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  • Boris Pasternak What for centuries raised man above the beast is not the cudgel but the irresistible power of unarmed truth.
    Boris Pasternak
    Russian writer (1890 - 1960)
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero What gift has providence bestowed on man that is so dear to him as his children?
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Archibald Macleish What happened at Hiroshima was not only that a scientific breakthrough had occurred and that a great part of the population of a city had been burned to death, but that the problem of the relation of the triumphs of modern science to the human purposes of man had been explicitly defined.
    Archibald Macleish
    American poet (1892 - 1982)
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  • Edward Dahlberg What has a writer to be bombastic about? Whatever good a man may write is the consequence of accident, luck, or surprise, and nobody is more surprised than an honest writer when he makes a good phrase or says something truthful.
    Edward Dahlberg
    American novelist, essayist and autobiographer (1900 - 1977)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes What I call a good patient is one who, having found a good physician, sticks to him till he dies.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Adam Arkin What I had to say was, in general, I'm not really a fan of any one genre of any kind of film.
    Adam Arkin
    American actor (1956 - )
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  • Alma Guillermoprieto What I wonder is what would happen in California, say, if all the Mexicans left from one day to the next?
    Alma Guillermoprieto
    Mexican journalist
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  • Bill Gates What if Columbus had been told, Chris, baby, don't go now. Wait until we've solved our number-one priorities - war and famine; poverty and crime; pollution and disease; illiteracy and racial hatred....
    Bill Gates
    American business magnate, investor, author and philanthropist (1955 - )
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  • Anish Kapoor What interests me is the sense of the darkness that we carry within us, the darkness that's akin to one of the principal subjects of the sublime - terror.
    Anish Kapoor
    British Indian sculptor (1954 - )
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  • Ebenezer Elliott What is a communist? One who hath yearnings
    For equal division of unequal earnings.
    Source: Gedicht: Epigram
    Ebenezer Elliott
    British poet (1781 - 1849)
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  • E. Elliott What is a communist? One who hath yearnings for equal division of unequal earnings.
    E. Elliott
     
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  • Oscar Wilde What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Mahatma Gandhi What is a man if he is not a thief who openly charges as much as he can for the goods he sells?
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • Albert Camus What is a rebel? A man who says no.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Salvador Dali What is a television apparatus to man, who has only to shut his eyes to see the most inaccessible regions of the seen and the never seen, who has only to imagine in order to pierce through walls and cause all the planetary Baghdad's of his dreams to rise from the dust.
    Salvador Dali
    Spanish painter (1904 - 1989)
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  • William Blake What is a wife and what is a harlot? What is a church and what is a theatre? are they two and not one? Can they exist separate? Are not religion and politics the same thing? Brotherhood is religion. O demonstrations of reason dividing families in cruelty and pride!
    William Blake
    English poet (1757 - 1827)
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  • Carlisle Floyd What is American music? The most satisfying answer I've come across is that it was a kind of natural comfort with the vernacular which is diverse and regional; it's not one particular set of sounds.
    Carlisle Floyd
    American opera composer
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  • Rabindranath Tagore What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real.
    Rabindranath Tagore
    Indian mystic and poet (1861 - 1941)
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  • Carl Gustav Jung What is essential in a work of art is that it should rise far above the realm of personal life and speak to the spirit and heart of the poet as man to the spirit and heart of mankind.
    Source: Modern Man in Search of a Soul (1933)
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Barbra Streisand What is exciting is not for one person to be stronger than the other... but for two people to have met their match and yet they are equally as stubborn, as obstinate, as passionate, as crazy as the other.
    Barbra Streisand
    American singer, songwriter, actress, and filmmaker (1942 - )
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