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  • Napoleon Alexander, Caesar, Charlemagne, and myself founded empires; but what foundation did we rest the creations of our genius? Upon force. Jesus Christ founded an empire upon love; and at this hour millions of men would die for Him.
    Napoleon
    French Emperor (1769 - 1821)
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  • Denis Diderot All abstract sciences are nothing but the study of relations between signs.
    Denis Diderot
    French philosopher (1713 - 1784)
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  • George Orwell All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Alexander Pope All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.
    Essay on Man 1, 276
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Lucius Annaeus Seneca All art is but imitation of nature.
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  • Casey Stengel All blame is a waste of time. No matter how much fault you find with another, and regardless of how much you blame him, it will not change you. The only thing blame does is to keep the focus off you when you are looking for... reasons to explain your unhappiness or frustration.
    Casey Stengel
    American basketbal player and manager (1890 - 1975)
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  • Bjarke Ingels All comic books take place in built environments, and I was very good at drawing people and animals, and stuff like that, but I hadn't spent much energy drawing buildings. So I thought, maybe I could, and then I became an architect.
    Bjarke Ingels
    Danish architect and businessman (1974 - )
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  • Robert Southey All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falsehood passing from words into things.
    Robert Southey
    British writer (1774 - 1843)
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  • Publilius Syrus All delay is helpful, but it does produce wisdom.
    Publilius Syrus
    Syrian poet (85 - 43)
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  • François Fénelon All earthly delights are sweeter in expectation than in enjoyment; but all spiritual pleasures more in fruition than in expectation.
    François Fénelon
    French writer and archbishop (1651 - 1715)
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  • Tacitus All enterprises that are entered into with indiscreet zeal may be pursued with great vigor at first, but are sure to collapse in the end.
    Tacitus
    Roman senator and historian (56 - 117)
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  • Bertrand Russell All fear is bad, and ought to be overcome not by fairy tales, but by courage and rational reflection.
    On Fear
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Ernest Hemingway All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened.
    Papa Hemingway (1966) Pt. 2, Ch. 7
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • Anita Brookner All good fortune is a gift of the gods, and you don't win the favor of the ancient gods by being good, but by being bold.
    Anita Brookner
    British Writer (1928 - 2016)
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  • Banksy All graffiti is low-level dissent, but stencils have an extra history. They've been used to start revolutions and to stop wars.
    Banksy
    England-based anonymous street artist and political activist
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  • Alexander Trocchi All great art, and today all great artlessness, must appear extreme to the mass of men, as we know them today. It springs from the anguish of great souls. From the souls of men not formed, but deformed in factories whose inspiration is pelf.
    Alexander Trocchi
    Scottish writer (1925 - 1984)
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  • Joaquin Miller All honor to him who shall win the prize. The world has cried for a thousand years. But to him who tries and fails and dies, I give great honor and glory and tears.
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  • Eugene Field All human joys are swift of wing, For heaven doth so allot it; That when you get an easy thing, You find you haven't got it.
    Eugene Field
    American writer (1850 - 1895)
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  • Benjamin Franklin All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present but neither see nor feel those of the future; and hence we often make troublesome changes without amendment, and frequently for the worse.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Lord Chesterfield All I desire for my own burial is not to be buried alive; but how or where, I think, must be entirely indifferent to every rational creature.
    Letters (1892)
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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