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  • Germaine Greer All societies on the verge of death are masculine. A society can survive with only one man; no society will survive a shortage of women.
    Germaine Greer
    Australian writer and public intellectual (1939 - )
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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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  • John Stuart Mill All that makes existence valuable to any one depends on the enforcement of restraints upon the actions of other people.
    John Stuart Mill
    English economist (1806 - 1873)
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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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  • Buzz Aldrin All the Chinese have to do is fly around the Moon and back, and they'll appear to have won the return to the Moon with humans. They could put one person on the surface of the Moon for one day and he'd be a national hero.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • Bennet Omalu All the NFL players I have examined pathologically, I have not seen one that did not have changes in their brain system with brain damage.
    Bennet Omalu
    Nigerian-American physician and neuropathologist (1968 - )
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  • Alberto Giacometti All the sculptures of today, like those of the past, will end one day in pieces... So it is important to fashion ones work carefully in its smallest recess and charge every particle of matter with life.
    Alberto Giacometti
    Swiss sculptor, painter, draftsman and printmaker (1901 - 1966)
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  • Bon Scott All the songs we do are basically about one of three things: booze, sex or rock n roll.
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  • C. S. Lewis All their life in this world and all their adventures in Narnia had only been the cover and the title page: now at last they were beginning Chapter One of the Great Story which no one on earth has read: which goes on for ever: in which every chapter is better than the one before.
    The Chronicles of Narnia (1950) The Last Battle (1956), Closing lines, in Ch. 16 :
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • John F. Kennedy All this will not be finished in the first one hundred days. Nor will it be finished in the first thousand days, nor in the life of this administration, nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet. But let us begin.
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • Ben Schnetzer All those little acting rules you get, one of the interesting ones is, 'Play the opposite. Don't play 'victim.'
    Ben Schnetzer
    American actor (1990 - )
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  • Abdurrahman Wahid All too many Muslims fail to grasp Islam, which teaches one to be lenient towards others and to understand their value systems, knowing that these are tolerated by Islam as a religion.
    Abdurrahman Wahid
    Indonesian politican and Muslim leader (1940 - 2009)
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  • Oscar Wilde All trials are trials for one's life, just as all sentences are sentences of death.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Barney Ross All we had aboard the ship that morning was one Annapolis graduate and three reserves.
    Barney Ross
    American professional boxer (1909 - 1967)
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  • E. B. White All we need is a meteorologist who has once been soaked to the skin without ill effect. No one can write knowingly of the weather who walks bent over on wet days.
    E. B. White
    American writer (1899 - 1985)
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  • W. H. Auden All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of will but must wait until what he believes to be a good idea for a work ''comes'' to him.
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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  • August Wilson All you need in the world is love and laughter. That's all anybody needs. To have love in one hand and laughter in the other.
    August Wilson
    American playwright (1945 - 2005)
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  • Marquis de Sade All, all is theft, all is unceasing and rigorous competition in nature; the desire to make off with the substance of others is the foremost - the most legitimate - passion nature has bred into us and, without doubt, the most agreeable one.
    Marquis de Sade
    French aristocrat, writer, politician and philosopher (1740 - 1814)
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  • George Santayana Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • Bob Beauprez Although it was created with the best of intentions, the federal government's Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) program has become one of the worst and most costly boondoggles ever foisted on the American public.
    Bob Beauprez
    American politician and member (1948 - )
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