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  • George Bernard Shaw In the arts of life man invents nothing; but in the arts of death he outdoes Nature herself, and produces by chemistry and machinery all the slaughter of plague, pestilence, and famine.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Henry Miller In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • John Kenneth Galbraith In the choice between changing one's mind and proving there's no need to do so, most people get busy on the proof.
    John Kenneth Galbraith
    American economist (1908 - 2006)
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  • Aaron Klug In the course of my stay there, I also showed how one could analyse the experimental kinetic curves for the reaction of haemoglobin with carbon dioxide or oxygen by simulations in the computer, and so fit the rate constants.
    Aaron Klug
    British biophysicist (1926 - 2018)
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  • Leo Rosten In the dark colony of night, when I consider man's magnificent capacity for malice, madness, folly, envy, rage, and destructiveness, and I wonder whether we shall not end up as breakfast for newts and polyps, I seem to hear the muffled cries of all the words in all the books with covers closed.
    Leo Rosten
    Polish-American scientist (1908 - 1997)
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  • Calvin Coolidge In the discharge of the duties of this office, there is one rule of action more important than all others. It consists in never doing anything that someone else can do for you.
    Calvin Coolidge
    American president (1872 - 1933)
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  • Caitlin Moran In the early '90s, it was grunge; everybody was fully clothed. Alanis Morissette was one of the biggest artists in the world, never wore makeup, wearing Doc Marten boots, and then the Spice Girls turn up, and suddenly it all looks a bit burlesque; suddenly they're the biggest band in the world.
    Caitlin Moran
    English journalist, author, and broadcaster (1975 - )
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  • Rohinton Mistry In the end, it’s all a question of balance.
    Een wankel evenwicht (2010) 328
    Rohinton Mistry
    Indian-born Canadian writer (1952 - )
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  • Walt Whitman In the faces of men and women I see God, and in my own face in the glass, I find letters from God dropped in the street, and every one is signed by God's name. And I leave them where they are, for I know that wherever I go, others will punctually come for ever and ever.
    Walt Whitman
    American poet, essayist, and journalist (1819 - 1892)
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  • Anna Quindlen In the family sandwich, the older people and the younger ones can recognize one another as the bread. Those in the middle are, for a time, the meat.
    Anna Quindlen
    American author and journalist (1952 - )
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  • Carrie Fisher In the Fifties, my parents were known as 'America's sweethearts'. Their pictures graced the covers of all the newspapers. They were the Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston of their day.
    Carrie Fisher
    American actress, writer and comedienne (1956 - 2016)
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld In the human heart new passions are forever being born; the overthrow of one almost always means the rise of another.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Ajay Devgan In the industry, you do need some ethics - if one film does well, then thousands get work and money comes back to the industry. I guess the bottomline is, if there are two versions, then the better one will click.
    Ajay Devgan
    Indian film actor and director (1969 - )
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  • Aeschylus In the lack of judgment great harm arises, but one vote cast can set right a house.
    Aeschylus
    Greek dramatist (525 - 456)
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  • John Maynard Keynes In the long run we are all dead.
    John Maynard Keynes
    British economist (1883 - 1946)
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  • John Maynard Keynes In the long run, we are all dead.
    A Tract on Monetary Reform (1923) Ch.3
    John Maynard Keynes
    British economist (1883 - 1946)
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  • Angela Carter In the mythic schema of all relations between men and women, man proposes, and woman is disposed of.
    Angela Carter
    British author (1940 - 1992)
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  • Abigail Adams In the new Code of Laws which I suppose it will be necessary for you to make I desire you would Remember the Ladies, and be more generous and favorable to them than your ancestors. Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the Husbands. Remember all Men would be tyrants if they could. If perticular care and attention is not paid to the Ladies we are determined to foment a Rebelion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any Laws in which we have no voice, or Representation.
    Letter to John Adams, 31 March 1776
    Abigail Adams
    Wife of John Adams (1744 - 1818)
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  • Robert Bresson In the NUDE, all that is not beautiful is obscene.
    Robert Bresson
    French film director (1901 - 1999)
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  • August Strindberg In the old days, one married a wife; now one forms a company with a female partner, or moves in to live with a friend. And then one seduces the partner, or defiles the friend.
    August Strindberg
    Swedish writer (1849 - 1912)
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