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  • Jean Cocteau One of the characteristics of the dream is that nothing surprises us in it. With no regret, we agree to live in it with strangers, completely cut off from our habits and friends.
    Jean Cocteau
    French writer (1889 - 1963)
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  • Voltaire One of the chief misfortunes of honest people is that they are cowardly.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • Abba Eban One of the chief tasks of any dialogue with the Gentile world is to prove that the distinction between anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism is not a distinction at all.
    Abba Eban
    Israeli diplomat and politician (1915 - 2002)
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  • Kin Hubbard One of the commonest mistakes is thinking your worries are over when your children get married.
    Kin Hubbard
    American cartoonist, humorist, and journalist (1868 - 1930)
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  • Brad Feld One of the consistent characteristics of the tech industry is an endless labelling of technology and approaches.
    Brad Feld
    American entrepreneur, and author
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  • Bre Pettis One of the criticisms we get is, 'Does the world need more plastic crap?' But you have to look beyond the plastic crap, to the design, to the experience, to the empowering nature of the MakerBot and the community.
    Bre Pettis
    American entrepreneur and video blogger
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  • Alvin Toffler One of the definitions of sanity is the ability to tell real from unreal. Soon we'll need a new definition.
    Alvin Toffler
    American writer, futurist, and businessman (1928 - 2016)
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  • J. B. Priestley One of the delights known to age, and beyond the grasp of youth, is that of Not Going.
    J. B. Priestley
    English novelist, playwright and scriptwriter (1894 - 1984)
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  • Billy Collins One of the disadvantages of poetry over popular music is that if you write a pop song, it naturally gets into people's heads as they listen in the car. You don't have to memorize a Paul Simon song; it's just in your head, and you can sing along. With a poem, you have to will yourself to memorize it.
    Billy Collins
    American poet (1941 - )
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  • Bill Nye One of the drawbacks of English is you can't spell things by hearing them.
    Bill Nye
    American science communicator, television presenter (1955 - )
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  • A. B. Yehoshua One of the dreams of Zionism was to be a bridge. Instead, we are creating exclusion between the East and the West instead of creating bridges; we are contributing to the conflict between East and West by our stupid desire to have more.
    A. B. Yehoshua
    Israeli novelist (1936 - )
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  • George Orwell One of the effects of a safe and civilized life is an immense oversensitiveness which makes all the primary emotions somewhat disgusting. Generosity is as painful as meanness, gratitude as hateful as ingratitude.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Salman Rushdie One of the extraordinary things about human events is that the unthinkable becomes thinkable.
    Salman Rushdie
    Engels writer (1947 - )
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  • Billy Parish One of the fastest ways to build the clean energy economy is to allow more people to benefit from it.
    Billy Parish
    American environmental entrepreneur, author, and activist (1981 - )
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  • Benedict Cumberbatch One of the fears of having too much work is not having time to observe. And once you get recognised, there is nowhere for you to look any more. You can't sit on a night bus and watch it all happen.
    Benedict Cumberbatch
    English actor (1976 - )
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  • Henry Miller One of the few reasons why so few of us ever act, instead of reacting, is because we are continually stifling our deepest impulses.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • Samuel Butler One of the first businesses of a sensible man is to know when he is beaten, and to leave off fighting at once.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Sir William Osler One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine.
    Sir William Osler: Aphorisms (1961) p. 105
    Sir William Osler
    Canadian Physician (1849 - 1919)
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  • Arthur Henderson One of the first essentials is a policy of unreserved political cooperation with all the nations of the world.
    Arthur Henderson
    British Labour politician
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  • Bruce Lipton One of the first papers I wrote at the University of Wisconsin, in 1977, was on stem cells. I realized that if I changed the environment that these cells were in, I could turn the cells into bone, and if I changed the environment a bit more, they would form fat cells.
    Bruce Lipton
    American developmental biologist (1944 - )
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