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  • Sir Arthur Conan Doyle All other men are specialists, but his specialty is omniscience.
    Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
    British author (1859 - 1930)
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  • Ellen Key All philanthropy... is only a savory fumigation burning at the mouth of a sewer. This incense offering makes the air more endurable to passers-by, but it does not hinder the infection in the sewer from spreading.
    Ellen Key
    Zweeds writer (1849 - 1926)
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  • Samuel Butler All philosophies, if you ride them home, are nonsense, but some are greater nonsense than others.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.
    Samuel Taylor Coleridge
    English poet and critic (1772 - 1834)
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  • Clive James All television ever did was shrink the demand for ordinary movies. The demand for extraordinary movies increased. If any one thing is wrong with the movie industry today, it is the unrelenting effort to astonish.
    Clive James
    Australian author, poet, translator and memoirist (1939 - 2019)
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  • Vera Brittain All that a pacifist can undertake - but it is a very great deal - is to refuse to kill, injure or otherwise cause suffering to another human creature, and untiringly to order his life by the rule of love though others may be captured by hate.
    Vera Brittain
    English nurse, writer, feminist, and pacifist (1893 - 1970)
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  • William C. Bryant All that tread, the globe are but a handful to the tribes, that slumber in its bosom.
    William C. Bryant
    American poet, editor (1794 - 1878)
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  • Arthur Christopher Benson All the best stories in the world are but one story in reality - the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape.
    Arthur Christopher Benson
    English essayist, poet, author and academic (1862 - 1925)
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  • Alice Hoffman All the characters in my books are imagined, but all have a bit of who I am in them - much like the characters in your dreams are all formed by who you are.
    Alice Hoffman
    American novelist (1952 - )
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  • Alice Hoffman All the characters in my books are imagined, but all have a bit of who I am in them - much like the characters in your dreams are all formed by who you are.
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  • Camille Paglia All the genres of philosophy, science, high art, athletics and politics were invented by men. But by the Promethean law of conflict and capture, woman has a right to seize what she will and vie with man on her own terms.
    Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Bill Maris All the information in the world has been pretty dispersed, but Google's mission has been to organize it and make it universally accessible.
    Bill Maris
    American entrepreneur and venture capitalist
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  • Baruch Spinoza All the objects pursued by the multitude not only bring no remedy that tends to preserve our being, but even act as hinderances, causing the death not seldom of those who possess them, and always of those who are possessed by them.
    On the Improvement of the Understanding
    Baruch Spinoza
    Dutch philosopher (1632 - 1677)
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  • Bess Myerson All the praise I received couldn't substitute for the praise I had never received from my mother at home. I longed for some wonderful man to come and save me from my life - but there didn't seem to be any, at least not for me.
    Bess Myerson
    American politician and model (1924 - 2014)
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  • Abraham Cowley All the world's bravery that delights our eyes is but thy several liveries.
    Abraham Cowley
    English poet (1618 - 1667)
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  • Alain Robert All these buildings are like mountains I would like to climb, but I am forbidden.
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  • Buddy Wakefield All these kids you can't seem to make any sense of would stop holding you so far off the edge of your seats if you'd start holding yourselves to the promises you make. We know you're not perfect because we're not. And I know I ain't perfect. But I believe I was meant to be.
    Poetry Older People
    Buddy Wakefield
    American poet and actor (1974 - )
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  • James Joyce All things are inconstant except the faith in the soul, which changes all things and fills their inconstancy with light, but though I seem to be driven out of my country as a misbeliever I have found no man yet with a faith like mine.
    James Joyce
    Irish writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow All things come round to him who will but wait.
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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  • Bob Dylan All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die.
    Bob Dylan
    American musician (1941 - )
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