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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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  • Robert Montgomery If you achieve success, you will get applause, and if you get applause, you will hear it. My advice to you concerning applause is this; enjoy it but never quite believe it.
    Robert Montgomery
    English poet and minister (1807 - 1855)
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  • Assata Shakur If you're deaf, dumb, and blind to what's happening in the world, you're under no obligation to do anything. But if you know what's happening and you don't do anything but sit on your ass, then you're nothing but a punk.
    Assata: An Autobiography (1987) 222
    Assata Shakur
    American activist and former member of the Black Liberation Army (BLA) (1947 - )
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  • Peter Cochrane Imagine a school with children that can read or write, but with teachers who can not, and you have a metaphor of the Information Age in which we live.
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  • Ouida In a few generations more, there will probably be no room at all allowed for animals on the earth: no need of them, no toleration of them. An immense agony will have then ceased, but with it there will also have passed away the last smile of the world's youth.
    Ouida
    English novelist, pseudonym of Maria Louise Ramé (1839 - 1908)
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  • Harold S. Geneen In business, words are words; explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality.
    Harold S. Geneen
    American Accountant, Industrialist, CEO, ITT (1910 - 1997)
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  • Carl Sandburg In the average newspaper there is not a complete suppression of stories that the sacred cows don't want printed. But rather what happens is that the stories get printed with stresses, colorations and emphasis that favor the sacred cows.
    Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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  • Eric Hoffer Intolerance is the ''Do Not Touch'' sign on something that cannot bear touching. We do not mind having our hair ruffled, but we will not tolerate any familiarity with the toupee which covers our baldness.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Rose Kennedy It has been said, 'time heals all wounds.' I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue and the pain lessens. But it is never gone.
    Rose Kennedy
    American philanthropist and mother of John F. Kennedy (1890 - 1995)
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  • George Orwell It is a corrupting thing to live one's real life in secret. One should live with the stream of life, not against it.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Elbert Hubbard It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test.
    Elbert Hubbard
    American writer and publisher (1856 - 1915)
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  • Aeschylus It is an easy thing for one whose foot is on the outside of calamity to give advice and to rebuke the sufferer.
    Aeschylus
    Greek dramatist (525 - 456)
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  • Theodore Roosevelt It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.
    Theodore Roosevelt
    American statesman (1858 - 1919)
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  • Maurice Maeterlinck It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom.
    Maurice Maeterlinck
    Belgian poet, playwright and Nobel Prize winner (1911) (1862 - 1949)
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  • William Shakespeare It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves; we are underlings.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Carl Friedrich Gauss It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment.
    Carl Friedrich Gauss
    German mathematician and physicist (1777 - 1855)
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  • Thomas Hobbes It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law.
    Thomas Hobbes
    British philosopher (1588 - 1679)
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  • Fred A. Allen It is probably not love that makes the world go around, but rather those mutually supportive alliances through which partners recognize their dependence on each other for the achievement of shared and private goals.
    Fred A. Allen
    American comic (1894 - 1956)
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  • Epictetus It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.
    Epictetus
    Roman philosopher (50 - 130)
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  • Henry David Thoreau It seems to me that the god that is commonly worshipped in civilized countries is not at all divine, though he bears a divine name, but is the overwhelming authority and respectability of mankind combined. Men reverence one another, not yet God.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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