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  • Abdus Salam In this respect, the history of science, like the history of all civilization, has gone through cycles.
    Abdus Salam
    Pakistani theoretical physicist (1926 - 1996)
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  • Barney Frank In this view, the role of the great majority of Americans is simply to buy the products produced, work happily for their wages, and leave all of the significant economic decisions to the capitalists.
    Barney Frank
    American politician (1940 - )
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  • Charles Dickens In this world a great deal of the bitterness amongst us arises from an imperfect understanding of one another.
    Speech Birmingham’s Town Hall 30 december 1853
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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  • Oscar Wilde In this world there are two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it. The last is much the worst.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book: the prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk - they are all part of the curriculum.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Swami Brahmananda In truth, to attain to interior peace, one must be willing to pass through the contrary to peace. Such is the teaching of the Sages.
    Swami Brahmananda
    Indian Hindu spiritual teacher
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  • Winston Churchill In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken In war the heroes always outnumber the soldiers ten to one.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Henrik Ibsen In your power, all the same. Subject to your will and your demands. No longer free! No! That's a thought I'll never endure! Never.
    Henrik Ibsen
    Norwegian dramatist (1828 - 1906)
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  • Anthony J. D'Angelo In your thirst for knowledge, be sure not to drown in all the information.
    Anthony J. D'Angelo
    American writer
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  • Jean Paul In youth one has tears without grief, in old age grief without tears.
    Jean Paul
    German poet (ps. by Johann P.F. Richter) (1763 - 1825)
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  • George Robert Gissing In youth one marvels that man remains at so low a stage of civilisation, in later life one marvels that he has got so far.
    George Robert Gissing
    English writer (1857 - 1903)
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  • Barry Ritholtz Indeed, eventually, random outcomes all revert to the mean, meaning that streaks eventually end. Understanding this is a key part of intelligent and rational investing.
    Barry Ritholtz
    American author and newspaper columnist
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  • George Bernard Shaw Independence? That's middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Bliss Carman Indifference may not wreck a man's life at any one turn, but it will destroy him with a kind of dry-rot in the long run.
    Bliss Carman
    Canadian poet (1861 - 1929)
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  • Isaac Asimov Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core of science fiction, its essence has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all.
    Isaac Asimov
    American writer (1920 - 1992)
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  • Ogden Nash Indoors or out, no one relaxes in March, that month of wind and taxes, the wind will presently disappear, the taxes last us all the year.
    Ogden Nash
    American poet (1902 - 1971)
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  • Aleister Crowley Indubitably, Magic is one of the subtlest and most difficult of the sciences and arts. There is more opportunity for errors of comprehension, judgment and practice than in any other branch of physics.
    Aleister Crowley
    British occultist, writer, and mountaineer (1875 - 1947)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Infancy conforms to nobody: all conform to it, so that one babe commonly makes four or five out of the adults who prattle and play to it.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Antonio Porchia Infancy is what is eternal, and the rest, all the rest, is brevity, extreme brevity.
    Antonio Porchia
    Argentinian poet (1885 - 1968)
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