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  • Walter Lippmann This is one of the paradoxes of the democratic movement - that it loves a crowd and fears the individuals who compose it - that the religion of humanity should have no faith in human beings.
    Walter Lippmann
    American writer, reporter, and political commentator (1889 - 1974)
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  • Adam Smith This is one of those cases in which the imagination is baffled by the facts.
    Adam Smith
    Scottish Economist (1723 - 1790)
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  • Cat Stevens This is the beauty of the Qur'an: it asks you to reflect and reason, and not to worship the sun or moon but the One who has created everything. The Qur'an asks man to reflect upon the sun and moon and God's creation in general.
    Cat Stevens
    British singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist (1948 - )
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  • Benito Mussolini This is the epitaph I want on my tomb: Here lies one of the most intelligent animals who ever appeared on the face of the Earth.
    Remark to Galeazzo Ciano (19 December 1937) quoted in The Book of Italian Wisdom (2003) by Antonio Santi, p. 50
    Benito Mussolini
    Italian journalist, politician and dictator (1883 - 1945)
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  • Arthur C. Clarke This is the first age that's ever paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one.
    Arthur C. Clarke
    British science fiction writer, science writer and futurist (1917 - 2008)
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  • George Bernard Shaw This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one.
    Man and Superman (1903) Epistle dedicatory
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Beau Willimon This is the way I think about politics: We want two diametrically opposed things from a politician. On one hand we want them to be bastions of moral integrity, perfect people, saints. And on the other hand, we want them to be effective leaders.
    Beau Willimon
    American playwright and screenwriter (1977 - )
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  • Lorrie Moore This is what happened in love. One of you cried a lot and then both of you grew sarcastic.
    Lorrie Moore
    American writer (1957 - )
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  • Beth Broderick This one fellow I met at the gym. I went out to dinner with him and he said, 'I've been watching you for a year and I never thought you'd go out with me!' Then he fainted at the dinner table. I didn't know what the hell to make of that.
    Beth Broderick
    American actress (1959 - )
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  • Scott Reed This one step - choosing a goal and sticking to it - changes everything.
    Scott Reed
    American author
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  • Albert Szent-Gyorgyi This oxidation of hydrogen in stages seems to be one of the basic principles of biological oxidation.
    Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
    Hungarian physician and Nobel Prize winner in Medicine (1893 - 1986)
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  • Bob Graham This president has been reluctant to hold anybody accountable. No one was held accountable after September the 11th. Nobody's been held accountable after the clear flaws in intelligence leading up to the war in Iraq.
    Bob Graham
    American politician and author (1936 - )
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  • Elizabeth Barrett Browning This race is never grateful: from the first, One fills their cup at supper with pure wine, Which back they give at cross-time on a sponge, In bitter vinegar.
    Elizabeth Barrett Browning
    English poet (1806 - 1861)
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  • Virginia Woolf This soul, or life within us, by no means agrees with the life outside us. If one has the courage to ask her what she thinks, she is always saying the very opposite to what other people say.
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Asa Gray This substance, which is manifold in its forms and protean in its transformations, has, in its state of living matter, one physiological name which has become familiar, that of protoplasm.
    Asa Gray
    American botanist (1810 - 1888)
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  • Arthur Golden This time all the historical details and things were right. But I'd written it again in third person, and people found it dry. I decided to throw that one away.
    Arthur Golden
    American writer (1956 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • John Milton Those graceful acts, those thousand decencies, that daily flow from all her words and actions, mixed with love and sweet compliance, which declare unfeigned union of mind, or in us both one soul.
    John Milton
    English poet, polemicist and man of letters (1608 - 1674)
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  • Bill Hicks Those guys were in hog heaven, man. They had a weapons catalog, What's G-12 do, Tommy? Says here it destroys everything but the fillings in their teeth, helps pay for the war effort. Well, shit, pull that one up! Pull up G-12, please. ] ...Cool. What's G-13 do?
    Relentless
    Bill Hicks
    American stand-up comedian, social critic, satirist and musician (1961 - 1994)
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  • Robert Runcie Those who dare to interpret God's will must never claim Him as an asset for one nation or group rather than another. War springs from the love and loyalty which should be offered to God being applied to some God substitute, one of the most dangerous being nationalism.
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