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  • Ben Parr Building a successful company (or living a happy life, for that matter) is not about embracing someone else's philosophy, but staying true to your own beliefs about the world and learning from the mistakes you make along the way.
    Ben Parr
    American journalist, author, venture capitalist (1985 - )
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  • Armistead Maupin But I'm acutely aware that the possibility of fraud is even more prevalent in today's world because of the Internet and cell phones and the opportunity for instant communication with strangers.
    Armistead Maupin
    American writer (1944 - )
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  • Amelia Barr But the lover's power is the poet's power. He can make love from all the common strings with which this world is strung.
    Amelia Barr
    British novelist and teacher (1831 - 1919)
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  • Augustus Baldwin Longstreet But there were women in the world, and from them each of our heroes had taken to himself a wife. The good ladies were no strangers to the prowess of their husbands. and, strange as it may seem, they presumed a little upon it.
    Augustus Baldwin Longstreet
    American lawyer, minister, educator, and humorist (1790 - 1870)
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  • Barry McGuire But times changed, and I changed, and I didn't feel that way anymore. The Beatles were happening. I think that was probably the main thing. The Beatles just changed the whole world of music.
    Barry McGuire
    American singer-songwriter (1935 - )
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  • Alan Watts But we try to pretend, you see, that the external world exists altogether independently of us.
    Alan Watts
    English philosopher, priest and writer (1915 - 1973)
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  • Virginia Woolf But when the self speaks to the self, who is speaking? The entombed soul, the spirit driven in, in, in to the central catacomb; the self that took the veil and left the world - a coward perhaps, yet somehow beautiful, as it flits with its lantern restlessly up and down the dark corridors.
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Jonathan Swift But you think that it is time for me to have done with the world, and so I would if I could get into a better before I was called into the best, and not die here in a rage, like a poisoned rat in a hole.
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • Arianna Huffington But, in fact, there is nothing that can bring you closer to fearlessness about everything else in the world than being a parent - because everyday fears - like not being approved of - pale by comparison to the fears you have about your children.
    Arianna Huffington
    Greek-American author, syndicated columnist, and businesswoman (1950 - )
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  • Brian De Palma But, number one, I think traditional noir doesn't work in contemporary storytelling because we don't live in that world anymore.
    Brian De Palma
    American film director and screenwriter (1940 - )
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  • Barbara Demick By 2022, China is expected to cede the dubious distinction of being the world's most populous nation to India, according to the population division of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs.
    Barbara Demick
    American journalist
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  • Anne Morrow Lindbergh By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class.
    Anne Morrow Lindbergh
    American Author (1906 - 2001)
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  • Friedrich Engels By bourgeoisie is meant the class of modern capitalists, owners of the means of social production and employers of wage labor. By proletariat, the class of modern wage laborers who, having no means of production of their own, are reduced to selling their labor power in order to live.
    Friedrich Engels
    German industrialist, philosopher and social scientist (1820 - 1895)
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  • Mark Twain By common consent of all the nations and all the ages the most valuable thing in this world is the homage of men, whether deserved or undeserved.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Lao-Tzu By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try. The world is beyond the winning.
    Lao-Tzu
    Chinese philosopher (600 - 550)
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  • Bhagat Singh By Revolution, we mean the ultimate establishment of an order of society which may not be threatened by such breakdown, and in which the sovereignty of the proletariat should be recognized and a world federation should redeem humanity from the bondage of capitalism and misery of imperial wars.
    Source: As quoted in Bhagat Singh and His Ideology
    Bhagat Singh
    Indian socialist revolutionary (1907 - 1931)
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  • Ban Ki-moon By strengthening the three pillars of the United Nations - security, development and human rights - we can build a more peaceful, more prosperous and more just world for our succeeding generations.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Henry Vaughan Caesar had perished from the world of men, had not his sword been rescued by his pen.
    Henry Vaughan
    Welsh poet, author, translator and physician (1621 - 1695)
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  • Blaise Pascal Caesar was too old, it seems to me, to go off and amuse himself conquering the world. Such a pastime was all right for Augustus and Alexander; they were young men, not easily held in check, but Caesar ought to have been more mature.
    Source: Pensees (1669)
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • E. F. Schumacher Call a thing immoral or ugly, soul-destroying or a degradation of man, a peril to the peace of the world or to the well-being of future generations; as long as you have not shown it to be ''uneconomic'' you have not really questioned its right to exist, grow, and prosper.
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