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There is a huge shift taking place in the global awareness in the last 5 years with strong views about globalization and the power structures… — David Korten
Man is concentric: you have to take fold after fold off of him before you get to the centre of his personality. You must get… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin
A man finds he has been wrong at every stage of his career, only to deduce the astonishing conclusion that he is at last entirely… — Robert Louis Stevenson
Government lasts as long as the under-taxed can defend themselves against the over-taxed. — Bernard Berenson
Free is not an alternative. My company did not turn a profit last year. — Howard Stringer
When the nazis came to power, I looked to the universities that prided themselves upon their intellectual freedom, and they failed me. I looked to… — Albert Einstein
I think that the dying pray at the last not please but thank you, as a guest thanks his host at the door. Falling from… — Annie Dillard
The winner is the one who makes the next-to-last mistake. — Savielly Tartakower
If there is a gun hanging on the wall in the first act, it must fire in the last. — Anton Chekhov
Time is what makes good stories. Much has been cooking for a long time, and at last finds an out in narration one day. That's… — Barry Hannah
A creative writing class may be one of the last places you can go where your life still matters. — Richard Hugo
Very few people who met my adoptive mother in the last 20 years of her life could abide her, while many people who have seen… — Edward Albee
One of the most helpful things that anybody can learn is to give up trying to catch the last eighth - or the first. These… — Jesse Lauriston Livermore
Abortion... was probably regarded by the average Roman of the later days of Paganism much as Englishmen in the last century regarded convivial excesses, as… — William Edward Hartpole Lecky
I consider myself 100 percent a feminist, at odds with the feminist establishment in America. For me the great mission of feminism is to seek… — Camille Paglia
Ever since I was a kid, I've been into clothes, but not really labels- that's kind of only been in the last year or so.… — Lorde
"a fatal and perhaps fateful error of judgment" "...this was the last chance for the United Nations to get a grip on themselves and apply… — Alec Douglas-Home
True success is always the last of a string of failed attempts to get it right. — Walter Inglis Anderson
I wish those people who write so glibly about this being a holy war and the orators who talk so much about going on, no… — Vera Brittain
I think they're in the last throes, if you will, of the insurgency. — Dick Cheney

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