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  • Carl I. Hagen The immigration must be limited, that is, first and foremost the foreign cultural one.
    About immigration, Islam etc. Interviewed in Aftenposten (13 November 2005)
    Carl I. Hagen
    Norwegian politician (1944 - )
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  • Barbara Kingsolver The important thing isn't the house. It's the ability to make it. You carry that in your brains and in your hands, wherever you go... It's one thing to carry your life wherever you go. Another thing to always go looking for it somewhere else.
    Barbara Kingsolver
    American novelist, essayist and poet (1955 - )
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  • Nelson Algren The Impossible Generalized Man today is the critic who believes in loving those unworthy of love as well as those worthy -yet believes this only insofar as no personal risk is entailed. Meaning he loves no one, worthy or no. This is what makes him impossible.
    Nelson Algren
    American writer (1909 - 1981)
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  • Sigmund Freud The impression forces itself upon one that men measure by false standards, that everyone seeks power, success, riches for himself, and admires others who attain them, while undervaluing the truly precious thing in life.
    Sigmund Freud
    Austrian psychiatrist (1856 - 1939)
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  • Burnie Burns The initial plan for Rooster Teeth is really different from the initial plan for the group, because we started as a group that was making one show: 'Red vs. Blue.'
    Burnie Burns
    American writer, actor, producer and director (1973 - )
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  • Bell Hooks The institutionalization of Black Studies, Feminist Studies, all of these things, led to a sense that the struggle was over for a lot of people and that one did not have to continue the personal consciousness-raising and changing of one's viewpoint.
    Bell Hooks
    American author, professor, feminist (born G.J.Watkins) (1952 - 2021)
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  • Oscar Wilde The intellect is not a serious thing, and never has been. It is an instrument on which one plays, that is all.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Anne Morrow Lindbergh The intellectual is constantly betrayed by his vanity. Godlike he blandly assumes that he can express everything in words; whereas the things one loves, lives, and dies for are not, in the last analysis completely expressible in words.
    Anne Morrow Lindbergh
    American Author (1906 - 2001)
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  • Noam Chomsky The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn't betray it I'd be ashamed of myself.
    Noam Chomsky
    American Linguist, Political Activist (1928 - )
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  • Ed Parker The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is yet willing to learn more.
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  • Virginia Woolf The interest in life does not lie in what people do, nor even in their relations to each other, but largely in the power to communicate with a third party, antagonistic, enigmatic, yet perhaps persuadable, which one may call life in general.
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Bob Schieffer The Iraq war was fought by one-half of one percent of us. And unless we were part of that small group or had a relative who was, we went about our lives as usual most of the time: no draft, no new taxes, no changes. Not so for the small group who fought the war and their families.
    Bob Schieffer
    American television journalist (1937 - )
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  • Samuel Johnson The Irish are a fair people: They never speak well of one another.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Anna Quindlen The issue is privacy. Why is the decision by a woman to sleep with a man she has just met in a bar a private one, and the decision to sleep with the same man for $100 subject to criminal penalties?
    Anna Quindlen
    American author and journalist (1952 - )
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  • Ali Hosseini-Khamenei The issue of human rights is one of the most fundamental human issues and also one of the most sensitive and controversial.
    Ali Hosseini-Khamenei
    Iranian ayatollah
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  • Napoleon Hill The jack-of-all-trades seldom is good at any. Concentrate all of your efforts on one definite chief aim.
    Napoleon Hill
    American self-help author (1883 - 1970)
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  • Ezra Pound The jargon of these sculptors is beyond me. I do not know precisely why I admire a green granite female, apparently pregnant monster with one eye going around a square corner.
    Ezra Pound
    American poet (1885 - 1972)
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  • Ad Reinhardt The job at Brooklyn is interesting because Brooklyn reflects what happened to university art departments everywhere. It might be the worst department now, and yet at one point it was the best in the country.
    Ad Reinhardt
    American abstract painter (1913 - 1967)
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  • Adlai Stevenson II The journey of a thousand leagues begins with a single step. So we must never neglect any work of peace within our reach, however small.
    Adlai Stevenson II
    American politician and governor (1900 - 1965)
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  • Aleister Crowley The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.
    Aleister Crowley
    British occultist, writer, and mountaineer (1875 - 1947)
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