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  • Albert Camus Children will still die unjustly even in a perfect society. Even by his greatest effort, man can only propose to diminish, arithmetically, the sufferings of the world.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Albert Schweitzer Day by day we should weigh what we have granted to the spirit of the world against what we have denied to the spirit of Jesus, in thought and especially in deed.
    Albert Schweitzer
    German physician, theologian, philosopher, musician (1875 - 1965)
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  • Bertolt Brecht Do not rejoice in his defeat, you men. For though the world has stood up and stopped the bastard, the bitch that bore him is in heat again.
    Referring to Arturo Ui (representing Adolf Hitler), in The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui (1941)
    Bertolt Brecht
    German - Austrian writer (1898 - 1956)
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  • Ambrose Bierce Dog. A kind of additional or subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the world's worship.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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  • C. A. R. Hoare Due credit must be paid to the genius of the designers of ALGOL 60 who included recursion in their language and enabled me to describe my invention so elegantly to the world.
    The Emperors Old Clothes
    C. A. R. Hoare
    British computer scientist
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  • Gerda Lerner Everything that explains the world has in fact explained a world that does not exist, a world in which men are at the center of the human enterprise and women are at the margin ''helping'' them. Such a world does not exist - never has.
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  • Thomas Fuller Fame is the echo of actions, resounding them to the world, save that the echo repeats only the last art, but fame relates all, and often more than all.
    Thomas Fuller
    English preacher and writer (1608 - 1661)
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  • Arthur Peacocke For many decades now - and certainly during my adult life in academe - the Western intellectual world has not been convinced that theology is a pursuit that can be engaged in with intellectual honesty and integrity.
    Arthur Peacocke
    English Anglican theologian and biochemist (1924 - 2006)
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  • George Eliot For what we call illusions are often, in truth, a wider vision of past and present realities -a willing movement of a man's soul with the larger sweep of the world's forces -a movement towards a more assured end than the chances of a single life.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Antonio Porchia He who does not fill his world with phantoms remains alone.
    Antonio Porchia
    Argentinian poet (1885 - 1968)
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  • Ambrose Bierce Heaven lies about us in our infancy and the world begins lying about us pretty soon afterward.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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  • Antonin Artaud Hell is of this world and there are men who are unhappy escapees from hell, escapees destined ETERNALLY to reenact their escape.
    Antonin Artaud
    French producer and actor (1896 - 1948)
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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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  • Thomas Alva Edison I find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.
    Thomas Alva Edison
    American inventor and founder of General Electric (1847 - 1931)
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  • Thomas Alva Edison I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.
    Thomas Alva Edison
    American inventor and founder of General Electric (1847 - 1931)
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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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  • Thomas Alva Edison I know this world is ruled by infinite intelligence. Everything that surrounds us - everything that exists - proves that there are infinite laws behind it. There can be no denying this fact. It is mathematical in its precision.
    Thomas Alva Edison
    American inventor and founder of General Electric (1847 - 1931)
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  • Ludwig Wittgenstein If we spoke a different language, we would perceive a somewhat different world.
    Ludwig Wittgenstein
    Austrian - English philosopher (1889 - 1951)
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  • Napoleon If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.
    Napoleon
    French Emperor (1769 - 1821)
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  • Betsy Beers In a world where shows have to keep going while the priorities change, I have to stay flexible.
    Betsy Beers
    American television and film producer (1957 - )
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