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  • Susan Sontag Camp is a vision of the world in terms of style - but a particular kind of style. It is love of the exaggerated.
    Susan Sontag
    American writer, filmmaker, teacher, and political activist (1933 - 2004)
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  • Anna Garlin Spencer Can a woman become a genius of the first class? Nobody can know unless women in general shall have equal opportunity with men in education, in vocational choice, and in social welcome of their best intellectual work for a number of generations.
    Anna Garlin Spencer
    American educator and feminist (1851 - 1931)
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  • Buddha Can there be joy and laughter When always the world is ablaze? Enshrouded in darkness Should you not seek a light?
    Source: Dhammapada
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • Al Capone Capitalism is the legitimate racket of the ruling class.
    Al Capone
    American gangster and businessman (1899 - 1947)
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  • Ann Druyan Carl took on the military-industrial complex. He campaigned around the world for an end to the production of weapons of mass destruction. To him it was a perversion of science.
    Ann Druyan
    American writer (1949 - )
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  • Benjamin Graham Cartels have spread and will spread as long as the world lacks an effective mechanism by which balanced expansion may be achieved without a resulting disruption of prices.
    Source: World Commodities and World Currencies Ch. II, The Issue of Cartels, p. 21
    Benjamin Graham
    British-born American economist, professor and investor (1894 - 1976)
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  • Thomas Carlyle Cash-payment never was, or could except for a few years be, the union-bond of man to man. Cash never yet paid one man fully his deserts to another; nor could it, nor can it, now or henceforth to the end of the world.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Bruce Cockburn Catching the light and falling into dark
    And the world fades out like an overheard remark...
    In the falling dark
    Source: In The Falling Dark (1976) Title track, In The Falling Dark (See also: John M
    Bruce Cockburn
    Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist (1945 - )
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  • Anne Sullivan Macy Certain periods in history suddenly lift humanity to an observation point where a clear light falls upon a world previously dark.
    Anne Sullivan Macy
    American teacher (1866 - 1936)
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  • Thomas Traherne Certainly Adam in Paradise had not more sweet and curious apprehensions of the world, than I when I was a child.
    Thomas Traherne
    British Clergyman, Poet, Mystic (1636 - 1674)
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  • Benjamin Netanyahu Certainly the international community is putting a lot of pressure on Iran and making clear that its nuclear program must stop. If it stops with the sanctions, the combinations of sanctions, diplomacy, other pressures, I, as the prime minister of Israel, will be the happiest person in the world.
    Benjamin Netanyahu
    Israeli politician (2009 - )
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  • Norman Vincent Peale Change your thoughts and you change your world.
    Norman Vincent Peale
    American minister and author (1898 - 1993)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Sir Thomas Browne Charity But how shall we expect charity towards others, when we are uncharitable to ourselves? Charity begins at home, is the voice of the world; yet is every man his greatest enemy, and, as it were, his own executioner.
    Sir Thomas Browne
    British author, physician and philosopher (1605 - 1682)
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  • Logan Pearsall Smith Charming people live up to the very edge of their charm, and behave as outrageously as the world lets them.
    Logan Pearsall Smith
    English writer (1865 - 1946)
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  • Carl Sandburg CHICAGO: Hog Butcher for the World, Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat, Player with Railroads and the Nation's Freight Handler; Stormy, husky, brawling, City of the Big Shoulders.
    Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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  • John Bradshaw Children are curious and are risk takers. They have lots of courage. They venture out into a world that is immense and dangerous. A child initially trusts life and the processes of life.
    John Bradshaw
    American educator, counselor, motivational speaker, and author (1933 - 2016)
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  • George Eliot Children demand that their heroes should be freckleless, and easily believe them so: perhaps a first discovery to the contrary is less revolutionary shock to a passionate child than the threatened downfall of habitual beliefs which makes the world seem to totter for us in maturer life.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Anthony Hecht Children know from a remarkably early age that things are being kept from them, that grown-ups participate in a world of mysteries.
    Anthony Hecht
    American poet (1923 - 2004)
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  • Ben Bernanke China is growing very quickly and is clearly becoming an important player in the world economy.
    Ben Bernanke
    American economist (1953 - )
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