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  • Henry David Thoreau The language of friendship is not words but meanings.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Carter G. Woodson The large majority of the Negroes who have put on the finishing touches of our best colleges are all but worthless in the development of their people.
    Carter G. Woodson
    American historian, author and journalist (1875 - 1950)
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  • Edgar Quinet The law of humanity ought to be composed of the past, the present, and the future, that we bear within us; whoever possesses but one of these terms, has but a fragment of the law of the moral world.
    Edgar Quinet
    French poet, historian and politician (1803 - 1875)
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  • Blake Anderson The lead singer for Deerhunter, Bradford Cox... I don't like saying people are geniuses or whatever, but I just think that dude is so good at every single thing he does. He stays within his genre, but I think he does so well experimenting with stuff.
    Blake Anderson
    American actor, comedian and producer (1984 - )
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  • Buzz Aldrin The leader of an Earth organization who makes a commitment to history - of humans living on Earth, to begin permanent settlement/occupation of not the moon, but of another planet - this leader will have a legacy for history that will supersede Columbus, Genghis Khan or almost any recognized leader.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • Benito Mussolini The League is very well when sparrows shout, but no good at all when eagles fall out.
    Benito Mussolini
    Italian journalist, politician and dictator (1883 - 1945)
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  • Benjamin Franklin The learned fool writes his nonsense in better language than the unlearned, but it is still nonsense.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • G.W.F. Hegel The learner always begins by finding fault, but the scholar sees the positive merit in everything.
    G.W.F. Hegel
    German philosopher (1770 - 1831)
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  • Callum Keith Rennie The less lines, the better. I am the silent film actor, but not in a slapstick sort of way. Film is an image-based medium, so whatever you can say without the words is far more provocative and punctuating. If the lines are not funny or if they don't advance the story, sometimes it's hard. I hate talk in movies.
    Callum Keith Rennie
    British-born Canadian actor (1960 - )
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  • George Bernard Shaw The liar's punishment, not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.
    Source: Quintessence Of Ibsenism
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Allan Bloom The liberally educated person is one who is able to resist the easy and preferred answers, not because he is obstinate but because he knows others worthy of consideration.
    Allan Bloom
    American writer (1930 - 1992)
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  • Lenny Bruce The liberals can understand everything but people who don't understand them.
    Lenny Bruce
    American Comedian (1925 - 1966)
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  • Margaret Mead The liberals have not softened their view of actuality to make themselves live closer to the dream, but instead sharpen their perceptions and fight to make the dream actuality or give up the battle in despair.
    Margaret Mead
    American cultural anthropologist (1901 - 1978)
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  • Ahmed Ben Bella The liberation movement which I led in Algeria, the organization that I created to fight the French army, was at first a small movement of nothing at all. We were but some tens of people throughout Algeria, a territory that is five times the size of France.
    Ahmed Ben Bella
    Algerian politician, socialist soldier and revolutionary (1916 - 2012)
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  • Charles Baudelaire The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it.
    Charles Baudelaire
    French poet (1821 - 1867)
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  • C. Wright Mills The life-fate of the modern individual depends not only upon the family into which he was born or which he enters by marriage, but increasingly upon the corporation in which he spends the most alert hours of his best years.
    C. Wright Mills
    American sociologist (1916 - 1962)
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  • Henry David Thoreau The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Kahlil Gibran The lights of stars that were extinguished ages ago still reaches us. So it is with great men who died centuries ago, but still reach us with the radiations of their personalities.
    Kahlil Gibran
    Libian painter and writer (1883 - 1931)
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  • Woody Allen The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won't get much sleep.
    Woody Allen
    American movie director and actor (1935 - )
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  • Woody Allen The lion and the calf will lay down together, but the calf won't get much sleep..
    Woody Allen
    American movie director and actor (1935 - )
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