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Quote from Alda Merini. Nobody gives me a better hairdo than the wind.
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Quote from Fiodor Dostoïevski. The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.
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Quote from Ésope. No need to run, rather to set off in good time.
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Quote from Johann Georg Hamann. When I rest my feet my mind also ceases to function.
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Quote from Stanislaw Jerzy Lec. When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet.
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Quote from Stanislaw Jerzy Lec. To be ourselves we need to be someone.
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Quote from Norman Douglas. To find a friend one must close one eye - to keep him, two.
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Quote from Stanislaw Jerzy Lec. Who knows what Columbus would have discovered if America hadn't got in the way.
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Quote from Karl Marx. The worker becomes a cheaper kind of merchandise with the more goods he produces.
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Quote from Arthur Schopenhauer. Anyone who has never owned a dog can't know what loving and being loved mean.
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Quote from Francesco Tavano. Since it's publicly known that cigarettes are dangerous, why are they sold?
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Quote from Eduardo Galeano. Crimes committed with automobiles are called accidents.
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Quote from Pablo Picasso. One starts to get young at the age of sixty, and unfortunately it's too late.
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Quote from Aristotle. That which is difficult to obtain is highly valued.
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Quote from Alain Rey. We believe that we master words, but it is words that master us.
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Quote from Alexander Smith. A man doesn't plant a tree for himself. He plants it for posterity.
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Quote from Fiodor Dostoïevski. A man is unhappy because he doesn't know he's happy, that's the only reason. That's all, that's all! Whoever discovers this will become happy instantly.
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Quote from Martin Luther King. We must pursue peaceful ends through peaceful means.
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Quote from Albert Einstein. Everybody knows a certain thing is unrealizable until somebody unaware of this comes and invents it.
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Quote from Italo Calvino. You love a city not for its seven or seventy-seven wonders, but because it has an answer to your special question.
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Quote from Alberto Moravia. Friendships are not decided on by chance but according to our dominant passions.
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Quote from Albert Einstein. The point is not to humanize war but to abolish it.
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Quote from Gilbert Keith Chesterton. You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution.
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Quote from Martin Luther King. Only when it is dark enough, can you see the stars.
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Quote from Ethel Barrymore. You grow up the day you have your first real laugh at yourself.
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Quote from Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. To make a gift of culture is to make a gift of thirst. The rest is a consequence.
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Quote from Ronald Reagan. They have developed treatments for unknown illnesses.
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Quote from Albert Einstein. Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.
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Quote from Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. Man looks in too many places for what he is in search of, whereas only one would suffice.
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Quote from Dieter Hildebrandt. We believe only in what we see, so since the advent of television we believe in everything.
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Quote from Carl Burns. A child on a farm sees a plane fly overhead and dreams of a faraway place. A traveler on the plane sees the farmhouse and dreams of home.
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Quote from Marguerite Duras. Solitude isn't found, it's made.
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Quote from Alex Zanotelli. You vote every time you go shopping.
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Quote from Will Rogers. You can't say that civilization don't advance, however, for in every war they kill you in a new way.
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Quote from Anatole France. A dictionary is the whole universe arranged in alphabetical order.
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Quote from Cesare Pavese. We do not remember days, we remember moments.
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Quote from Eduardo Chillida. My concern is not to know whether I am great or not, rather whether I am developing as a person with every day that passes.
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Quote from Victor Hugo. It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live.
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Quote from William Arthur Ward. The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
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Quote from Stanislaw Jerzy Lec. Don't shout for help at night. You may wake your neighbors.
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Quote from Ludwig Feuerbach. We are what we eat.
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Quote from Salvatore Quasimodo. Every individual stands alone at the heart of the world transfixed by a ray of sunlight; and suddenly it is evening.
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Quote from Friedrich Nietzsche. Don't trust an idea that has not come to mind while walking.
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Quote from Oscar Wilde. The great events of the world take place in the brain.
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Quote from John Culkin. We don't know who discovered water, but we're certain it wasn't a fish.
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Quote from Albert Einstein. You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother.
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Quote from Ernest Hemingway. Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.
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Quote from J.W. Eagan. Never judge a book by its movie.
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Quote from Blaise Pascal. Our nature consists in motion; complete rest is death.
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Quote from Margaret Mead. Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world.
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Quote from Martin Luther King. Our lives end the day we become silent about things that really matter.
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Quote from Isaac Asimov. Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.
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Quote from Camille Corot. The whole thing is to have genius at twenty and talent at eighty.
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Quote from Octavio Paz. Water talks unceasingly but never repeats itself.
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Quote from Oscar Wilde. I have simple tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.
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Quote from Ernest Hemingway. It takes two years to learn to speak and sixty to learn to keep quiet.
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Quote from Dominique Rolin. What's a year otherwise the infinite volume of a pinch of seconds?
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Quote from Daniel De Montmollin. The primary objective for an educator is to produce autodidacts.
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Quote from Ennio Flaiano. My cat does what I would like to do, with less literature.
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Quote from Alfred Capus. Some men talk while they sleep. There are only speakers to speak during the sleep of others.

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