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  • Bela Lugosi In making theories, always keep a window open so that you can throw one out if necessary.
    Bela Lugosi
    Hungarian-American actor (1882 - 1956)
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  • George Orwell In moments of crisis one is never fighting against an external enemy but always against one's own body.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Susan Sontag In most modern instances, interpretation amounts to the philistine refusal to leave the work of art alone. Real art has the capacity to make us nervous. By reducing the work of art to its content and then interpreting that, one tames the work of art. Interpretation makes art manageable, conformable.
    Susan Sontag
    American writer, filmmaker, teacher, and political activist (1933 - 2004)
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  • Brunello Cucinelli In my office, I have a very beautiful marble bust of Seneca. I always have my eye on him when I'm taking phone calls. He's one of the many philosophers I've always read and admired.
    Brunello Cucinelli
    Italian designer and businessman
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  • Coco Chanel In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.
    Coco Chanel
    French couturier (1883 - 1971)
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  • Albert Einstein In order to form an immaculate member of a flock of sheep one must, above all, be a sheep.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Elbert Hubbard In order to have friends, you must first be one.
    Elbert Hubbard
    American writer and publisher (1856 - 1915)
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  • Don Marquis In order to influence a child, one must be careful not to be that child's parent or grandparent.
    Don Marquis
    American writer (1878 - 1937)
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  • Gloria Steinem In order to make a choice, you need the power to see there is one.
    Gloria Steinem
    American feminist writer (1934 - )
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  • Billy Strayhorn In order to play and write, it's unique - you either do one or the other.
    Billy Strayhorn
    American jazz composer and pianist (1915 - 1967)
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  • Edward Hoagland In order to really enjoy a dog, one doesn't merely try to train him to be semi-human. The point of it is to open oneself to the possibility of becoming partly a dog.
    Edward Hoagland
    American Novelist, Essayist (1932 - )
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  • Jean Rostand In order to remain true to oneself one ought to renounce one's party three times a day.
    Jean Rostand
    French writer (1894 - 1977)
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  • Van Morrison In order to win you must be prepared to lose something. And leave one or two cards showing.
    Van Morrison
     
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  • Alexis de Tocqueville In other words, a democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it.
    Alexis de Tocqueville
    French aristocrat, political philosopher and sociologist (1805 - 1859)
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  • P. J. O'Rourke In our brief national history we have shot four of our presidents, worried five of them to death, impeached one and hounded another out of office. And when all else fails, we hold an election and assassinate their character.
    P. J. O'Rourke
    American journalist (1947 - )
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  • William Tecumseh Sherman In our Country one class of men makes war and leaves another to fight it out.
    William Tecumseh Sherman
    American soldier, businessman, educator and author (1820 - 1891)
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  • Arthur Schopenhauer In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties.
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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  • George Orwell In philosophy, or religion, or ethics, or politics, two and two might make five, but when one was designing a gun or an aeroplane they had to make four.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Frank Dane In polite society one laughs at all the jokes, including the ones one has heard before.
    Frank Dane
    British actor
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  • Plato In politics we presume that everyone who knows how to get votes knows how to administer a city or a state. When we are ill... we do not ask for the handsomest physician, or the most eloquent one.
    Plato
    Greek philosopher (427 - 347)
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