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  • John Lennon Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn't argue with that; I'm right and I will be proved right. We're more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first - rock and roll or Christianity.
    John Lennon
    British musician (1940 - 1980)
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  • A. E. van Vogt Chum was a British boy's weekly which, at the end of the year was bound into a single huge book; and the following Christmas parents bought it as Christmas presents for male children.
    A. E. van Vogt
    Canadian-born science fiction author (1912 - 2000)
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  • Bela Lugosi Circumstances made me the theatrical personality I am, which many people believe is also a part of my personal life.
    Bela Lugosi
    Hungarian-American actor (1882 - 1956)
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  • Alfred N. Whitehead Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking.
    Alfred N. Whitehead
    English philosopher and mathematician (1861 - 1947)
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  • Oscar Wilde Civilization is not by any means an easy thing to attain to. There are only two ways by which man can reach it. One is by being cultured, the other by being corrupt.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Thomas B. Aldrich Civilization is the lamb's skin in which barbarism masquerades.
    Thomas B. Aldrich
    American writer, editor (1836 - 1907)
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  • Arthur Keith Civilization, we shall find, like Universalism and Christianity, is anti evolutionary in its effects; it works against the laws and conditions which regulated the earlier stages of man's ascent.
    Arthur Keith
    Scottish anatomist and anthropologist (1866 - 1952)
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  • Mark Twain Classic. A book which people praise and don't read.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Ban Ki-moon Climate change does not respect border; it does not respect who you are - rich and poor, small and big. Therefore, this is what we call 'global challenges,' which require global solidarity.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Ban Kimoon Climate change does not respect border; it does not respect who you are - rich and poor, small and big. Therefore, this is what we call global challenges, which require global solidarity.
    Ban Kimoon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt Coercion may prevent many transgressions; but it robs even actions which are legal of a part of their beauty. Freedom may lead to many transgressions, but it lends even to vices a less ignoble form.
    Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt
    German statesman (1767 - 1835)
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  • Bo Burnham Comedy doesn't really matter that much; I know that. I treat it like an adult - I don't treat it like a child or a god, which some people do. This might just be in America, but 'stand-up comedy' is something very particular that I don't particularly relate to.
    Bo Burnham
    American comedian, musician, actor and poet (1990 - )
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  • William Hazlitt Comedy naturally wears itself out - destroys the very food on which it lives; and by constantly and successfully exposing the follies and weaknesses of mankind to ridicule, in the end leaves itself nothing worth laughing at.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Commerce is a game of skill which everyone cannot play and few can play well.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • René Daumal Common experience is the gold reserve which confers an exchange value on the currency which words are; without this reserve of shared experiences, all our pronouncements are checks drawn on insufficient funds.
    René Daumal
    French writer, philosopher and poet (1908 - 1944)
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  • Leonardo Da Vinci Common Sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses.
    Leonardo Da Vinci
    Italian painter, engineer and musician (1452 - 1519)
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  • Mao Tse-Tung Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy.
    Mao Tse-Tung
    Chinese politician (1893 - 1976)
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  • John Berger Compassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the basis of necessity. Compassion opposes this order and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural.
    John Berger
    English art critic, novelist, painter and poet (1926 - 2017)
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  • Cass Sunstein Concerned about re-election, interest-group reactions, the media, or fundraising, many legislators have found it in their interest to refuse to cooperate with members of the opposing party - or to treat them as enemies in some kind of war, in which the whole point is to defeat and humiliate them. But the American people have been the real losers.
    Cass Sunstein
    American legal scholar (1954 - )
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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