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  • Sir William Temple The first ingredient in conversation is truth, the next good sense, the third good humor, and the fourth wit.
    Sir William Temple
    British Diplomat, Essayist (1628 - 1699)
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  • Barry Commoner The First Law of Ecology: Everything Is Connected to Everything Else.... The Second Law of Ecology: Everything Must Go Somewhere.... The Third Law of Ecology: Nature Knows Best.... The Fourth Law of Ecology: There Is No Such Thing as a Free Lunch.
    The Closing Circle
    Barry Commoner
    American cellular biologist, college professor, and politician (1917 - 2012)
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  • Brendan I. Koerner The first outbreak of America's 11-year skyjacking epidemic occurred in the summer of 1961, when four planes were seized in the nation's airspace. The last of these incidents, involving 16-year-old Cody Bearden and his father, Leon, is the one that finally forced the federal government to pay attention to the escalating crisis.
    Brendan I. Koerner
    American author (1974 - )
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  • Benjamin Cohen The first profile piece on myself came about after my Rabbi sent information to the Jewish Chronicle on what I was up to. The story was then picked up by one of the nationals and things grew from there.
    Benjamin Cohen
    American economist (1937 - )
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  • Pablo Casals The first thing to do in life is to do with purpose what one purposes to do.
    Pablo Casals
    Spanish-Catalan composer and conductor (1876 - 1973)
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  • Billy Preston The first time I met Ray, I was going to school around the corner from his house. One day, he was playing the piano. I eased up on the porch to listen to him.
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  • Sir James Goldsmith The first time I read an excellent work, it is to me just as if I gained a new friend; and when I read over a book I have perused before, it resembles the meeting of an old one.
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Blake Farenthold The fourth amendment specifically was designed to prohibit general warrants. How could collecting every piece of phone data be perceived as anything but a general warrant?
    Blake Farenthold
    American politician and lobbyist (1961 - )
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  • Desiderius Erasmus The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one. But that is the best of all.
    Desiderius Erasmus
    Dutch humanist and philosopher (1469 - 1536)
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  • Matthew Arnold The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
    Matthew Arnold
    British critic and poet (1822 - 1888)
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  • Alexis de Tocqueville The French want no-one to be their superior. The English want inferiors. The Frenchman constantly raises his eyes above him with anxiety. The Englishman lowers his beneath him with satisfaction.
    Alexis de Tocqueville
    French aristocrat, political philosopher and sociologist (1805 - 1859)
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  • Barbara Kingsolver The friend who holds your hand and says the wrong thing is made of dearer stuff than the one who stays away.
    Barbara Kingsolver
    American novelist, essayist and poet (1955 - )
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  • Bernard Law Montgomery The frightful casualties appalled me. The so-called good fighting generals of the war appeared to me to be those who had a complete disregard for human life. There were of course exceptions and I suppose one was Plumer; I had only once seen him and I had never spoken to him.
    Regarding the generals of the First World War. 1
    Bernard Law Montgomery
    British general (1887 - 1976)
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  • Martin Luther King The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.
    Martin Luther King
    American preacher (1929 - 1968)
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  • Søren Kierkegaard The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.
    Søren Kierkegaard
    Danish philosopher (1813 - 1855)
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  • Thornton Wilder The future author is one who discovers that language, the exploration and manipulation of the resources of language, will serve him in winning through to his way.
    Thornton Wilder
    American writer and playwright (1897 - 1975)
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  • Dean Acheson The future comes one day at a time.
    Dean Acheson
    American statesman and lawyer. (1893 - 1971)
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  • James Baldwin The future is like heaven, everyone exalts it, but no one wants to go there now.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Blake Mycoskie The future of TOMS is really creating a whole new business model of this one-for-one giving and expanding the TOMS model from shoes into other products as well.
    Blake Mycoskie
    American entrepreneur, author, and philanthropist (1976 - )
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