Ignazio Silone

On a group of theories one can found a school; but on a group of values one can found a culture, a civilization, a new way of living together among men.

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Judith Martin

We are born charming, fresh and spontaneous and must be civilized before we are fit to participate in society.

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Margaret Cho, weblog, 01-15-04

Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate.

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Noam Chomsky, in a television interview

As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.

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Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self Reliance (essay)

...the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness, the independence of solitude.

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Abraham Maslow

We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities, talents, direction, missions, callings.

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Tshunka Witko

One does not sell the earth upon which the people walk.

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Lewis Carroll

'What is the use of a book,' thought Alice, 'without pictures or conversations'

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John F. Kennedy

When we got into office, the thing that surprised me the most was that things were as bad as we'd been saying they were.

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Thomas Carlyle

It is the first of all problems for a man to find out what kind of work he is to do in this universe.

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Peter De Vries

When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims of intact ones.

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