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  • Mark Twain That's what an army is - a mob; they don't fight with courage that's born in them, but with courage that's borrowed from their mass, and from their officers.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Bill Walton That's what makes it so fun to be on a team. You're sitting at your house, thinking up this wild, crazy stuff as to how it's going to go, and the other guys are sitting at their houses doing the same thing.
    Bill Walton
    American basketball player (1952 - )
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  • Marcel Proust The ''sensitiveness'' claimed by neurotic is matched by their egotism: they cannot abide the flaunting by others of the sufferings to which they pay an even increasing amount of attention in themselves.
    Marcel Proust
    French writer and critic (1871 - 1922)
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  • Caitlin Stasey The 'ideal' body is everywhere you look, and we are made to feel like failures by advertisers and corporations who shame us into buying their products.
    Caitlin Stasey
    Australian actress (1990 - )
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  • Carol Loomis The 1969 experience has been a rude awakening for many hedge-fund investors and has left some of them with strong reservations about the whole concept. For the first time in their relatively short history, the funds are not growing: in fact, some have suffered large withdrawals of capital, and a few have actually folded.
    Carol Loomis
    American financial journalist (1929 - )
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  • Barry Diller The ability for consumers to receive broadcast over the air signal is their right.
    Barry Diller
    American businessman (1942 - )
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  • Bhagavad Gita The abstinent run away from what they desire
    But carry their desires with them.
    Bhagavad Gita
    Indian Hindu storybook
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  • Seneca The acquisition of riches has been to many not an end to their miseries, but a change in them: The fault is not in the riches, but the disposition.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • John Locke The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.
    John Locke
    English philosopher (1632 - 1704)
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  • W. H. Auden The actors today really need the whip hand. They're so lazy. They haven't got the sense of pride in their profession that the less socially elevated musical comedy and music hall people or acrobats have. The theater has never been any good since the actors became gentlemen.
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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  • Jean Cocteau The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizarre which seems inherent in them.
    Jean Cocteau
    French writer (1889 - 1963)
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  • Barry Commoner The AEC scientists were so narrowly focused on arming the United States for nuclear war that they failed to perceive facts - even widely known ones - that were outside their limited field of vision.
    Barry Commoner
    American cellular biologist, college professor, and politician (1917 - 2012)
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  • Abu Bakar Bashir The Afghans did not have sophisticated weapons like the Soviets did, but with their faith they defeated a superpower.
    Abu Bakar Bashir
    Indonesian Muslim cleric (1938 - )
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  • Aristotle The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Camille Paglia The airheads of Congress will keep their own plush healthcare plan - it's the rest of us guinea pigs who will be thrown to the wolves.
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Arthur Schopenhauer The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value.
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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  • Bob Graham The American people have been denied important information for their own protection.
    Bob Graham
    American politician and author (1936 - )
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  • Barbara Mikulski The American system of democracy is founded on the concept that every citizen has the right to vote, to know that their vote is counted, and that the vote is counted accurately.
    Barbara Mikulski
    American politician (1936 - )
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  • Alexis de Tocqueville The Americans combine the notions of religion and liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is impossible to make them conceive of one without the other.
    Alexis de Tocqueville
    French aristocrat, political philosopher and sociologist (1805 - 1859)
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  • Oscar Wilde The amount of women in London who flirt with their own husbands is perfectly scandalous. It looks so bad. It is simply washing one's clean linen in public.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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