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  • Friedrich Nietzsche What really raises one's indignation against suffering is not suffering intrinsically, but the senselessness of suffering.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Italo Calvino What Romantic terminology called genius or talent or inspiration is nothing other than finding the right road empirically, following one's nose, taking shortcuts.
    Italo Calvino
    Italian writer (1923 - 1985)
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Andrew Lloyd Webber What strikes me is that there's a very fine line between success and failure. Just one ingredient can make the difference.
    Andrew Lloyd Webber
    English composer and impresario (1948 - )
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  • Kurt Vonnegut What war has always been is a puberty ceremony. It's a very rough one, but you went away a boy and came back a man, maybe with an eye missing or whatever but godammit you were a man and people had to call you a man thereafter.
    Kurt Vonnegut
    American writer (1922 - 2007)
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  • Walter Lippmann What we call a democratic society might be defined for certain purposes as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
    Walter Lippmann
    American writer, reporter, and political commentator (1889 - 1974)
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  • Henri-Frédéric Amiel What we call little things are merely the causes of great things; they are the beginning, the embryo, and it is the point of departure which, generally speaking, decides the whole future of an existence. One single black speck may be the beginning of a gangrene, of a storm, of a revolution.
    Henri-Frédéric Amiel
    Swiss philosopher and poet (1821 - 1881)
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  • Havelock Ellis What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another.
    Havelock Ellis
    British psychologist (1859 - 1939)
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  • Ronald Reagan What we have found in this country, and maybe we're more aware of it now, is one problem that we've had, even in the best of times, and that is the people who are sleeping on the grates, the homeless, you might say, by choice.
    Ronald Reagan
    American politician and actor (1911 - 2004)
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  • Mrs. Jamieson What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, in some sense we are. The mere aspiration, changes one frame of mind and for the moment realizes itself.
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  • George Bernard Shaw What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Barney Frank What would be the nicest thing I could say about Newt Gingrich? He may be one of the great supporters of the humanities, because you have people who don't want to study the social sciences, because it's not profitable, and now Newt, as the highest-paid historian in American history, may be an encouragement to people to study history.
    Barney Frank
    American politician (1940 - )
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  • Malcolm Forbes What's an expert? I read somewhere, that the more a man knows, the more he knows, he doesn't know. So I suppose one definition of an expert would be someone who doesn't admit out loud that he knows enough about a subject to know he doesn't really know how much.
    Malcolm Forbes
    American businessman and publisher (Forbes Magazine) (1919 - 1990)
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  • Carlos Fuentes What's happened at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq is one of the grossest violations of human rights under the Geneva Conventions that we have record of. It is simply monstrous.
    Carlos Fuentes
    Mexican novelist and essayist (1928 - 2012)
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  • Boy George What's really sad is that a lot of very talented people are being forced to do things that are very embarrassing and I don't intend to be one of them.
    Boy George
    English singer, songwriter, DJ, fashion designer and actor (1961 - )
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  • Bernard Bailyn Whatever deficiencies the leaders of the American Revolution may have had, reticence, fortunately, was not one of them.
    The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution Ch. I, THE LITERATURE OF REVOLUTION, p. 1
    Bernard Bailyn
    American historian, author, and academic (1922 - 2020)
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  • Oscar Wilde Whatever harsh criticisms may be passed on the construction of her sentences, she at least possesses that one touch of vulgarity that makes the whole world kin.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • John C. Lilly Whatever one believes to be true either is true or becomes true in one's mind.
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  • Heinrich Heine Whatever tears one may shed, in the end one always blows one's nose.
    Heinrich Heine
    German poet (1797 - 1856)
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  • Harry Browne Whatever the price, identify it now. What will you have to go through to get where you want to be? There is a price you can pay to be free of the situation once and for all. It may be a fantastic price or a tiny one - but there is a price.
    Harry Browne
    American financial adviser and writer (1933 - 2006)
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