Max Eastman
    American writer on literature, philosophy and society (1883 - 1969)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Emotional excitement reaches men through tea, tobacco, opium, whisky, and religion.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Bill Viola Emotions are the key to many aspects of life. They are precisely the elements that make human beings human. I think the fact that emotions have been reduced and put off to the side in intellectual work, particularly in the 20th Century, is tragic.
    Bill Viola
    American video artist (1951 - )
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  • Barbara Kingsolver Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It's the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else's pain is as meaningful as your own.
    Barbara Kingsolver
    American novelist, essayist and poet (1955 - )
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero Empire and liberty.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Arthur C. Nielsen Employ every economy consistent with thoroughness, accuracy and reliability.
    Arthur C. Nielsen
    American businessman and engineer (1897 - 1980)
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  • Carlos Ghosn Employees are your most valuable assets. They are the heart and guts of a company. This doesn't mean that from time to time, you aren't going to do what is good for the company.
    Carlos Ghosn
    Brazilian-born businessman (1954 - )
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  • Andy Warhol Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible.
    Andy Warhol
    American artist (1928 - 1987)
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