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  • Ian McEwan The trouble with being a daydreamer who doesn’t say much is that the teachers at school, especially those who don’t know you very well, are likely to think you’re rather stupid. Or, if not stupid, then dull. No one can see the amazing things that are going on in your head.
    Ian McEwan
    English novelist and screenwriter (1948 - )
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  • Carly Fiorina The truth is, Hillary Clinton's ideas create more income inequality. Why? Because bigger government creates crony capitalism. When you have a 70,000 page tax code, you've got to be very wealthy, very powerful, very well connected to dig your way through that tax code.
    Carly Fiorina
    American businesswoman and political (1954 - )
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  • Ban Ki-moon The U.N.'s humanitarian agencies rely on charitable donations from the public as well as the generosity of governments to continue their lifesaving work in response to natural disasters, armed conflicts and other emergencies.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Emma Goldman The ultimate end of all revolutionary social change is to establish the sanctity of human life, the dignity of man, the right of every human being to liberty and well-being.
    Emma Goldman
    American anarchist (1869 - 1940)
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  • Albert J. Nock The university's business is the conservation of useless knowledge; and what the university itself apparently fails to see is that this enterprise is not only noble but indispensable as well, that society can not exist unless it goes on.
    Albert J. Nock
    American libertarian author (1870 - 1945)
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  • Bill Viola The very first video experience I had was in high school. They brought a black-and-white closed-circuit surveillance camera into the classroom. I will never forget, as a kid, looking at that image.
    Bill Viola
    American video artist (1951 - )
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  • Robert Lynd The virtue of a medicine probably lies to a considerable extent in the will to get well with which one purchases it.
    Robert Lynd
    American sociologist (1892 - 1970)
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  • B. B. King The way I feel today, as long as my health is good and I can handle myself well and people still come to my concerts, still buy my CDs, I'll keep playing until I feel like I can't.
    B. B. King
    American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and record producer (1925 - 2015)
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  • Joe E. Lewis The way taxes are, you might as well marry for love.
    Joe E. Lewis
    American writer
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  • A. J. Liebling The way to write is well, and how is your own business.
    A. J. Liebling
    American journalist (1904 - 1963)
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  • Oscar Wilde The well-bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Carl Sagan The well-meaning contention that all ideas have equal merit seems to me little different from the disastrous contention that no ideas have any merit.
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Bill Hicks The whole image is that eternal suffering awaits anyone who questions God's infinite love. That's the message we're brought up with, isn't it? Believe or die! Thank you, forgiving Lord, for all those options.
    Source: Rant in E-Minor
    Bill Hicks
    American stand-up comedian, social critic, satirist and musician (1961 - 1994)
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  • Horace Walpole The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well.
    Horace Walpole
    British writer (1717 - 1797)
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  • Carl Gustav Jung The wise man who is not heeded is counted a fool, and the fool who proclaims the general folly first and loudest passes for a prophet and Führer, and sometimes it is luckily the other way round as well, or else mankind would long since have perished of stupidity.
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Adolf Loos The work of art is brought into the world without there being a need for it. The house satisfies a requirement. The work of art is responsible to none; the house is responsible to everyone. The work of art wants to draw people out of their state of comfort.
    Adolf Loos
    Austrian and Czechoslovak architect (1870 - 1933)
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  • Charles F. Kettering The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.
    Charles F. Kettering
    American inventor (1876 - 1958)
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  • Samuel Butler The world will only, in the end, follow those who have despised as well as served it.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Hillary Clinton The worst thing that can happen in a democracy - as well as in an individual's life - is to become cynical about the future and lose hope.
    Hillary Clinton
    American politician (1947 - )
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  • Ann Macbeth The worst thing that you can do in terms of bringing a product up to the market is to be two days after someone else has brought a similar product to the international market-It's dead.
    Ann Macbeth
    British embroiderer, designer, teacher and author (1875 - 1948)
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