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"Sometimes, when one person is absent, the whole world seems depopulated"

By Allphonse de Lamartine

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"Statistics are like a drunk with a lampost: used more for support than illumination."

By Sir Winston Churchill

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"Sometimes it falls upon a generation to be great. You can be that great generation."

By Nelson Mandela

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"Science ... warns me to be careful how I adopt a view which jumps with my preconceptions, and to require stronger evidence for such belief than for one to which I was previously hostile. My business is to teach my aspirations to conform themselves to fact, not to try and make facts harmonize with my aspirations."

By Thomas Huxley

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"Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in."

By Leonardo da Vinci

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"She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit."

By W. Somerset Maugham

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"Statesmen may plan and speculate for liberty but it is religion and morality alone that can establish the principles upon which freedom can securely stand."

By John Adams

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"Supreme happiness will be the greatest cause of misery, and the perfection of wisdom the occassion of folly."

By Leonardo DaVinci, The notebooks of Leonardo DaVinci by Macurdy

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"Some forms of reality are so horrible we refuse to face them, unless we are trapped into it by comedy. To label any subject unsuitable for comedy is to admit defeat."

By Peter Sellers

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"Share your M&Ms. There are bags and bags of them all over the place. If you give them one of yours, even one of the green ones, you will not be lacking. Honust Injun. Now apply this to Time, Concern, Touch, Interest and Being Vulnerable."

By Hugh Elliott, Standing Room Only weblog, 02-14-03

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"Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife,
Throughout the sensual world proclaim,
One crowded hour of glorious life,
Is worth an age without name."

By Thomas Osbert Mordaunt

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"So many Gods, so many creeds
So many ways that wind and wind,
While just the art of being kind
is all this sad world needs."

By Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Old postcard

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"Shall ignorance of good and ill
Dare to direct the eternal will?
Seek virtue, and of that possest,
To Providence resign the rest."

By Gay

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"So far as I am able to judge, nothing has been left undone, either by man or nature, to make India the most extraordinary country that the sun visits on his rounds. Nothing seems to have been forgotten, nothing overlooked."

By Mark Twain

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"She (India) has left indelible imprints on one fourth of the human race in the course of a long succession of centuries. She has the right to reclaim... her place amongst the great nations summarizing and symbolizing the spirit of humanity. From Persia to the Chinese sea, from the icy regions of Siberia to Islands of Java and Borneo, India has propagated her beliefs, her tales, and her civilization."

By Sylvia Levi

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"Suffering is none the less acute and much more lasting when it is put into words."

By Evelyn Waugh, Work Suspended (1943)

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"Social engaged intellectuals must accept reality as they found it and shape it toward positive social goals, not stand aside in self-righteous isolation."

By John Dewey

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"She is a peacock in everything but beauty."

By Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

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"Sundown, yellow moon, I replay the past. I know every scene by heart, they all went by so fast."

By Bob Dylan, "If you see her, say hello"

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"Some of my friends support the measure, and some of my friends oppose it. I support my friends."

By Everett Dirksen, Answering a question about a controversial senate bill. Quoted on a political talk show on WBEZ FM in Chicago.

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