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  • Lord Chesterfield The heart never grows better by age; I fear rather worse, always harder. A young liar will be an old one, and a young knave will only be a greater knave as he grows older.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Felix Adler The hero is one who kindles a great light in the world, who sets up blazing torches in the dark streets of life for men to see by.
    Felix Adler
    German American professor of political and social ethics (1851 - 1933)
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  • Bob Newhart The highest of highs is to have a new routine that you're just breaking in and that's working, and that's - you're one step removed doing a situation comedy because you have a live audience there.
    Bob Newhart
    American stand-up comedian and actor (1929 - )
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  • Richard Cecil The history of all the great characters of the Bible is summed up in this one sentence: They acquainted themselves with God, and acquiesced His will in all things.
    Richard Cecil
    British Evangelical Anglican priest (1748 - 1810)
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  • Roger Von Oech The human body has two ends on it: one to create with and one to sit on. Sometimes people get their ends reversed. When this happens they need a kick in the seat of the pants.
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  • Bill Viola The human brain is probably one of the most complex single objects on the face of the earth; I think it is, quite honestly.
    Bill Viola
    American video artist (1951 - )
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  • Günter Grass The human head is bigger than the globe. It conceives itself as containing more. It can think and rethink itself and ourselves from any desired point outside the gravitational pull of the earth. It starts by writing one thing and later reads itself as something else. The human head is monstrous.
    Günter Grass
    German writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1999) (1927 - 2015)
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  • George Santayana The human mind is not rich enough to drive many horses abreast and wants one general scheme, under which it strives to bring everything.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • Mark Twain The human race has but one really affective weapon, and that is laughter.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Mark Twain The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Adam Weishaupt The human race will then become one family, and the world will be the dwelling of Rational Men.
    Adam Weishaupt
    German philosopher (1748 - 1830)
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  • Salman Rushdie The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas - uncertainty, progress, change - into crimes.
    Salman Rushdie
    Engels writer (1947 - )
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  • Carl Sagan The idea that God is an oversized white male with a flowing beard who sits in the sky and tallies the fall of every sparrow is ludicrous. But if by 'God' one means the set of physical laws that govern the universe, then clearly there is such a God. This God is emotionally unsatisfying... it does not make much sense to pray to the law of gravity.
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Bono The idea that there is one kind of African is, of course, ridiculous. Sometimes African entrepreneurs want to kill you because you are saying public health is the priority, not roads. Of course they are right to press for that issue, but so are we right, I believe, to argue, for example, that millions of children could and should be vaccinated.
    Bono
    Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
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  • John Stuart Mill The idea that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of those pleasant falsehoods, which most experience refutes. History is teeming with instances of truth put down by persecution. If not put down forever, it may be set back for centuries.
    John Stuart Mill
    English economist (1806 - 1873)
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  • Campbell Newman The idea that we are not going to look after the Great Barrier Reef, which is just a wonderful tourism resource that it can be just for one example - we are not going to look after it, we won't have tight environment regulation, is frankly just not true.
    Campbell Newman
    Australian politician (1963 - )
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  • Anne Sophie Swetchine The ideal friendship is to feel as one while remaining two.
    Anne Sophie Swetchine
    Russian writer (1782 - 1857)
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  • William Somerset Maugham The ideal has many names, and beauty is but one of them.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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  • Italo Calvino The ideal place for me is the one in which it is most natural to live as a foreigner.
    Italo Calvino
    Italian writer (1923 - 1985)
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  • Carrie Mae Weems The ideas I'm working with are ideas I'm committed to. I don't know how to soft-shoe them. I don't know how to make them more palpable. I just never knew how to be one of those girls. I wish I knew how to be that sometimes, but I don't know how to be that way.
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