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• No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our… — Hannah Arendt
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• I sort of enjoy the fact that I'm misunderstood most of the time. That's fine. — Billie Joe Armstrong
• Ironically, the first thing that appealed to me about Islam was its pluralism. The fact that the Koran praises all… — Karen Armstrong
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• I can mention many moments that were unforgettable and revelatory. But the most single revelatory three minutes was the first… — David Attenborough
• In fact, I thought that Christianity was very a good and a very valuable thing for us. But after a… — Chinua Achebe
• I don't run a car, have never run a car. I could say that this is because I have this… — David Attenborough
• In the old days... it was a basic, cardinal fact that producers didn't have opinions. When I was producing natural… — David Attenborough
• I'm a strict, strict agnostic. It's very different from a casual, 'I don't know.' It's that you cannot present as… — Margaret Atwood
• It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about… — Wystan Hugh Auden

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