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  • George Orwell The common people, on the whole, are still living in the world of absolute good and evil from which the intellectuals have long since escaped.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Billy Joe Saunders The Commonwealth is one of three belts I want to win before going for a world title.
    Billy Joe Saunders
    English professional boxer (1989 - )
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  • Wayne Dyer The components of anxiety, stress, fear, and anger do not exist independently of you in the world. They simply do not exist in the physical world, even though we talk about them as if they do.
    Wayne Dyer
    American philosopher, self-help author, and a motivational speaker. (1940 - 2015)
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  • Edward Bulwer-Lytton The conscience is the most flexible material in the world. Today you cannot stretch it over a mole hill; while tomorrow it can hide a mountain.
    Edward Bulwer-Lytton
    English writer and poet (1803 - 1873)
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  • Aleister Crowley The conscience of the world is so guilty that it always assumes that people who investigate heresies must be heretics; just as if a doctor who studies leprosy must be a leper. Indeed, it is only recently that science has been allowed to study anything without reproach.
    Aleister Crowley
    British occultist, writer, and mountaineer (1875 - 1947)
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  • Gore Vidal The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western World. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity - much less dissent.
    Gore Vidal
    American writer and criticus (1925 - 2012)
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  • Benjamin E. Mays The creation of the spiritual was no accident. It was a creation born of necessity, so that the slave might more adequately adjust himself to the conditions of the New World.
    Benjamin E. Mays
    American Baptist minister and civil rights leader (1894 - 1984)
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  • Amartya Sen The curriculum of the school did not neglect India's cultural, analytical and scientific heritage, but was very involved also with the rest of the world.
    Amartya Sen
    Indian economist and philospher
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  • Susan B. Anthony The day may be approaching when the whole world will recognize woman as the equal of man.
    Susan B. Anthony
    American women's rights activist (1820 - 1906)
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  • Lord George Byron The dead have been awakened - shall I sleep? The world's at war with tyrants - shall I crouch? the harvest's ripe - and shall I pause to reap? I slumber not; the thorn is in my couch; Each day a trumpet soundeth in mine ear, its echo in my heart.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Hannah Arendt The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the outstanding event of the last decade.
    Hannah Arendt
    German-born American political theorist (1906 - 1975)
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  • Mahatma Gandhi The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problems.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • Alan Watts The difficulty for most of us in the modern world is that the old-fashioned idea of God has become incredible or implausible.
    Alan Watts
    English philosopher, priest and writer (1915 - 1973)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world. In this long vigil he often has to vary his methods of stimulation; but in this long vigil he is also himself striving against a continual tendency to sleep.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Arthur Henderson The Disarmament Conference has become the focal point of a great struggle between anarchy and world order... between those who think in terms of inevitable armed conflict and those who seek to build a universal and durable peace.
    Arthur Henderson
    British Labour politician
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton The discovery of this strange society was a curiously refreshing thing; to realize that there were ten new trades in the world was like looking at the first ship or the first plough. It made a man feel what he should feel, that he was still in the childhood of the world.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • C. S. Lewis The doctrine of the Second Coming has failed, so far as we are concerned, if it does not make us realize that at every moment of every year in our lives Donne's question What if this present were the world's last night? is equally relevant.
    Source: The Worlds Last Night (1952)
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • C. S. Lewis The doctrine of the Second Coming teaches us that we do not and cannot know when the world drama will end. The curtain may be rung down at any moment: say, before you have finished reading this paragraph.
    Source: The Worlds Last Night (1952)
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Stephen Hawking The downside of my celebrity is that I cannot go anywhere in the world without being recognized. It is not enough for me to wear dark sunglasses and a wig. The wheelchair gives me away.
    Stephen Hawking
    English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, author and Director (1942 - 2018)
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  • Henry Miller The dreamer whose dreams are non-utilitarian has no place in this world. In this world the poet is anathema, the thinker a fool, the artist an escapist, the man of vision a criminal.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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