France has neither winter nor summer nor morals. Apart from these drawbacks it is a fine country.
~ Mark Twain
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France has neither winter nor summer nor morals. Apart from these drawbacks it is a fine country.
~ Mark Twain
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Pat Benatar – Promises In The Dark (Live)
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Educators have yet to realize how deeply the industrial system is dependent upon them.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
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Creativity is the defeat of habit by originality.
~ Arthur Koestler
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The creator of the new composition in the arts is an outlaw until he is a classic.
~ Gertrude Stein
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A mass movement attracts and holds a following not because it can satisfy the desire for self-advancement, but because it can satisfy the passion for self-renunciation.
~ Eric Hoffer
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The comedy of man survives the tragedy of man.
~ G. K. Chesterton
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When the past is always with you, it may as well be present; and if it is present, it will be with you in the future as well.
~ William Gibson
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The mistake is to assume that rulers who came to power through institutions cannot change or destroy those very institutions—even when that is exactly what they have announced that they will do.
~ Timothy Snyder
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An artist’s only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else’s.
~ J.D. Salinger
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