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  • Denis Diderot The pit of a theatre is the one place where the tears of virtuous and wicked men alike are mingled.
    Denis Diderot
    French philosopher (1713 - 1784)
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  • Robert M. Pirsig The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands.
    Robert M. Pirsig
    American writer and philosopher (1928 - 2017)
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  • Elias Canetti The process of writing has something infinite about it. Even though it is interrupted each night, it is one single notation.
    Elias Canetti
    Austrian novelist and philosopher (1905 - 1994)
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  • Ludwig Wittgenstein The real discovery is the one which enables me to stop doing philosophy when I want to. The one that gives philosophy peace, so that it is no longer tormented by questions which bring itself into question.
    Ludwig Wittgenstein
    Austrian - English philosopher (1889 - 1951)
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  • Sydney Smiles The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at a time.
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  • G.W.F. Hegel The true courage of civilized nations is readiness for sacrifice in the service of the state, so that the individual counts as only one amongst many. The important thing here is not personal mettle but aligning oneself with the universal.
    G.W.F. Hegel
    German philosopher (1770 - 1831)
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  • Fred A. Manske The ultimate leader is one who is willing to develop people to the point that they eventually surpass him or her in knowledge and ability.
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  • Edgar Allan Poe There are few cases in which mere popularity should be considered a proper test of merit; but the case of song-writing is, I think, one of the few.
    Edgar Allan Poe
    American poet, writer and critic (1809 - 1849)
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  • Britt Daniel There are so many songs out there in the world that - if I know we have to come up with a new cover, then I'll just sit in my room and sing song after song and figure out which one I can kind of sing the best.
    Britt Daniel
    American musician (1971 - )
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  • Elias Canetti There is no such thing as an ugly language. Today I hear every language as if it were the only one, and when I hear of one that is dying, it overwhelms me as though it were the death of the earth.
    Elias Canetti
    Austrian novelist and philosopher (1905 - 1994)
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  • Denis Diderot There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.
    Denis Diderot
    French philosopher (1713 - 1784)
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  • Antoine de Saint-Exupéry To be a man is to be responsible. It is to feel shame at the sight of what seems to be unmerited misery. It is to take pride in a victory won by one's comrades. It is to feel, when setting one's stone, that one is contributing to the building of the world.
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    French writer (1900 - 1944)
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  • Ambrose Bierce To be positive: To be mistaken at the top of one's voice.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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  • Benjamin Netanyahu We are benefiting from one thing, and that is the attack on the Twin Towers and Pentagon, and the American struggle in Iraq, Ma'ariv quoted the former prime minister as saying. He reportedly added that these events swung American public opinion in our favor.
    Report: Netanyahu says 9/11 terror attacks good for Israel (16 April 2008)
    Benjamin Netanyahu
    Israeli politician (2009 - )
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  • Simone Weil We can only know one thing about God - that he is what we are not. Our wretchedness alone is an image of this. The more we contemplate it, the more we contemplate him.
    Simone Weil
    French philosopher (1909 - 1943)
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  • Thomas Alva Edison We don't know one-millionth of one percent about anything.
    Thomas Alva Edison
    American inventor and founder of General Electric (1847 - 1931)
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  • Ambrose Bierce What is a democrat? One who believes that the republicans have ruined the country. What is a republican? One who believes that the democrats would ruin the country.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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  • Andre Breton What one hides is worth neither more nor less than what one finds. And what one hides from oneself is worth neither more nor less than what one allows others to find.
    Andre Breton
    French writer (1896 - 1966)
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  • Thomas Fuller When good people have a falling out, only one of them may be at fault at first; but if the strife continues long, usually both become guilty.
    Thomas Fuller
    English preacher and writer (1608 - 1661)
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  • Helen Keller When one door closes, another opens. But we often look so regretfully upon the closed door that we don't see the one that has opened for us.
    Helen Keller
    American writer (1880 - 1968)
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