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  • Elie Wiesel I believe that all the survivors are mad. One time or another their madness will explode. You cannot absorb that much madness and not be influenced by it. That is why the children of survivors are so tragic. I see them in school. They don't know how
    Elie Wiesel
    Rumanian-born American Writer (1928 - 2016)
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  • Umberto Eco I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren't trying to teach us. We are formed by little scraps of wisdom.
    De slinger van Foucault (2007) 60
    Umberto Eco
    Italian writer and critic (1932 - 2016)
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  • Adrian Edmondson I don't claim that our TV comedies are highbrow in anyway, but I think there's a basis to them, and that's why they're more popular than other TV comedies. There's a basis of truth in them, a gut feeling.
    Adrian Edmondson
    British actor (1957 - )
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  • Dick Clark I don't set trends. I just find out what they are and exploit them.
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  • Pablo Casals I feel the capacity to care is the thing which gives life its deepest significance.
    Pablo Casals
    Spanish-Catalan composer and conductor (1876 - 1973)
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  • Harry S. Truman I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.
    Harry S. Truman
    American president (1884 - 1972)
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  • Henry David Thoreau I have no doubt that it is a part of the destiny of the human race, in its gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals, as surely as the savage tribes have left off eating each other when they came in contact with the more civilized.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Thomas Love Peacock I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
    Thomas Love Peacock
    English novelist, poet, and official (1785 - 1866)
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  • Robert Orben I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home.
    Robert Orben
    American editor, writer, humorist (1927 - 2023)
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  • Bill Gates I think it's fair to say that personal computers have become the most empowering tool we've ever created. They're tools of communication, they're tools of creativity, and they can be shaped by their user.
    Speech at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, February 24, 2004
    Bill Gates
    American business magnate, investor, author and philanthropist (1955 - )
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  • Gerald Early I think there are only three things America will be known for 2, 000 years from now when they study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music and baseball.
    Gerald Early
    American essayist and American (1952 - )
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  • Brendan Behan I was court-martial in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.
    Brendan Behan
    Irish poet, short story writer, novelist and playwright (1923 - 1964)
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  • Barack Obama I've got two daughters. 9 years old and 6 years old. I am going to teach them first of all about values and morals. But if they make a mistake, I don't want them punished with a baby.
    Town Hall Meeting in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, 29 March 2008
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Emma Goldman Idealists are foolish enough to throw caution to the winds. They have advanced mankind and have enriched the world.
    Emma Goldman
    American anarchist (1869 - 1940)
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  • Jean Baudrillard If everything is perfect, language is useless. This is true for animals. If animals don't speak, it's because everything's perfect for them. If one day they start to speak, it will be because the world has lost a certain sort of perfection.
    Jean Baudrillard
    French sociologist and philosopher. (1929 - 2007)
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  • Jonathan Swift If men of wit and genius would resolve never to complain in their works of critics and detractors, the next age would not know that they ever had any.
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • Joseph Addison If men would consider not so much wherein they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Sun Tzu If our soldiers are not overburdened with money, it is not because they have a distaste for riches; if their lives are not unduly long, it is not because they are disinclined to longevity.
    Sun Tzu
    Chinese general and strategist (544 - 496)
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  • Ben Klassen If there is one thing in this wonderful world of ours that is worth preserving, defending, and promoting, it is the White Race.
    Natures Eternal Religion Natures Eternal Religion (1973), Ch. 2
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  • Bob Bartlett If they take their children to doctors, they believe they are putting their faith in man instead of in God.
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