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  • Henry David Thoreau The pleasure we feel in music springs from the obedience which is in it.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg The pleasures of the imagination are as it were only drawings and models which are played with by poor people who cannot afford the real thing.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Joseph Brodsky The poetic notion of infinity is far greater than that which is sponsored by any creed.
    Joseph Brodsky
    Russian-born American Poet, Critic (1940 - 1996)
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  • Agatha Christie The popular idea that a child forgets easily is not an accurate one. Many people go right through life in the grip of an idea which has been impressed on them in very tender years.
    Agatha Christie
    British writer (1890 - 1976)
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  • Quentin Crisp The poverty from which I have suffered could be diagnosed as ''Soho'' poverty. It comes from having the airs and graces of a genius and no talent.
    Quentin Crisp
    English writer and actor (1908 - 1999)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The power which resides in man is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Bernard Crick The praise of free men is worth having, for it is the only praise which is free from either servility or condescension.
    In Defence Of Politics Ch. 7, In Praise Of Politics, p. 140
    Bernard Crick
    British political theorist (1929 - 2008)
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  • Eric Hoffer The pre-human creature from which man evolved was unlike any other living thing in its malicious viciousness toward its own kind. Humanization was not a leap forward but a groping toward survival.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Bastian Schweinsteiger The Premier League is a very strong league. Chelsea, Manchester City, Arsenal, and Liverpool all have a high quality. But those who know me also know that I always want to win titles. And I think that Manchester United are a club which can win titles.
    Bastian Schweinsteiger
    German professional footballer (1984 - )
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  • Brad Sherman The President forgot to mention the Moon, Mars, and the federal deficit - all of which are sky-high.
    Brad Sherman
    American politician (1954 - )
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  • Karl Kraus The press, that goiter of the world, swells up with the desire for conquest and bursts with the achievements which every day brings. A week has room for the boldest climax of the human drive for expansion.
    Karl Kraus
    Austrian writer and journalist (1874 - 1936)
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  • Carl Bernstein The pressure to compete, the fear somebody else will make the splash first, creates a frenzied environment in which a blizzard of information is presented and serious questions may not be raised.
    Carl Bernstein
    American investigative journalist and author (1944 - )
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  • John Lennon The pressures of being a parent are equal to any pressure on earth. To be a conscious parent, and really look to that little being's mental and physical health, is a responsibility which most of us, including me, avoid most of the time because it's too hard.
    John Lennon
    British musician (1940 - 1980)
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  • William James The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Iris Murdoch The priesthood is a marriage. People often start by falling in love, and they go on for years without realizing that love must change into some other love which is so unlike it that it can hardly be recognized as love at all.
    Iris Murdoch
    Anglo-Irish novelist and philosopher (1919 - 1999)
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  • Marquis de Sade The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of crimes, she conserves it by means of crimes only.
    Marquis de Sade
    French aristocrat, writer, politician and philosopher (1740 - 1814)
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  • James Baldwin The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid: the state of being alone.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Bayard Rustin The principal factors which influenced my life are 1) nonviolent tactics; 2) constitutional means; 3) democratic procedures; 4) respect for human personality; 5) a belief that all people are one.
    Bayard Rustin
    American activist (1912 - 1987)
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  • Walter Lippmann The principles of the good society call for a concern with an order of being - which cannot be proved existentially to the sense organs - where it matters supremely that the human person is inviolable, that reason shall regulate the will, that truth shall prevail over error.
    Walter Lippmann
    American writer, reporter, and political commentator (1889 - 1974)
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  • Albert Camus The principles which men give to themselves end by overwhelming their noblest intentions.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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