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Our deeds are like children that are born to us; they live and act apart from our own will. Nay, children may be strangled, but deeds never: they have an indestructible life both in and out of our consciousness.: George Eliot (1819 - 1880), Romola, 1863
We live in a time when the words impossible and unsolvable are no longer part of the scientific community's vocabulary. Each day we move closer to trials that will not just minimize the symptoms of disease and injury but eliminate them.: Christopher Reeve, Testimony to US House of Representative, 1999
Of course, our failures are a consequence of many factors, but possibly one of the most important is the fact that society operates on the theory that specialization is the key to success, not realizing that specialization precludes comprehensive thinking.: R. Buckminster Fuller (1895 - 1983), Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth, 1963
Now there is one outstandingly important fact regarding Spaceship Earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it.: R. Buckminster Fuller (1895 - 1983), Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth, 1963
There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.: George Eliot (1819 - 1880), The Mill on the Floss, 1860
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Pathos, piety, courage, — they exist, but are identical, and so is filth. Everything exists, nothing has value.: E. M. Forster (1879 - 1970), A Passage to India, 1924
If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.: E. M. Forster (1879 - 1970), Two Cheers for Democracy, 1951
The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong in the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.: Ernest Hemingway (1899 - 1961), A Farewell to Arms, 1929
The goal of all life is death.: Sigmund Freud (1856 - 1939)
American foreign policy must be more than the management of crisis. It must have a great and guiding goal: to turn this time of American influence into generations of democratic peace.: George W. Bush (1946 - ), speech, November 19, 1999

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