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  • Sir Thomas Browne But the iniquity of oblivion blindly scattereth her poppy, and deals with the memory of men without distinction to merit of perpetuity.
    Sir Thomas Browne
    British author, physician and philosopher (1605 - 1682)
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  • William Shakespeare But, good my brother, do not, as some ungracious pastors do. Show me the steep and thorny way to heaven whilst like a puffed and reckless libertine himself the primrose path of dalliance treads and wrecks not his own.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Frank Moore Colby By rights, satire is a lonely and introspective occupation, for nobody can describe a fool to the life without much patient self-inspection.
    Frank Moore Colby
    American Editor, Essayist (1865 - 1925)
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  • Jose Ortega Y Gasset By speaking, by thinking, we undertake to clarify things, and that forces us to exacerbate them, dislocate them, schematize them. Every concept is in itself an exaggeration.
    Jose Ortega Y Gasset
    Spanish writer and philosopher (1883 - 1955)
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  • Andrew Young Can wealth give happiness? look around and see, what gay distress! what splendid misery! Whatever fortunes lavishly can pour, the mind annihilates and calls for more.
    Andrew Young
    Amercan activisit and minister (1932 - )
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  • B. R. Ambedkar Caste is not a physical object like a wall of bricks or a line of barbed wire which prevents the Hindus from co-mingling and which has, therefore, to be pulled down. Caste is a notion; it is a state of the mind.
    B. R. Ambedkar
    Indian jurist, economist and politician (1891 - 1956)
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg Cautiousness in judgment is nowadays to be recommended to each and every one: if we gained only one incontestable truth every ten years from each of our philosophical writers the harvest we reaped would be sufficient.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Aaron Sorkin Certainly, last year we did an episode about the census and sampling versus a direct statistic. You just said the word 'census,' and people fall asleep.
    Aaron Sorkin
    American screenwriter, director, producer, and playwright (1961 - )
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  • Benjamin Franklin Certainty? In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Bryant H. McGill Change will never happen when people lack the ability and courage to see themselves for who they are.
    Bryant H. McGill
    American journalist and author (1969 - )
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  • Abraham Lincoln Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Barbara Bush Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family.
    Barbara Bush
    American First Lady (1925 - 2018)
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  • Anatoly Karpov Chess is everything: art, science, and sport.
    Anatoly Karpov
    Russian chess grandmaster (1951 - 1951)
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  • Paul Klee Children also have artistic ability, and there is wisdom in there having it! The more helpless they are, the more instructive are the examples they furnish us; and they must be preserved free of corruption from an early age.
    Paul Klee
    Swiss artist (1879 - 1940)
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  • Shirley Hazzard Children seldom have a proper sense of their own tragedy, discounting and keeping hidden the true horrors of their short lives, humbly imagining real calamity to be some prestigious drama of the grown-up world.
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  • Brigitte Bardot China once again disgusts the world, portraying the image of a cruel, perverted people devoid of any feelings towards animals.
    Brigitte Bardot
    French fashion model, singer and actress (1934 - )
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  • James Baldwin Christianity has operated with an unmitigated arrogance and cruelty - necessarily, since a religion ordinarily imposes on those who have discovered the true faith the spiritual duty of liberating the infidels.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Martin Luther Christians are to be taught that the pope would and should wish to give of his own money, even though he had to sell the basilica of St. Peter, to many of those from whom certain hawkers of indulgences cajole money.
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  • Thomas Merton Churches and cities are the most wonderful solitudes.
    Thomas Merton
    American religeous writer, poet (1915 - 1968)
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  • Brad Sherman Circumcision is obligatory for Jewish-born males - it must be performed on the eighth day after birth and is only postponed in the case of threat to the life or health of the child. Muslim parents also circumcise their male children.
    Brad Sherman
    American politician (1954 - )
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