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  • Aeschylus In the lack of judgment great harm arises, but one vote cast can set right a house.
    Aeschylus
    Greek dramatist (525 - 456)
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  • August Strindberg In the old days, one married a wife; now one forms a company with a female partner, or moves in to live with a friend. And then one seduces the partner, or defiles the friend.
    August Strindberg
    Swedish writer (1849 - 1912)
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  • Dalai Lama (14th) In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.
    Dalai Lama (14th)
    Tibetan spiritual leader (Tenzin Gyatso) (1935 - )
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  • John Lilly In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true either is true or becomes true.
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  • Judy Garland In the silence of night I have often wished for just a few words of love from one man, rather than the applause of thousands of people.
    Judy Garland
    American singer and actress (1922 - 1969)
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  • Ursula K. Le Guin In the tale, in the telling, we are all one blood. Take the tale in your teeth, then, and bite till the blood runs, hoping it's not poison; and we will all come to the end together, and even to the beginning: living, as we do, in the middle.
    Ursula K. Le Guin
    American writer of science fiction and fantasy books (1929 - 2018)
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  • Mignon McLaughlin In the theatre, as in life, we prefer a villain with a sense of humor to a hero without one.
    The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981)
    Mignon McLaughlin
    American writer, editor (1913 - 1983)
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  • Emma Goldman In the true sense one's native land, with its background of tradition, early impressions, reminiscences and other things dear to one, is not enough to make sensitive human beings feel at home.
    Emma Goldman
    American anarchist (1869 - 1940)
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  • E. L. Doctorow In the twentieth century one of the most personal relationships to have developed is that of the person and the state. It's become a fact of life that governments have become very intimate with people, most always to their detriment.
    E. L. Doctorow
    American writer (1931 - 2015)
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  • Nikola Tesla In the twenty-first century, the robot will take the place which slave labor occupied in ancient civilization.
    Nikola Tesla
    Serbian-American inventor, engineer, physicist, and futurist (1856 - 1943)
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  • Brad Carson In the U.S. I think there are really two reasons we should pursue energy policy. One is climate change, and the second is this notion that the oil market is cartel-ized by people, some of whom are friendly, some of whom are not, some of whom are in a more ambivalent position to us.
    Brad Carson
    American lawyer and politician (1967 - )
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  • Bill Hader In the U.S., it's like, you start with a great script, and then on set - not everybody, but definitely in the Apatow group - you go off, and you're improvising on camera. So while you're on camera, you're saying things that no one else has ever heard before during the actual take.
    Bill Hader
    American actor, comedian, writer, producer, and director (1978 - )
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  • Franz Kafka In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it.
    Franz Kafka
    Chech German-speaking writer (1883 - 1924)
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  • Charles Dickens In this world a great deal of the bitterness amongst us arises from an imperfect understanding of one another.
    Speech Birmingham’s Town Hall 30 december 1853
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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  • Oscar Wilde In this world there are two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it. The last is much the worst.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Camille Paglia In today's impoverished dialogue, critiques of liberalism are often naively called conservative, as if twenty-five hundred years of Western intellectual tradition presented no other alternatives.
    Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Swami Brahmananda In truth, to attain to interior peace, one must be willing to pass through the contrary to peace. Such is the teaching of the Sages.
    Swami Brahmananda
    Indian Hindu spiritual teacher
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  • Alice Munro In twenty years I've never had a day when I didn't have to think about someone else's needs. And this means the writing has to be fitted around it.
    Alice Munro
    Canadian short story writer (1931 - )
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  • Henry Louis Mencken In war the heroes always outnumber the soldiers ten to one.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Jean Paul In youth one has tears without grief, in old age grief without tears.
    Jean Paul
    German poet (ps. by Johann P.F. Richter) (1763 - 1825)
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