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George Orwell
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Quote: If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.
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Nelson Mandela
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Quote: Confront them with annihilation, and they will then survive; plunge them into a deadly situation, and they will then live. When people fall into danger, they are then able to strive for victory.
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Sun Tzu
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Quote: When you make love you're using up energy; and afterwards you feel happy and don't give a damn for anything. They can't bear you to feel like that. They want you to be bursting with energy all the time. All this marching up and down and cheering and waving flags is simply sex gone sour. If you're happy inside yourself, why should you get excited about Big Brother and the Three-Year Plans and the Two Minutes Hate and all the rest of their bloody rot?
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George Orwell
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Quote: Our ability to reach unity in diversity will be the beauty and the test of our civilization.
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Mahatma Gandhi
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Quote: Many badly needed goals, like fusion and cancer cure, would be achieved much sooner if we invested more.
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Stephen Hawking
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Quote: It is a feeling of relief, almost of pleasure, at knowing yourself at last genuinely down and out. You have talked so often of going to the dogs - and well, here are the dogs, and you have reached them, and you can stand it. It takes off a lot of anxiety.
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George Orwell
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Quote: I am nothing; I am but an instrument, a tiny pencil in the hands of the Lord with which He writes what he likes. However imperfect we are, he writes beautifully.
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Quote: Art is individualism, and individualism is a disturbing and disintegrating force.
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Oscar Wilde
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Quote: A great democracy has got to be progressive or it will soon cease to be great or a democracy.
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Theodore Roosevelt
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Quote: A vote is like a rifle: its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.
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Theodore Roosevelt
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Quote: The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.
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Albert Einstein
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Quote: There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.
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Oscar Wilde
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There is no such...

Quote: Tis not enough to help the feeble up, but to support them after.
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William Shakespeare
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Tis not enough to...

Quote: For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself.
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Winston Churchill
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Quote: Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization.
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Winston Churchill
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Quote: At the end of life we will not be judged by how many diplomas we have received, how much money we have made, how many great things we have done. We will be judged by I was hungry, and you gave me something to eat, I was naked and you clothed me. I was homeless, and you took me in.
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Mother Teresa
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Quote: Sometimes the poor are praised for being thrifty. But to recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting. It is like advising a man who is starving to eat less.
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Oscar Wilde
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Quote: Lord help my poor soul.
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Edgar Allan Poe
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Lord help my poor...

Quote: If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.
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Marcus Aurelius
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Quote: You ask, what is our aim? I can answer in one word. It is victory, victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory, however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival.
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Winston Churchill
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You ask, what is...

Quote: It put our energies to sleep and made visionaries of us - dreamers and indolent... It is good to begin life poor; it is good to begin life rich - these are wholesome; but to begin it prospectively rich! The man who has not experienced it cannot imagine the curse of it.
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Mark Twain
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Quote: In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity
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Albert Einstein
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Quote: Everything - a horse, a vine - is created for some duty... For what task, then, were you yourself created?
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Marcus Aurelius
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Quote: We Muslims believe that the white race, which is guilty of having oppressed and exploited and enslaved our people here in America, should and will be the victims of God's divine wrath.
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Malcolm X
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Quote: True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
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Winston Churchill
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True genius resides in...

Quote: When I'm back in New York - and this is a terrible thing to complain about - I eat a lot more really, really good food than perhaps I'd like to. So many of my friends are really good chefs. It's kind of like being in the Mafia.
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Anthony Bourdain
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Quote: If you like doing something, do it regularly; if you don’t like doing something, make a habit of doing something different. The same goes for moral inclinations. When you get angry, you should know that you aren’t guilty of an isolated lapse, you’ve encouraged a trend and thrown fuel on the fire.
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Marcus Aurelius
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Quote: I’m very definitely a woman and I enjoy it.
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Marilyn Monroe
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Quote: Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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