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  • Marianne Moore War is pillage versus resistance and if illusions of magnitude could be transmuted into ideals of magnanimity, peace might be realized.
    Marianne Moore
    American poet (1887 - 1972)
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  • Bill Watterson We all have different desires and needs, but if we don't discover what we want from ourselves and what we stand for, we will live passively and unfulfilled.
    Bill Watterson
    American cartoonist (1958 - )
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  • Anne C. Weisberg We all participate in weaving the social fabric; we should therefore all participate in patching the fabric when it develops holes mismatches between old expectations and current realities.
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  • Jean Baudrillard We are becoming like cats, slyly parasitic, enjoying an indifferent domesticity. Nice and snug in the social, our historic passions have withdrawn into the glow of an artificial coziness, and our half-closed eyes now seek little other than the peaceful parade of television pictures.
    Jean Baudrillard
    French sociologist and philosopher. (1929 - 2007)
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  • Henry David Thoreau We are eager to tunnel under the Atlantic and bring the Old World some weeks nearer to the New; but perchance the first news that will leak through into the broad, flapping American ear will be that the Princess Adelaide has the whooping cough.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Joseph Addison We are growing serious, and let me tell you, that's the next step to being dull.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Dwight L. Moody We are told to let our light shine, and if it does, we won't need to tell anybody it does. Lighthouses don't fire cannons to call attention to their shining- they just shine.
    Dwight L. Moody
    American evangelist (1837 - 1899)
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  • St. Teresa of Avila We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can - namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us.
    St. Teresa of Avila
    Spanish saint, mystic (1515 - 1582)
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Douglas Adams We demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty!
    Douglas Adams
    British science-fiction writer (1952 - 2001)
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  • Benito Mussolini We deny your internationalism, because it is a luxury which only the upper classes can afford; the working people are hopelessly bound to their native shores.
    In 1921. As reported in: "Modern dictatorship" (J. Cape, 1939) by Diana Spearman, p. 167
    Benito Mussolini
    Italian journalist, politician and dictator (1883 - 1945)
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  • Ezra Pound We do NOT know the past in chronological sequence. It may be convenient to lay it out anesthetized on the table with dates pasted on here and there, but what we know we know by ripples and spirals eddying out from us and from our own time.
    Ezra Pound
    American poet (1885 - 1972)
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  • Booker T. Washington We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.
    Booker T. Washington
    American Black Leader and Educator (1856 - 1915)
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  • Charles Caleb Colton We hate some persons because we do not know them; and we will not know them because we hate them.
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    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • William James We have grown literally afraid to be poor. We despise anyone who elects to be poor in order to simplify and save his inner life. If he does not join the general scramble and pant with the money-making street, we deem him spiritless and lacking in ambition.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Walt Kelly We have meet the enemy; and he is us.
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  • Charles Péguy We must always tell what we see. Above all, and this is more difficult, we must always see what we see.
    Charles Péguy
    French writer and poet (1873 - 1914)
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  • Malcolm X We need more light about each other. Light creates understanding, understanding creates love, love creates patience, and patience creates unity.
    Malcolm X
    American activist (1925 - 1965)
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  • Bill Flores We need to have our conservative version of what health care looks like, and that will include a repeal of Obamacare.
    Bill Flores
    American businessman and politician (1954 - )
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  • Sir John Lubbock We often hear of people breaking down from overwork, but in nine out of ten they are really suffering from worry or anxiety.
    Sir John Lubbock
    British statesman and banker (1834 - 1913)
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