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  • E. M. Cioran The fanatic is incorruptible: if he kills for an idea, he can just as well get himself killed for one; in either case, tyrant or martyr, he is a monster.
    E. M. Cioran
    French-Romanian philosopher (1911 - 1995)
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  • Anita Hill The FBI has had a history of sex discrimination complaints brought against it, as well as race discrimination.
    Anita Hill
    American lawyer and academic (1956 - )
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  • George Bernard Shaw The first prison I ever saw had inscribed on it 'CEASE TO DO EVIL: LEARN TO DO WELL'; but as the inscription was on the outside, the prisoners could not read it.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Bernard Mandeville The first Rudiments of Morality, broach'd by skilful Politicians, to render Men useful to each other as well as tractable, were chiefly contrived that the Ambitious might reap the more Benefit from, and govern vast Numbers of them with the greater Ease and Security.
    The Fable of the Bees An Enquiry into the Origin of Moral Virtue, p. 33
    Bernard Mandeville
    British writer and artist (1670 - 1733)
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  • Thomas Hobbes The flesh endures the storms of the present alone; the mind, those of the past and future as well as the present. Gluttony is a lust of the mind.
    Thomas Hobbes
    British philosopher (1588 - 1679)
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  • Buddha The foolish man conceives the idea of 'self.' The wise man sees there is no ground on which to build the idea of 'self;' thus, he has a right conception of the world and well concludes that all compounds amassed by sorrow will be dissolved again, but the truth will remain.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • Arthur Henderson The forces that are driving mankind toward unity and peace are deep-seated and powerful. They are material and natural, as well as moral and intellectual.
    Arthur Henderson
    British Labour politician
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  • Blake Mycoskie The future of TOMS is really creating a whole new business model of this one-for-one giving and expanding the TOMS model from shoes into other products as well.
    Blake Mycoskie
    American entrepreneur, author, and philanthropist (1976 - )
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  • Brenda Laurel The game business arose from computer programs that were written by and for young men in the late 1960s and early 1970s. They worked so well that they formed a very lucrative industry fairly quickly. But what worked for that demographic absolutely did not work for most girls and women.
    Brenda Laurel
    American video game designer and researcher (1950 - )
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  • Brendan Gleeson The good thing about my part in 'Harry Potter' was that I was pretty well disguised. When I was walking down the street, there was no real recognition factor. Parents would sometimes call their children to come say hello to Mad-Eye, and the kids wouldn't know what they were looking at.
    Brendan Gleeson
    Irish actor and film director (1955 - )
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  • Carl Gustav Jung The great decisions of human life usually have far more to do with the instincts and other mysterious unconscious factors than with conscious will and well-meaning reasonableness. The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no universal recipe for living. Each of us carries his own life-form within him-an irrational form which no other can outbid.
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Jean de la Bruyère The great gift of conversation lies less in displaying it ourselves than in drawing it out of others. He who leaves your company pleased with himself and his own cleverness is perfectly well pleased with you.
    Jean de la Bruyère
    French writer (1645 - 1696)
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  • Louis D. Brandeis The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal - well-meaning but without understanding.
    Louis D. Brandeis
    American lawyer and associate justice on the Supreme Court (1856 - 1941)
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  • Brendan Gill The guns of the big events rumble through our pages, but the tiny firecrackers are constantly hissing and popping there as well; it appears that much of my life as a journalist has been devoted to sedulously setting off firecrackers.
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  • Bill Simmons The hardest achievement in acting - in my opinion, anyway - is nailing a role that absolutely nobody else could have played. Pacino owned Michael Corleone... but DeNiro could have owned it as well. Who else, though, but Val Kilmer could have nailed Jim Morrison? Does anyone besides Will Ferrell pull off Ron Burgundy?
    Bill Simmons
    American sports analyst and author (1969 - )
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  • Nan Fairbrother The hardest of all is learning to be a well of affection, and not a fountain; to show them we love them not when we feel like it, but when they do.
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  • Blaise Pascal The highest order of mind is accused of folly, as well as the lowest. Nothing is thoroughly approved but mediocrity. The majority has established this, and it fixes its fangs on whatever gets beyond it either way.
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Nelson Algren The Impossible Generalized Man today is the critic who believes in loving those unworthy of love as well as those worthy -yet believes this only insofar as no personal risk is entailed. Meaning he loves no one, worthy or no. This is what makes him impossible.
    Nelson Algren
    American writer (1909 - 1981)
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  • Buffalo Bill The Indians were well mounted and felt proud and elated because they had been made United States soldiers.
    The Life of Hon. William F. Cody, Known as Buffalo Bill, the Famous Hunter, Scout, and Guide: An Autobiography (1978 edition), U of Nebraska Press
    Buffalo Bill
    American soldier, bison hunter, and showman (1846 - 1917)
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  • Edward F. Halifax The invisible thing called a Good Name is made up of the breath of numbers that speak well of you.
    Edward F. Halifax
    British Conservative Statesman (1881 - 1959)
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