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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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  • Adlai Stevenson II The human race has improved everything, but the human race.
    Adlai Stevenson II
    American politician and governor (1900 - 1965)
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  • Mark Twain The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession, but carrying a banner.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Abdullah Ahmad Badawi The idea is that they wouldn't want to deal with militant Islam but an Islam and Muslims who are committed to progress, committed to development, who like peace and are moderate in their ways. So that's what we are doing here.
    Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
    Malaysian politician (1939 - )
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  • Britt Ekland The idea of doing theatre always terrified me because I get terrible stage fright. In the early 1970s I was offered a panto but the thought of going on stage was just too mortifying.
    Britt Ekland
    Swedish actress and singer (1942 - )
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  • Angela Davis The idea of freedom is inspiring. But what does it mean? If you are free in a political sense but have no food, what's that? The freedom to starve?
    Angela Davis
    American political activist, philosopher, academic, and author (1944 - )
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  • Adam Arkin The idea of it becomes a little freaky if you're dealing with someone who has trouble differentiating between fantasy and reality, but that's a concern no matter what kind of movie you're dealing with.
    Adam Arkin
    American actor (1956 - )
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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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  • 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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  • Arthur Conan Doyle The ideal reasoner, he remarked, would, when he had once been shown a single fact in all its bearings, deduce from it not only all the chain of events which led up to it but also all the results which would follow from it.
    Arthur Conan Doyle
    British writer and medical doctor (1859 - 1930)
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  • Jean Rostand The ideal, without doubt, varies, but its enemies, alas, are always the same.
    Jean Rostand
    French writer (1894 - 1977)
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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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  • Umberto Eco The ideology of this America wants to establish reassurance through Imitation. But profit defeats ideology, because the consumers want to be thrilled not only by the guarantee of the Good but also by the shudder of the Bad.
    Umberto Eco
    Italian writer and critic (1932 - 2016)
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  • William S. Gilbert The idiot who praises, with enthusiastic tone, All centuries but this, and every country but his own.
    William S. Gilbert
    English dramatist, poet and illustrator (1836 - 1911)
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  • John Keats The imagination of a boy is healthy, and the mature imagination of a man is healthy; but there is a space of life between, in which the soul is in a ferment, the character undecided, the way of life uncertain, the ambition thick-sighted: thence proceeds mawkishness.
    John Keats
    English poet (1795 - 1821)
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  • Queen Victoria The important thing is not what they think of me, but what I think of them.
    Queen Victoria
    Queen of Great Britain (1819 - 1901)
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  • Carolyn Murphy The industry's much quicker. The turnover with models - I cannot keep up. And in my day, we had so much personality. We probably caused a lot more trouble, but it was fun.
    Carolyn Murphy
    American model and actress (1974 - )
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  • William Butler Yeats The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.
    William Butler Yeats
    Irish poet (1865 - 1939)
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  • Arthur Erickson The innovative spirit was America's strongest attribute, transforming everything into a brave new world, but there lingered an insecurity about the arts.
    Arthur Erickson
    Canadian architect and urban (1924 - 2009)
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