George Eliot

There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.

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David Ben-Gurion

Courage is a special kind of knowledge the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought no to be feared.

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H. G. Wells

No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.

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Walter Lippmann

Because the results are expressed in numbers, it is easy to make the mistake of thinking that the intelligence test is a measure like a foot ruler or a pair of scales. It is, of course, a quite different sort of measure. Intelligence is not an abstraction like length and weight; it is an exceedingly complicated notion - which nobody has yet succeeded in defining.

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Ludwig Boerne

The secret of power is the knowledge that others are more cowardly than you are.

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Niels Bohr

Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future.

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Audrey Giorgi

Once in a while you have to take a break and visit yourself.

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Isaac Asimov

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.

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Pauline Kael

Her only flair is in her nostrils.

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Woodrow Wilson

The world must be made safe for democracy.

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Oscar Wilde

Religion is the fashionable substitute for belief.

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