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  • Bono Marriage is this grand madness, and I think if people knew that, they would perhaps take it more seriously.
    Bono
    Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
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  • Sydney Smith Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
    Sydney Smith
    English writer and cleric (1856 - 1934)
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  • Benjamin Tucker Marx, as we have seen, solved it by declaring capital to be a different thing from product, and maintaining that it belonged to society and should be seized by society and employed for the benefit of all alike.
    Benjamin Tucker
    American anarchist and socialist (1854 - 1939)
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  • Virginia Woolf Masterpieces are not single and solitary births; they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of the people, so that the experience of the mass is behind the single voice.
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Philip Wylie Material blessings, when they pay beyond the category of need, are weirdly fruitful of headache.
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  • Richard Branson Material things are delightful, but they're not important.
    Richard Branson
    English business magnate, investor and philanthropist (1950 - )
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  • Brooks Atkinson Materialism is decadent and degenerate only if the spirit of the nation has withered and if individual people are so unimaginative that they wallow in it.
    Brooks Atkinson
    American theatre critic (1894 - 1984)
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  • Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Andrew Wiles Mathematicians aren't satisfied because they know there are no solutions up to four million or four billion, they really want to know that there are no solutions up to infinity.
    Andrew Wiles
    English mathematician (1953 - )
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  • Berenice Bejo Maybe I'll put my iPod in two minutes before. But truly, I've listened to actors say that they loved to listen to music before a shot, and I really understand that now because it puts you in the mood and gives you energy.
    Berenice Bejo
    French-Argentine actress (1976 - )
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  • Bjork Maybe it's just a personal thing, but I get so much grounding from Iceland because I know it's always going to be there. I have a very happy, healthy relationship with the country, so it's really easy to go everywhere because I always have Iceland to go back to.
    Bjork
    Icelandic singer, songwriter and actress (1965 - )
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  • Philip Roth Maybe the best thing would be to forget being right or wrong about people and just go along for the ride. But if you can do that -- well, lucky you.
    American Pastoral (1997)
    Philip Roth
    American Novelist (1933 - 2018)
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  • Don DeLillo Maybe when we die, the first thing we'll say is 'I know this feeling. I was here before'.
    White Noise (2015) 126
    Don DeLillo
    American Author (1936 - )
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  • Bob Marley Me only have one ambition, y'know. I only have one thing I really like to see happen. I like to see mankind live together - black, white, Chinese, everyone - that's all.
    As quoted in "Bob Marley: Musician" (Infobase Publishing, 2009) by Sherry Paprocki and Sean Dolan, p. 75
    Bob Marley
    Jamaican singer-songwriter (1945 - 1981)
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  • Hermann Hesse Meaning and reality were not hidden somewhere behind things, they were in them, in all of them.
    Hermann Hesse
    German-Swiss writer, poet and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1946) (1877 - 1962)
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  • Bernie S. Siegel Medicine is a very tough thing. I mean, everyone is going to die. Sooner or later. That's a tough thing to face.
    Bernie S. Siegel
    American writer and pediatric surgeon (1932 - )
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  • Paracelsus Medicine is not only a science; it is also an art. It does not consist of compounding pills and plasters; it deals with the very processes of life, which must be understood before they may be guided.
    Paracelsus
    Swiss doctor and alchemist, born Theophrastus von Hohenheim (1493 - 1541)
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  • Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh Meditation is the only cure for all sicknesses that man is prone to; a single medicine. And I should remind you that the word meditation and medicine come from the same root. Medicine for the body and meditation for the soul. They both bring health.
    Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
    Indian godman and mystic (1931 - 1990)
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  • John Kenneth Galbraith Meetings are a great trap. Soon you find yourself trying to get agreement and then the people who disagree come to think they have a right to be persuaded. However, they are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.
    John Kenneth Galbraith
    American economist (1908 - 2006)
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  • Dave Barry Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
    Dave Barry
    American humorist, writer
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