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  • Charles Horton Cooley ''I'' is a militant social tendency, working to hold and enlarge its place in the general current of tendencies. So far as it can it waxes, as all life does. To think of it as apart from society is a palpable absurdity of which no one could be guilty who really saw it as a fact of life.
    Charles Horton Cooley
    American sociologist (1864 - 1929)
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  • Omar Khayyam 'Tis all a Checker-board of Nights and days where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates and slays, and one by one back in the Closet lays.
    Omar Khayyam
    Persian astronoom, poet (1048 - 1131)
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  • Gloria Steinem A liberated woman is one who has sex before marriage and a job after.
    Gloria Steinem
    American feminist writer (1934 - )
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  • Thomas Fuller A man is not good or bad for one action.
    Thomas Fuller
    English preacher and writer (1608 - 1661)
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  • Oscar Wilde A pessimist is one who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • William Shakespeare A politician is one that would circumvent God.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Carl Sandburg A politician should have three hats. One for throwing into the ring, one for talking through, and one for pulling rabbits out of if elected.
    Variation of izquotes.com/quote/162233
    Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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  • Ambrose Bierce A popular author is one who writes what the people think. Genius invites them to think something else.
    Epigrams (1911) p.356
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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  • Abraham Joshua Heschel A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.
    Insecurity of Freedom
    Abraham Joshua Heschel
    Polish-American rabbi (1907 - 1972)
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  • Ambrose Bierce A total abstainer is one who abstains from everything but abstention, and especially from inactivity in the affairs of others.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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  • Richard Dawkins A universe with a creator would be a totally different kind of universe, scientifically speaking, than one without.
    Richard Dawkins
    English ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author (1941 - )
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  • Albert Pike Above all things let us never forget that mankind constitutes one great brotherhood; all born to encounter suffering and sorrow, and therefore bound to sympathize with each other.
    Albert Pike
    American attorney, soldier, writer, and Freemason (1809 - 1891)
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  • Ambrose Bierce Absurdity. A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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  • John Kenneth Galbraith All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.
    John Kenneth Galbraith
    American economist (1908 - 2006)
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  • Winston Churchill An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile - hoping it will eat him last.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Antoine de Saint-Exupéry And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    French writer (1900 - 1944)
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  • Edward F. Halifax Anger is never without an argument, but seldom with a good one.
    Edward F. Halifax
    British Conservative Statesman (1881 - 1959)
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  • Thomas Fuller Anger is one of the sinews of the soul.
    Thomas Fuller
    English preacher and writer (1608 - 1661)
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  • Ambrose Bierce Architect. One who drafts a plan of your house, and plans a draft of your money.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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  • Fjodor M. Dostojewski Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.
    Fjodor M. Dostojewski
    Russisch writer (1821 - 1881)
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