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  • Berthold Auerbach All men are selfish, but the vain man is in love with himself. He admires, like the lover his adored one, everything which to others is indifferent.
    Berthold Auerbach
    German-Jewish writer and poet (1812 - 1882)
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  • Plutarch All men whilst they are awake are in one common world: but each of them, when he is asleep, is in a world of his own.
    Plutarch
    Greek biographer and essayist (46 - 120)
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  • Ernest Hemingway All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn. American writing comes from that. There was nothing before. There has been nothing as good since.
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • Henry Miller All my good reading, you might say, was done in the toilet. There are passages in Ulysses which can be read only in the toilet - if one wants to extract the full flavor of their content.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • Ezra Pound All my life I believed I knew something. But then one strange day came when I realized that I knew nothing, yes, I knew nothing. And so words became void of meaning. I have arrived too late at ultimate uncertainty.
    Ezra Pound
    American poet (1885 - 1972)
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  • Billy Graham All my life I've been taught how to die, but no one ever taught me how to grow old.
    Billy Graham
    American Evangelist (1918 - 2018)
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  • George Bernard Shaw All my plays are masterpieces except the last one.
    George Bernard Shaw: The Collected Plays
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Caio Fonseca All my siblings became artists. One's a novelist, my brother is a painter, my sister was a costume designer.
    Caio Fonseca
    American painter (1959 - )
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  • Henry Fielding All nature wears one universal grin.
    Henry Fielding
    English writer (1707 - 1754)
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  • Ban Ki-moon All nuclear material in weapons programmes must be subject one day to binding international verification.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Bonnie Wright All of a sudden, it became a bit daunting. I'll be out shopping, and all it takes is for one person to recognise me and it can get scary.
    How Bonnie charmed Harry, Charlotte Methven, Daily Mail, 12th December 2009
    Bonnie Wright
    English actress, model and activist (1991 - )
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  • Byron Dorgan All of us aspire to give our children something more, leave a country to our children that is a better one, a stronger one, with better jobs and growth and opportunity.
    Byron Dorgan
    American author, businessman (1942 - )
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  • Gustave Flaubert All one's inventions are true, you can be sure of that. Poetry is as exact a science as geometry.
    Gustave Flaubert
    French writer (1821 - 1880)
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  • Vladimir Ilyich Lenin All our lives we fought against exalting the individual, against the elevation of the single person, and long ago we were over and done with the business of a hero, and here it comes up again: the glorification of one personality. This is not good at all. I am just like everybody else.
    Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
    Russian revolutionary leader (1870 - 1924)
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  • Roger Bacon All science requires mathematics. The knowledge of mathematical things is almost innate in us. This is the easiest of sciences, a fact which is obvious in that no one's brain rejects it; for laymen and people who are utterly illiterate know how to count and reckon.
    Roger Bacon
    English philosopher and Franciscan (1214 - 1294)
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  • Germaine Greer All societies on the verge of death are masculine. A society can survive with only one man; no society will survive a shortage of women.
    Germaine Greer
    Australian writer and public intellectual (1939 - )
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  • Clive James All television ever did was shrink the demand for ordinary movies. The demand for extraordinary movies increased. If any one thing is wrong with the movie industry today, it is the unrelenting effort to astonish.
    Clive James
    Australian author, poet, translator and memoirist (1939 - 2019)
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  • John Stuart Mill All that makes existence valuable to any one depends on the enforcement of restraints upon the actions of other people.
    John Stuart Mill
    English economist (1806 - 1873)
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  • Arthur Christopher Benson All the best stories in the world are but one story in reality - the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape.
    Arthur Christopher Benson
    English essayist, poet, author and academic (1862 - 1925)
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  • Buzz Aldrin All the Chinese have to do is fly around the Moon and back, and they'll appear to have won the return to the Moon with humans. They could put one person on the surface of the Moon for one day and he'd be a national hero.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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