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Every morning our newspapers could read, 'More than 20,000 people perished yesterday of extreme poverty.' How? The poor die in hospital wards that lack drugs,… — Jeffrey Sachs
I would die happy if I knew that on my tombstone could be written these words, "This man was an absolute fool. None of the… — Lewis Mumford
If a man could say nothing against a character but what he can prove, history could not be written. — Samuel Johnson
To those who cite the first amendment as reason for excluding God from more and more of our institutions and everyday life, may I just… — Ronald Reagan
If woman had no existence save in the fiction written by men, one would imagine her a person of utmost importance; very various; heroic and… — Virginia Woolf
For, as it is written in the book of the Prophets: 'And the angel that spoke in me, said to me...' He does not say,… — Saint Augustine
What should I have known or written had I been a quiet, mercantile politician or a lord in waiting? A man must travel, and turmoil,… — Lord Byron
Ender's Game is set more than a century in the future and has nothing to do with political issues that did not exist when the… — Orson Scott Card
Modern civilization is largely devoted to the pursuit of the cult of delusion. There is no general information about the nature of mind. It is… — Sogyal Rinpoche
The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything. — Walter Bagehot
I saw that everything really was written there before me, and that the doors had only been closed before because I hadn't realized that I… — Paulo Coelho
Among all the occurrences possible in the universe the a priori probability of any particular one of them verges upon zero. Yet the universe exists;… — Jacques Monod
Man at last knows that he is alone in the unfeeling immensity of the universe, out of which he emerged only by chance. Neither his… — Jacques Monod
No words can express how much the world owes to sorrow. Most of the Psalms were born in the wilderness. Most of the Epistles were… — George MacDonald
I have trusted to my intuition to find the subjects, and I have written intuitively. I have an idea when I start, I have a… — V.S. Naipaul
In the beginning was the Word. It doesn't say in the beginning was God. In the beginning was the Word because in the very beginning… — Harbhajan Singh Yogi
Know thyself! This is the source of all wisdom, said the great thinkers of the past, and the sentence was written in golden letters on… — Karl Ernst von Baer
The words are strung together, with their own special grammar-the laws of quantum theory-to form sentences, which are molecules. Soon we have books, entire libraries,… — Heinz Pagels
Could Hamlet have been written by a committee, or the "Mona Lisa" painted by a club? Could the New Testament have been composed as a… — Alfred Whitney Griswold
I'm gradually managing to cram my mind more and more full of things. I've got this beautiful mind and it's going to die, and it'll… — Isaac Asimov
Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face. — Edward Steichen
After the cheers have died down and the stadium is empty, after the headlines have been written and after you are back in the quiet… — Vince Lombardi
An empty book is like an infant's soul, in which anything may be written. It is capable of all things, but containeth nothing. I have… — Thomas Traherne
No literature is complete until the language it was written in is dead. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
You know lots of criticism is written by characters who are very academic and think it is a sign you are worthless if you make… — Ernest Hemingway

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