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The thread on which the different good qualities of human beings are strung as pearls, is the fear of God. When the fastenings of this fear are unloosed, the pearls roll in all directions, and are lost one by one.

Orchot Tzaddikim

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Orchot Tzaddikim. 15th century, introduction, no. 19.

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Orchos Tzaddikim: A Treasure for Life Commentary by Rabbi Avrohom G. Yachnes. Feldheim Publishers, 2016, introduction.

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It would be simplistic to say that Divine Providence caused the fall of communism. It fell by itself as a consequence of its own mistakes and abuses. It fell by itself because of its own inherent weakness

Pope John Paul II

Upon being asked if the fall of the USSR could be ascribed to God.

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Pope John Paul II. Quoted in His Holiness: John Paul II and the Hidden History of Our Time, written by Carl Bernstein and Marco Politi. Doubleday, 1996.

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Let woman then go on-not asking favors, but claiming as a right the removal of all hindrances to her elevation in the scale of being-let her receive encouragement for the proper cultivation of all her powers, so that she may enter profitably into the active business of life... Then in the marriage union, the independence of the husband and wife will be equal, their dependence mutual, and their obligations reciprocal.

Lucretia Mott

Discourse on Woman

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Mott, Lucretia. "Discourse on Woman." 17 Dec. 1849, Philadelphia's Assembly Hall, Philadelphia, PA, USA. Lecture.

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Mott, Lucretia. "Lucretia Mott: Why Should Not Woman Seek to Be a Reformer?" Great Speeches by American Women, edited by James Daley. Dover Publications, 2007.

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How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is clearly Ocean.

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Clarke, Arthur C. Quoted in "Hands Up for the Gaia Hypothesis." Written by James E. Lovelock. Nature Journal, 8 Mar. 1990.

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I think all business practices would improve immeasurably if they were guided by "feminine" principles-qualities like love and care and intuition.

Anita Roddick

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Roddick, Anita. Body and Soul: Profits with Principles, the Amazing Success Story of Anita Roddick & the Body Shop. Crown, 1991, ch. 1.

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Bring me the sunflower, crazed with the love of light.

Eugenio Montale

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Montale, Eugenio. "Portami il girasole [Bring me the sunflower]." Ossi di seppia [Cuttlefish Bones]. c. 1925.

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Montale, Eugenio. "Bring me the sunflower." Montale: Poems, translated by Jonathan Galassi. Everyman's Library, 2020.

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The whole effect of Christianity was to transfer the drama onto the moral plane.

Andre Gide

The Counterfeiters

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Gide, Andre. Les Faux-monnayeurs [The Counterfeiters]. Nouvelle Revue Francaise, 1925, pt. 1, ch. 13.

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Gide, Andre. The Counterfeiters, translated by Dorothy Bussy. Penguin Books, 1990, pt. 1, ch. 13.

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I think it's an essential fact for any performer or artist to fail as poignantly as they can succeed.

Nick Cave

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Cave, Nick. Quoted in Bad Seed: The Biography of Nick Cave, written by Ian Johnstone. Little, Brown and Company, 1996.

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To be heir to the throne is not a position; it is a predicament.

Alan Bennett

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Bennett, Alan. The Madness of George III. 28 Nov. 1991, Lyttelton Theatre of the National Theatre, London, England, UK, pt. 2.

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I obey Nature, and never do I dare give orders to it. My only ambition is servile fidelity to it.

Auguste Rodin

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Rodin, Auguste. Interviewed by Paul Gsell. La Revenue, 1910.

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Rodin, Auguste. Quoted in Art: Conversations with Paul Gsell, written by Paul Gsell. University of California Press, 1984.

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The costume of woman... Should conduce at once to her health, comfort, and usefulness... While it should not fail also to conduce to her personal adornment, it should make that end of secondary importance.

Amelia Jenks Bloomer

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Bloomer, Amelia Jenks. Letter to Charlotte Joy. 3 June 1857.

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Bloomer, Amelia Jenks. Quoted in Life and Writings of Amelia Bloomer, written by Dexter C. Bloomer. Scholarly Press, 1975.

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Do justice, that you may live long upon earth. Calm the weeper, do not oppress the widow, do not oust a man from his father's property, do not degrade magnates from their seats. Beware of punishing wrongfully; do not kill, for it will not profit you.

The Teaching for Merikare

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Herakleopolitan FIP King, Kheti III (Wahkare Akhtoy III); attributed. The Instruction of Merikare. The Leningrad Papyrus, 1116A, n.d.

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Herakleopolitan FIP King, Kheti III (Wahkare Akhtoy III); attributed. "The Instruction of Merikare." Ancient Egyptian Literature, translated by Miriam Lichtheim. University of California Press, 2019, parable 8.

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Things get passed around so easily on the internet. And fact becomes fiction and fiction becomes fact, without anyone stepping in to arbitrate and say, what are your sources?

Hilary Mantel

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Mantel, Hilary. Quoted in "The Art of Fiction No. 226." Interviewed by Mona Simpson. Paris Review, no. 212, Spring 2015, www.theparisreview.org/interviews/6360/art-of-fiction-no-226-hilary-mantel.

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Mother Nature always bats last and she always bats 1000.

Rob Watson

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Quoted in The New York Times

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Watson, Rob. Quoted in "We're Gonna Be Sorry." Written by Thomas L. Friedman. The New York Times, 24 July 2010.

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The symphony must be like the world; it must embrace everything.

Gustav Mahler

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Mahler, Gustav. Quoted in Jean Sibelius: His Life and Personality, written by Karl Ekman. Alan Wilmer, 1936.

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It was at Rome, on the 15th of October 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the bare-footed fryars were singing vespers in the temple of Jupiter, that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind.

Edward Gibbon

Read Memoirs of My Life and Writings at Project Gutenberg

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Gibbon, Edward. "Memoirs of My Life and Writings." Miscellaneous Works of Edward Gibbon, edited by John Sheffield. Vol. 1, London: A Strahan and T. Cadell Jun. and W. David, 1796.

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Gibbon, Edward. Memoirs of My Life, edited by Betty Radice. Penguin, 1984.

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It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives its most distinctive characteristic.

James Weldon Johnson

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Johnson, James Weldon. Black Manhattan. Alfred A. Knopf, 1930, ch. 11.

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It's more important to click with people than to click the shutter.

Alfred Eisenstaedt

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Quoted in Life Magazine

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Eisenstaedt, Alfred. "Obituary." Life Magazine, 24 Aug. 1995.

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Maximilien Robespierre was nothing but the hand of Jean Jacques Rousseau, the bloody hand that drew from the womb of time the body whose soul Rousseau had created.

Heinrich Heine

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Heine, Heinrich. "De l'Allemagne depuis Luther [Germany after Luther]." Revue des deux Mondes, Dec. 1834.

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Heine, Heinrich. "On the History of Religion and Philosophy in Germany." On the History of Religion and Philosophy in Germany and Other Writings, translated by Howard Pollack-Milgate, edited by Terry Pinkard. Cambridge University Press, 2007.

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When artists create pictures and thinkers search for laws and formulate thoughts, it is in order to salvage something from the great dance of death, to make something that lasts longer than we do.

Hermann Hesse

Narcissus and Goldmund

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Hesse, Herman. Narziß und Goldmund [Narcissus and Goldmund]. Fischer Verlag, 1930.

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Hesse, Herman. Narcissus and Goldmund, translated by Ursule Molinaro. Bantam, 1984.

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