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  • Virgil Roman, remember that you shall rule the nations by your authority, for this is to be your skill, to make peace the custom, to spare the conquered, and to wage war until the haughty are brought low.
    Virgil
    Roman poet (70 - 19)
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  • Carolyn Chute Sadly I don't work well under restrictions. I need to forget the world and its rules and laws in order to enter the dreamlike flow of the fictional world. So I may be in some bad trouble.
    Carolyn Chute
    American writer and populist
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  • Stanislaw I. Leszczynski Science when well digested is nothing but good sense and reason.
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  • Aeschylus Search well and be wise, nor believe that self-willed pride will ever be better than good counsel.
    Aeschylus
    Greek dramatist (525 - 456)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Bram Stoker Seven years ago we all went through the flames. And the happiness of some of us since then is, we think, well worth the pain we endured.
    Source: Dracula (1897) Jonathan Harker
    Bram Stoker
    Irish author (1847 - 1912)
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  • Peter Ustinov Sex is a conversation carried out by other means. If you get on well out of bed, half the problems of bed are solved.
    Peter Ustinov
    British actor, writer, director (1921 - 2004)
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  • Karl Kraus Sexuality poorly repressed unsettles some families; well repressed, it unsettles the whole world.
    Karl Kraus
    Austrian writer and journalist (1874 - 1936)
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  • Brendan Behan Shakespeare said pretty well everything and what he left out, James Joyce, with a judge from meself, put in.
    Source: The wit of Brendan Behan (1968)
    Brendan Behan
    Irish poet, short story writer, novelist and playwright (1923 - 1964)
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  • Andrew Coyle Bradley Shakespeare very rarely makes the least attempt to surprise by his catastrophes. They are felt to be inevitable, though the precise way in which they will be brought about is not, of course, foreseen.
    Andrew Coyle Bradley
    American lawyer (1844 - 1902)
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  • Ben Jonson Shakespeare, in a play, brought in a number of men saying they had suffered shipwreck in Bohemia, where there is no sea by some 100 miles.
    Source: Conversations with William Drummond of Hawthornden
    Ben Jonson
    British Dramatist, Poet (1572 - 1637)
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  • Alice Walker She say, Celie, tell the truth, have you ever found God in church? I never did. I just found a bunch of folks hoping for him to show. Any God I ever felt in church I brought in with me. And I think all the other folks did too. They come to church to share God, not find God.
    Alice Walker
    American Author, Critic (1944 - 1982)
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  • Boy George She's probably in denial that she's a great big ball of insecurity and I'm quite well aware that I am one.
    Boy George
    English singer, songwriter, DJ, fashion designer and actor (1961 - )
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  • Boman Irani Shyam Benegal has found a lovely voice in this film. We've all seen the kind of cinema he's come up with over the years. His films like 'Mandi,' 'Manthan,' 'Sooraj Ka Saatvan Ghoda' all have revolutionised the face of Indian cinema. And in 'Well Done Abba,' he has once again found a relevant subject, which even youngsters can relate with.
    Boman Irani
    Indian actor (1959 - )
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  • Audre Lorde Silence has never brought us anything of worth.
    Audre Lorde
    American writer, feminist, womanist, librarian, and civil (1934 - 1992)
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  • Mary Baker Eddy Sin brought death, and death will disappear with the disappearance of sin.
    Mary Baker Eddy
    American founder of the Christian Science Church (1821 - 1910)
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  • Allen Klein Since the goal of my programs is to show audiences how humor can both help them heal as well as deal with not-so-funny stuff, I decided to discuss the events of the previous week, the pain all of us were feeling, and how humor and some laughter might be beneficial.
    Allen Klein
    American businessman, music publisher (1931 - 2009)
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  • John Holt Since we can't know what knowledge will be most needed in the future, it is senseless to try to teach it in advance. Instead, we should try to turn out people who love learning so much and learn so well that they will be able to learn whatever needs to be learned.
    John Holt
    American author and educator (1923 - 1985)
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  • Billy Joel Sing us a song you're the piano man Sing us a song tonight Well we're all in the mood for a melody And you've got us feeling alright.
    Source: The Piano Man (1973)
    Billy Joel
    American singer-songwriter and pianist (1949 - )
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  • Aldous Huxley Single-mindedness is all very well in cows or baboons; in an animal claiming to belong to the same species as Shakespeare it is simply disgraceful.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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