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  • William Wordsworth These two things, contradictory as they may seem, must go together: manly dependence and manly independence, manly reliance and manly selfreliance.
    William Wordsworth
    English poet (1770 - 1850)
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  • Franklin D. Roosevelt These unhappy times call for the building of plans that build from the bottom up and not from the top down, that put their faith once more in the forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid.
    Franklin D. Roosevelt
    American statesman (1882 - 1945)
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  • Harriet Beecher Stowe These words dropped into my childish mind as if you should accidentally drop a ring into a deep well. I did not think of them much at the time, but there came a day in my life when the ring was fished up out of the well, good as new.
    Harriet Beecher Stowe
    American Novelist (1811 - 1896)
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  • Queen Elizabeth II These wretched babies don't come until they are ready.
    Queen Elizabeth II
    Queen of the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand (1926 - 2022)
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  • Plato These, then, will be some of the features of democracy... it will be, in all likelihood, an agreeable, lawless, parti-colored commonwealth, dealing with all alike on a footing of equality, whether they be really equal or not.
    Plato
    Greek philosopher (427 - 347)
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  • David Hume They are the successive perceptions only, that constitute the mind; nor have we the most distant notion of the place, where these scenes are represented, or of the materials, of which it is compos’d
    A Treatise of Human Nature (1739)
    David Hume
    Scottish Philosopher, Historian (1711 - 1776)
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  • Albert Hofmann They do not know very good Latin, these botanists.
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  • Bill Clinton They may walk with a little less spring in their step, and their ranks are growing thinner, but let us never forget, when they were young, these men saved the world.
    Speech on the 50th anniversary of D-Day at the United States Cemetery, Colleville-sur-Mer, France, 6 June 1994
    Bill Clinton
    President of the US (1946 - )
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  • Carter G. Woodson This assumption of Negro leadership in the ghetto, then, must not be confined to matters of religion, education, and social uplift; it must deal with such fundamental forces in life as make these things possible.
    Carter G. Woodson
    American historian, author and journalist (1875 - 1950)
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  • Ali Hosseini-Khamenei Those who have been outspoken in advocating human rights during these last forty years, have themselves grabbed the most fundamental of human rights from the people of the Third-World countries.
    Ali Hosseini-Khamenei
    Iranian ayatollah
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche Thoughts are the shadows of our sensations - always darker, emptier, simpler than these.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Abba Eban Time and again these governments have rejected proposals today - and longed for them tomorrow.
    Abba Eban
    Israeli diplomat and politician (1915 - 2002)
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  • Henri Matisse Time extracts various values from a painter's work. When these values are exhausted the pictures are forgotten, and the more a picture has to give, the greater it is.
    Henri Matisse
    French painter and sculptor (1869 - 1954)
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  • Alex Grey To bare our souls is all we ask, to give all we have to life and the beings surrounding us. Here the nature spirits are intense and we appreciate them, make offerings to them - these nature spirits who call us here - sealing our fate with each other, celebrating our love.
    Alex Grey
    American visionary artist, author and teacher
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  • Confucius To be able under all circumstances to practice five things constitutes perfect virtue; these five things are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness and kindness.
    Confucius
    Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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  • Cary Fowler To begin with, I've always known that I was a little bit different. And, I have a lot of relatives who own farms. I grew up in the American South where political issues and issues of justice were at the forefront. What I do now is a combination of all these factors.
    Cary Fowler
    American agriculturalist and businessman (1949 - )
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  • Mark Twain To do something, say something, see something, before anybody else - these are things that confer a pleasure compared with which other pleasures are tame and commonplace, other ecstasies cheap and trivial.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Marguerite Duras To love one child and to love all children, whether living or dead - somewhere these two loves come together. To love a no-good but humble punk and to love an honest man who believes himself to be an honest man - somewhere these, too, come together.
    Marguerite Duras
    French author and filmmaker (1914 - 1996)
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  • Bobby Vinton To me, there was nothing greater than to play for an audience and to entertain people and that has stayed with me all these years.
    Bobby Vinton
    American singer and songwriter (1935 - )
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  • Tacitus To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace.
    Tacitus
    Roman senator and historian (56 - 117)
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