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Quotations from Famous People - 109
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Susan Partnow
It is within the families themselves where peace can begin.
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Lakota belief
Mi taku oyasin. (We are all related.)
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E. B. White
Somehow not only for ChristmasBut all the long year through,The joy that you give to othersIs the joy that comes back to you.
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Allan Williams
Character is who you are when no one is looking.
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Ivan Illich
At the moment of death I hope to be surprised.
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Allard Lowenstein
The question should be, is it worth trying to do, not can it be done.
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Brian Aldiss
Civilization is the distance man has placed between himself and his excreta.
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Denis Diderot
There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.
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John Kenneth Galbraith, The Affluent Society (1958)
People are the common denominator of progress. So... no improvement is possible with unimproved people, and advance is certain when people are liberated and educated. It would be wrong to dismiss the importance of roads, railroads, power plants, mills, and the other familiar furniture of economic development.... But we are coming to realize... that there is a certain sterility in economic monuments that stand alone in a sea of illiteracy. Conquest of illiteracy comes first.
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Madeleine Albright
I don't want to sound Pollyannaish, but I hope that out of a tragedy like this something good will come. I hope we understand we're one family.
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Huey Long
When Fascism comes to America, it will come wrapped in an American flag.
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Louis Blanc, The Organization of Work, 1840
From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.
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