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  • Carlo Rubbia In big science, the role of the individual scientist must be carefully preserved. So is the one of original ideas and of contributions.
    Carlo Rubbia
    Italian physicist and inventor (1934 - )
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  • Alain de Botton In Britain, because I live here, I can also run into problems of envy and competition. But all this is just in a day's work for a writer. You can't put stuff out there without someone calling you a complete fool. Oh, well.
    Alain de Botton
    Swiss-born British author (1969 - )
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  • Nigel Farage In Britain, what we've done is say to 485 million people, 'You can all come, every one of you. You're unemployed? You've got a criminal record? Please come. You've got 19 children? Please come.' We've lost any sense of perspective on this.
    Nigel Farage
    British politician, activist, political commentator and broadcaster (1964 - )
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  • Carol Bellamy In choosing global corporate partners UNICEF emphasises compatibility with our core values and looks to build alliances that advance our mission of ensuring the health, education, equality and protection for all the world's children.
    Carol Bellamy
    American nonprofit executive (1942 - )
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  • Geoffrey F. Fisher In cities no one is quiet but many are lonely; in the country, people are quiet but few are lonely.
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  • Bjarke Ingels In Copenhagen, there's a long-term commitment to creating a well-functioning pedestrian city where all forms of movement - pedestrian, bicycles, cars, public transportation - are accommodated with equal priority.
    Bjarke Ingels
    Danish architect and businessman (1974 - )
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  • Birgitte Hjort Sorensen In Copenhagen, we all ride bicycles everywhere, partly because it is impossible to park a car, but also because you can cross the city in 20 minutes on a bike.
    Birgitte Hjort Sorensen
    Danish actrice (1982 - )
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  • Breyten Breytenbach In dancing with the enemy one follows his steps even if counting under one's breath.
    Breyten Breytenbach
    South African writer and painter (1939 - )
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  • Dean William R. Inge In dealing with Englishmen you can be sure of one thing only, that the logical solution will not be adopted.
    Dean William R. Inge
    Dean of St Paul's, London (1860 - 1954)
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  • Albert Camus In default of inexhaustible happiness, eternal suffering would at least give us a destiny. But we do not even have that consolation, and our worst agonies come to an end one day.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Leonard Cohen In dreams the truth is learned that all good works are done in the absence of a caress.
    Leonard Cohen
    Canadian-born American Musician, Songwriter, Singer (1934 - 2016)
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  • Blaise Pascal In each action we must look beyond the action at our past, present, and future state, and at others whom it affects, and see the relations of all those things. And then we shall be very cautious.
    Pensees
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Hermann Hesse In each individual the spirit is made flesh, in each one the whole of creation suffers, in each one a Savior is crucified.
    Hermann Hesse
    German-Swiss writer, poet and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1946) (1877 - 1962)
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg In each of us there is a little of all of us.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Robert Louis Stevenson In each of us, two natures are at war – the good and the evil. All our lives the fight goes on between them, and one of them must conquer. But in our own hands lies the power to choose – what we want most to be we are.
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    Scottish writer and poet (1850 - 1894)
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  • George Santayana In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the unreflective creation, the truth of immortality. The most ideal human passion is love, which is also the most absolute and animal and one of the most ephemeral.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • Brooks Atkinson In every age 'the good old days' were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time. For every age has consisted of crises that seemed intolerable to the people who lived through them.
    Once around the sun (1951)
    Brooks Atkinson
    American theatre critic (1894 - 1984)
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  • Carl Sagan In every country, we should be teaching our children the scientific method and the reasons for a Bill of Rights. With it comes a certain decency, humility and community spirit. In the demon-haunted world that we inhabit by virtue of being human, this may be all that stands between us and the enveloping darkness.
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Francis Bacon In every great time there is some one idea at work which is more powerful than any other, and which shapes the events of the time and determines their ultimate issues.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Edna O'Brien In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: ''Is there someone new?''
    Edna O'Brien
    Irish writer and poet (1930 - 2024)
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