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  • Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a certain potency of life in them, to be as active as the soul whose progeny they are; they preserve, as in a vial, the purest efficacy and extraction of the living intellect that bred them.
  • Here we stand in the middle of this new world with our primitive brain, attuned to the simple cave life, with terrific forces at our disposal, which we are clever enough to release, but whose consequences we cannot comprehend.
  • I studied Japanese language and culture in college and graduate school, and afterward went to work in Tokyo, where I met a young man whose father was a famous businessman and whose mother was a geisha.
  • Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.
  • I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.
  • The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don't like their rules, whose would you use?
  • A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.
  • Progress, under whose feet the grass mourns and the forest turns into paper from which newspaper plants grow, has subordinated the purpose of life to the means of subsistence and turned us into the nuts and bolts for our tools.
  • The greatest of all the Sioux in my time, or in any time for that matter, was that wonderful old fighting man, Sitting Bull, whose life will some day be written by a historian who can really give him his due.
  • A society in which all men and women would become people of substantive reason, whose independent reasoning would have structural consequences for their societies, its history and thus for their own life fates.
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  • Victor Hugo An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.
    Victor Hugo
    French writer (1802 - 1885)
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  • Gloria Steinem Being misunderstood by people whose opinions you value is absolutely the most painful.
    Gloria Steinem
    American feminist writer (1934 - )
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  • Madonna Poor is the man whose pleasures depend on the permission of another.
    Madonna
    American musician, singer and actress (1958 - )
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  • Sun Tzu The general who advances without coveting fame and retreats without fearing disgrace, whose only thought is to protect his country and do good service for his sovereign, is the jewel of the kingdom.
    Sun Tzu
    Chinese general and strategist (544 - 496)
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  • Horace A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.
    Horace
    Roman poet
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson A weed is a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Lord Chesterfield Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things it is unattainable. However, they who aim at it, and persevere, will come much nearer to it than those whose laziness and despondency make them give it up as unattainable.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Adolf Hitler Any alliance whose purpose is not the intention to wage war is senseless and useless.
    Adolf Hitler
    German politician (1889 - 1945)
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  • Jean-Luc Godard Beauty is composed of an eternal, invariable element whose quantity is extremely difficult to determine, and a relative element which might be, either by turns or all at once, period, fashion, moral, passion.
    Jean-Luc Godard
    French film director (1930 - 2022)
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  • Oswald Chambers Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time.
    Oswald Chambers
    Scottish preacher, writer (1874 - 1917)
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  • Louisa May Alcott Happy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged.
    Louisa May Alcott
    American Author (1832 - 1888)
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  • Sun Tzu Hence that general is skilful in attack whose opponent does not know what to defend; and he is skilful in defense whose opponent does not know what to attack.
    Sun Tzu
    Chinese general and strategist (544 - 496)
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  • Aeschylus It is an easy thing for one whose foot is on the outside of calamity to give advice and to rebuke the sufferer.
    Aeschylus
    Greek dramatist (525 - 456)
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  • Bertrand Russell Love should be a tree whose roots are deep in the earth, but whose branches extend into heaven.
    Marriage and Morals (1929) ch. 19
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Rabindranath Tagore No civilized society can thrive upon victims, whose humanity has been permanently mutilated.
    Rabindranath Tagore
    Indian mystic and poet (1861 - 1941)
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  • Victor Hugo Nothing else in the world...not all the armies...is so powerful as an idea whose time has come.
    Victor Hugo
    French writer (1802 - 1885)
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  • John Keats Praise or blame has but a momentary effect on the man whose love of beauty in the abstract makes him a severe critic on his own works.
    John Keats
    English poet (1795 - 1821)
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  • Henry David Thoreau That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Theodore Roosevelt The men and women who have the right ideals... are those who have the courage to strive for the happiness which comes only with labor and effort and self-sacrifice, and those whose joy in life springs in part from power of work and sense of duty.
    Theodore Roosevelt
    American statesman (1858 - 1919)
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  • Voltaire The Pope is an idol whose hands are tied and whose feet are kissed.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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