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  • Oscar Wilde In going to America one learns that poverty is not a necessary accompaniment to civilization.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Alex Cox In Goodfellas they have this one scene where the camera goes down some steps and walks through a kitchen into a restaurant and the critics were all over this as evidence of the genius of Scorsese and Scorsese is a genius.
    Alex Cox
    English film director, screenwriter and actor (1954 - )
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  • Abraham Lincoln In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be, wrong. God can not be for and against the same thing at the same time.
    Meditation on the Divine Will, ca. 2 September 1862
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Bela Lugosi In Hungary, acting is a career for which one fits himself as earnestly as one studies for a degree in medicine, law, or philosophy.
    Bela Lugosi
    Hungarian-American actor (1882 - 1956)
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  • Alexander Smith In life there is nothing more unexpected and surprising than the arrivals and departures of pleasure. If we find it in one place today, it is vain to seek it there tomorrow. You can not lay a trap for it.
    Alexander Smith
    Scottish Poet, Author (1829 - 1867)
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  • Erich Fromm In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two.
    Erich Fromm
    German - American philosopher and psychologist (1900 - 1980)
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  • Bela Lugosi In making theories, always keep a window open so that you can throw one out if necessary.
    Bela Lugosi
    Hungarian-American actor (1882 - 1956)
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  • George Orwell In moments of crisis one is never fighting against an external enemy but always against one's own body.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Susan Sontag In most modern instances, interpretation amounts to the philistine refusal to leave the work of art alone. Real art has the capacity to make us nervous. By reducing the work of art to its content and then interpreting that, one tames the work of art. Interpretation makes art manageable, conformable.
    Susan Sontag
    American writer, filmmaker, teacher, and political activist (1933 - 2004)
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  • Brunello Cucinelli In my office, I have a very beautiful marble bust of Seneca. I always have my eye on him when I'm taking phone calls. He's one of the many philosophers I've always read and admired.
    Brunello Cucinelli
    Italian designer and businessman
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  • Coco Chanel In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.
    Coco Chanel
    French couturier (1883 - 1971)
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  • Albert Einstein In order to form an immaculate member of a flock of sheep one must, above all, be a sheep.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Elbert Hubbard In order to have friends, you must first be one.
    Elbert Hubbard
    American writer and publisher (1856 - 1915)
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  • Don Marquis In order to influence a child, one must be careful not to be that child's parent or grandparent.
    Don Marquis
    American writer (1878 - 1937)
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  • Gloria Steinem In order to make a choice, you need the power to see there is one.
    Gloria Steinem
    American feminist writer (1934 - )
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  • Billy Strayhorn In order to play and write, it's unique - you either do one or the other.
    Billy Strayhorn
    American jazz composer and pianist (1915 - 1967)
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  • Edward Hoagland In order to really enjoy a dog, one doesn't merely try to train him to be semi-human. The point of it is to open oneself to the possibility of becoming partly a dog.
    Edward Hoagland
    American Novelist, Essayist (1932 - )
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  • Jean Rostand In order to remain true to oneself one ought to renounce one's party three times a day.
    Jean Rostand
    French writer (1894 - 1977)
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  • Van Morrison In order to win you must be prepared to lose something. And leave one or two cards showing.
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  • Alexis de Tocqueville In other words, a democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it.
    Alexis de Tocqueville
    French aristocrat, political philosopher and sociologist (1805 - 1859)
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