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  • Arthur Christopher Benson All the best stories in the world are but one story in reality - the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape.
    Arthur Christopher Benson
    English essayist, poet, author and academic (1862 - 1925)
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  • Barbara Kruger All the gossip and craziness becomes a kind of sustained narrative which, in turn, can become history. It's scary.
    Barbara Kruger
    American artist (1945 - )
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  • Wallace Stevens All the great things have been denied and we live in an intricacy of new and local mythologies, political, economic, poetic, which are asserted with an ever-enlarging incoherence.
    Wallace Stevens
    American poet (1879 - 1955)
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  • Bhagat Singh All the political movements of our country that have hitherto played any important role in our modern history had been lacking in the ideal at the achievement of which they aimed. Revolutionary movement is no exception.
    Bhagat Singh
    Indian socialist revolutionary (1907 - 1931)
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  • C. S. Lewis All their life in this world and all their adventures in Narnia had only been the cover and the title page: now at last they were beginning Chapter One of the Great Story which no one on earth has read: which goes on for ever: in which every chapter is better than the one before.
    The Chronicles of Narnia (1950) The Last Battle (1956), Closing lines, in Ch. 16 :
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • James Joyce All things are inconstant except the faith in the soul, which changes all things and fills their inconstancy with light, but though I seem to be driven out of my country as a misbeliever I have found no man yet with a faith like mine.
    James Joyce
    Irish writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Ovid All things change, nothing is extinguished. There is nothing in the whole world which is permanent. Everything flows onward; all things are brought into being with a changing nature; the ages themselves glide by in constant movement.
    Ovid
    Roman poet (43 - 17)
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  • Ovid All things human hang by a slender thread; and that which seemed to stand strong suddenly falls and sinks in ruins.
    Ovid
    Roman poet (43 - 17)
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  • Norman Cousins All this sensory input, which begins in the brain, has its effect throughout the body.
    Norman Cousins
    American Editor, Humanitarian, Author (1915 - 1990)
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  • Abdurrahman Wahid All too many Muslims fail to grasp Islam, which teaches one to be lenient towards others and to understand their value systems, knowing that these are tolerated by Islam as a religion.
    Abdurrahman Wahid
    Indonesian politican and Muslim leader (1940 - 2009)
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  • Alfred Marshall All wealth consists of desirable things; that is, things which satisfy human wants directly or indirectly: but not all desirable things are reckoned as wealth.
    Alfred Marshall
    British economist (1842 - 1924)
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  • Alfred Marshall All wealth consists of desirable things; that is, things which satisfy human wants directly or indirectly: but not all desirable things are reckoned as wealth.
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  • Samuel Johnson Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Bertrand Russell Almost everything that distinguishes the modern world from earlier centuries is attributable to science, which achieved its most spectacular triumphs in the seventeenth century.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Jonathan Swift Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of.
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • Bernard M. Baruch Although the shooting war is over, we are in the midst of a cold war which is getting warmer.
    Speech before the Senates Special Committee Investigating the National Defense Program
    Bernard M. Baruch
    American investor, philanthropist, statesman, and political consultant (1870 - 1965)
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  • Thomas Dunn English Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.
    Thomas Dunn English
    American politician (1819 - 1902)
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  • W. H. Auden America has always been a country of amateurs where the professional, that is to say, the man who claims authority as a member of an élite which knows the law in some field or other, is an object of distrust and resentment.
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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  • C. Wright Mills America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the political capital, and the financial hub.
    C. Wright Mills
    American sociologist (1916 - 1962)
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  • James Fenimore Cooper America owes most of its social prejudices to the exaggerated religious opinions of the different sects which were so instrumental in establishing the colonies.
    James Fenimore Cooper
    American writer (1789 - 1851)
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