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Category: who am I Graciousness has been replaced by surliness in much of everyday life. -Margaret Thatcher, interview, The Washington Post (Washington, D.C.), 1989 inShare Share A. E. Housman, No. IX, Last Poems, 1922
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Category: who am I The salvation of this human world lies nowhere else than in the human heart, in the human power to reflect, in human meekness and human responsibility. -Václav Havel, quoted in The International Herald Tribune (Paris), 1990 inShare Share Martin Amis, quoted in The Guardian (London), 2001
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Category: who am I Our best destiny, as planetary cohabitants, is the development of what has been called "species consciousness"-something over and above nationalisms, blocs, religions, ethnicities. -Martin Amis, quoted in The Guardian (London), 2001 inShare Share Peace Pilgrim, Her Life and Work
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Category: who am I The price of peace is to abandon greed and replace it with giving, so that none will be spiritually injured by having more than they need while others in the world still have less than they need. - inShare Share Edna St. Vincent Millay, "Epitaph for the Race of Man," Wine from These Grapes, 1939
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Category: who am I ... What frosty fate's in store / For the warm blood of man,-man, out of ooze / But lately crawled, and climbing up the shore? -Edna St. Vincent Millay, "Epitaph for the Race of Man," Wine from These Grapes, 1939 inShare Share Germaine de Staël, The Influence of Literature upon Society, 1800
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Category: who am I Modern man must descend the spiral of his own absurdity to the lowest point; only then can he look beyond it. It is obviously impossible to get around it, jump over it, or simply avoid it. -Václav Havel, Disturbing the Peace, 1986 inShare Share Sam Harris, The End of Faith, 2005
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Category: About Life Quotes The great thing about attaining some level of success in your life is being spiritually in a place where you accept it and feel good about it ... and not be afraid that tomorrow it's going to end. -Oprah Winfrey, quoted by Robert Waldron, Oprah!, 1987 William Shakespeare, The Tempest, 1610 Written by Quotes Search Machine
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