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  • Heraclitus Men who wish to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details.
    Heraclitus
    Greek philosopher (540 - 480)
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  • Faith Baldwin Men's private self-worlds are rather like our geographical world's seasons, storm, and sun, deserts, oases, mountains and abysses, the endless-seeming plateaus, darkness and light, and always the sowing and the reaping.
    Faith Baldwin
    American author of romance and fiction (1893 - 1978)
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  • Mahatma Gandhi Mental violence has no potency and injures only the person whose thoughts are violent. It is otherwise with mental non-violence. It has potency which the world does not yet know.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • William Butler Yeats Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, the blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere the ceremony of innocence is drowned.
    William Butler Yeats
    Irish poet (1865 - 1939)
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  • Albert Camus Methods of thought which claim to give the lead to our world in the name of revolution have become, in reality, ideologies of consent and not of rebellion.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Edith Hamilton Mind and spirit together make up that which separates us from the rest of the animal world, that which enables a man to know the truth and that which enables him to die for the truth.
    Edith Hamilton
    American educator and author (1867 - 1963)
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  • C. S. Lewis Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Bruce Lipton Modern science is predicated on 'truths' verified through accurate observation and measurements of physical world phenomena.
    Bruce Lipton
    American developmental biologist (1944 - )
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  • George Bernard Shaw Money is indeed the most important thing in the world; and all sound and successful personal and national morality should have this fact for its basis.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity, and beauty as conspicuously as the want of it represents illness, weakness, disgrace, meanness, and ugliness.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Albert Camus More and more, when faced with the world of men, the only reaction is one of individualism. Man alone is an end unto himself. Everything one tries to do for the common good ends in failure.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Bill Bryson More than 300 million people in the world speak English and the rest, it sometimes seems, try to.
    Bill Bryson
    American-British author (1951 - )
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  • Benjamin Millepied Most dancers have no awareness of how they look; half of them think they're fat. There is anorexia in the ballet world; there are those things.
    Benjamin Millepied
    French dancer and choreographer (1977 - )
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  • Barbara Corcoran Most great entrepreneurs I know are nothing like the other kids. They're almost like tangent lines - those lines that seem to go nowhere. Nothing connects them, until they get out in the real world. Then they connect just fine.
    Barbara Corcoran
    American businesswoman, investor, speaker and consultant (1949 - )
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  • Barry Humphries Most of my contemporaries at school entered the World of Business, the logical destiny of bores.
    Barry Humphries
    Australian comedian, actor, artist, and author (1934 - 2023)
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  • Robert South Most of the appearance of mirth in the world is not mirth, it is art. The wounded spirit is not seen, but walks under a disguise.
    Robert South
    English churchman (1634 - 1716)
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  • Dale Carnegie Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no help at all.
    Dale Carnegie
    American writer and lecturer (1888 - 1955)
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  • Alan Moore Most of the people who get sent to die in wars are young men who've got a lot of energy and would probably rather, in a better world, be putting that energy into copulation rather than going over there and blowing some other young man's guts out.
    Alan Moore
    English writer (1953 - )
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  • Louis D. Brandeis Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done.
    Louis D. Brandeis
    American lawyer and associate justice on the Supreme Court (1856 - 1941)
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  • T. S. Eliot Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important.
    T. S. Eliot
    British essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic (1888 - 1965)
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