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Quotes 261 till 279 of 279.

  • Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn Woe to that nation whose literature is cut short by the intrusion of force. This is not merely interference with freedom of the press but the sealing up of a nation's heart, the excision of its memory.
    Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn
    Russian Novelist (1918 - 2008)
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  • Joseph Conrad Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love - and to put its trust in life.
    Joseph Conrad
    In Poland born English writer (1857 - 1924)
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  • Albert Camus Work is nothing but the slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great images in whose presence [His Or Her] heart first opened.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Lewis Carroll Yet what are all such gaieties to me whose thoughts are full of indices and surds?
    Lewis Carroll
    British Writer, Mathematician (1832 - 1898)
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  • Johann Kaspar Lavater You may depend upon it that he is a good man whose intimate friends are all good, and whose enemies are decidedly bad.
    Johann Kaspar Lavater
    Swiss theologist and mysticist (1741 - 1801)
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  • Christopher Marlowe You stars that reigned at my nativity, whose influence hath allotted death and hell.
    Christopher Marlowe
    British Dramatist, Poet (1564 - 1593)
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  • Desiderius Erasmus You'll see certain Pythagorean whose belief in communism of property goes to such lengths that they pick up anything lying about unguarded, and make off with it without a qualm of conscience as if it had come to them by law.
    Desiderius Erasmus
    Dutch humanist and philosopher (1469 - 1536)
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  • Ambrose Bierce A cynic is a blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, and not as they ought to be.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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  • Abraham Joshua Heschel A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.
    Insecurity of Freedom
    Abraham Joshua Heschel
    Polish-American rabbi (1907 - 1972)
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  • Ambrose Bierce Cynic: A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be.
    The Devil's Dictionary
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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  • Albert Szent-Gyorgyi 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.
    Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
    Hungarian physician and Nobel Prize winner in Medicine (1893 - 1986)
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  • Bram Stoker How blessed are some people, whose lives have no fears, no dreads; to whom sleep is a blessing that comes nightly, and brings nothing but sweet dreams.
    Dracula
    Bram Stoker
    Irish author (1847 - 1912)
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  • Thomas Alva Edison I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.
    Thomas Alva Edison
    American inventor and founder of General Electric (1847 - 1931)
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  • Albert Schweitzer Revenge... is like a rolling stone, which, when a man hath forced up a hill, will return upon him with a greater violence, and break those bones whose sinews gave it motion.
    Albert Schweitzer
    German physician, theologian, philosopher, musician (1875 - 1965)
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  • Simone Weil The afflicted are not listened to. They are like someone whose tongue has been cut out and who occasionally forgets the fact. When they move their lips no ear perceives any sound. And they themselves soon sink into impotence in the use of language, because of the certainty of not being heard.
    Simone Weil
    French philosopher (1909 - 1943)
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  • Denis Diderot The most dangerous madmen are those created by religion, and people whose aim is to disrupt society always know how to make good use of them on occasion.
    Denis Diderot
    French philosopher (1713 - 1784)
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  • Jacob Bronowski The values by which we are to survive are not rules for just and unjust conduct, but are those deeper illuminations in whose light justice and injustice, good and evil, means and ends are seen in fearful sharpness of outline.
    Jacob Bronowski
    British Scientist, Author (1908 - 1974)
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  • Simone Weil Two prisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. The wall is the thing which separates them but is also their means of communication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link.
    Simone Weil
    French philosopher (1909 - 1943)
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  • Simone Weil When once a certain class of people has been placed by the temporal and spiritual authorities outside the ranks of those whose life has value, then nothing comes more naturally to men than murder.
    Simone Weil
    French philosopher (1909 - 1943)
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