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  • David Mamet The poker player learns that sometimes both science and common sense are wrong; that the bumblebee can fly; that, perhaps, one should never trust an expert; that there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of by those with an academic bent.
    David Mamet
    American Playwright (1947 - )
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  • Emma Goldman The political arena leaves one no alternative, one must either be a dunce or a rogue.
    Emma Goldman
    American anarchist (1869 - 1940)
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  • Benazir Bhutto The political parties have unanimously rejected the one-man constitutional changes.
    Benazir Bhutto
    Pakistani politician (1953 - 2007)
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  • Plautus The poor man who enters into a partnership with one who is rich makes a risky venture.
    Plautus
    Roman comic poet (250 - 184)
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  • Lyndon B. Johnson The poor suffer twice at the rioter's hands. First, his destructive fury scars their neighborhood; second, the atmosphere of accommodation and consent is changed to one of hostility and resentment.
    Lyndon B. Johnson
    American president (1908 - 1973)
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  • Agatha Christie The popular idea that a child forgets easily is not an accurate one. Many people go right through life in the grip of an idea which has been impressed on them in very tender years.
    Agatha Christie
    British writer (1890 - 1976)
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  • Napoleon Hill The possibilities of creative effort connected with the subconscious mind are stupendous and imponderable. They inspire one with awe.
    Napoleon Hill
    American self-help author (1883 - 1970)
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  • Camille Paglia The post-war publish or perish tyranny must end. The profession has become obsessed with quantity rather than quality. One brilliant article should outweigh one mediocre book.
    Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Henry Ward Beecher The power of hiding ourselves from one another is mercifully given, for men are wild beasts, and would devour one another but for this protection.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Thich Nhat Hanh The practice of peace and reconciliation is one of the most vital and artistic of human actions.
    Thich Nhat Hanh
    Vietnamese Buddhist monk and peace activist (1926 - )
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  • Blaise Pascal The present letter is a very long one, simply because I had no leisure to make it shorter.
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Harry S. Truman The president is the representative of the whole nation and he's the only lobbyist that all the one hundred and sixty million people in the country have.
    Harry S. Truman
    American president (1884 - 1972)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche The press, the machine, the railway, the telegraph are premises whose thousand-year conclusion no one has yet dared to draw.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Lady Mary Wortley Montagu The pretty fellows you speak of, I own entertain me sometimes, but is it impossible to be diverted with what one despises? I can laugh at a puppet show, at the same time I know there is nothing in it worth my attention or regard.
    Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
    English writer (1689 - 1762)
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  • Bayard Rustin The principal factors which influenced my life are 1) nonviolent tactics; 2) constitutional means; 3) democratic procedures; 4) respect for human personality; 5) a belief that all people are one.
    Bayard Rustin
    American activist (1912 - 1987)
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  • Jeremy Bentham The principle of asceticism never was, nor ever can be, consistently pursued by any living creature. Let but one tenth part of the inhabitants of the earth pursue it consistently, and in a day's time they will have turned it into a Hell.
    Jeremy Bentham
    English philosopher, jurist, and social reformer (1748 - 1832)
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  • V. S. Pritchett The principle of procrastinated rape is said to be the ruling one in all the great bestsellers.
    V. S. Pritchett
    British writer and literary critic (1900 - 1997)
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  • Sir James Matthew Barrie The printing press is either the greatest blessing or the greatest curse of modern times, sometimes one forgets which it is.
    Sir James Matthew Barrie
    British playwright (1860 - 1937)
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  • Henry Miller The prisoner is not the one who has committed a crime, but the one who clings to his crime and lives it over and over.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • Carl Friedrich Gauss The problem of distinguishing prime numbers from composite numbers and of resolving the latter into their prime factors is known to be one of the most important and useful in arithmetic.
    Carl Friedrich Gauss
    German mathematician and physicist (1777 - 1855)
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