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- The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.
- Stephen Hawking (1942 - )
- When I despair, I remember that all through history the ways of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants, and murderers, and for a time they can seem invincible, but in the end they always fall. Think of it--always.
- Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948)
- I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter, the sound of which has always seemed to me to be the most civilized music in the world.
- Peter Ustinov (1921 - 2004)
- Did you know that every two hours the nations of this world spend as much on armaments as they spend on the children of this world every year?
- Peter Ustinov (1921 - 2004)
- Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
- Peter Ustinov (1921 - 2004)
- Beliefs are what divide people. Doubt unites them.
- Peter Ustinov (1921 - 2004)
- By increasing the size of the keyhole, today's playwrights are in danger of doing away with the door.
- Peter Ustinov (1921 - 2004)
- The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself, but in so doing, he identifies himself with people--that is, people everywhere, not for the purpose of taking them apart, but simply revealing their true nature.
- James Thurber (1894 - 1961)
- Nothing in all the world is so nonsensical and contradictory, save mortals, that is, who live in the grip of the superstitions of the past.
- Anne Rice (1941 - ), The Vampire Lestat
- Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
- Mother Teresa (1910 - 1997)
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