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Quotations from Famous People - 111
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Boutros Boutros-Ghali
A new vision of development is emerging. Development is becoming a people-centered process, whose ultimate goal must be the improvement of the human condition.
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Charles Baudelaire
It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree.
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George Moore
Remorse: beholding heaven and feeling hell.
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Ludwig van Beethoven
Music is a higher revelation than philosophy.
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Robert Green Ingersoll
Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity.
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Herman Melville, Moby Dick
Men may seem detestable as joint stock-companies and nations; knaves, fools, and murderers there may be; men may have mean and meagre faces; but man, in the ideal, is so noble and so sparkling, such a grand and glowing creature, that over any ignominious blemish in him all his fellows should run to throw their costliest robes.
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Bette Davis
From the age of six, I have known that I was sexy. And let me tell you it has been hell, sheer hell, waiting to do something about it.
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Dorothee Deluzy
Perseverance and audacity generally win.
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Ellen Glasglow
The only difference between a rut and a grave... is in their dimensions.
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Jean Rostand, Thoughts of a biologist (1939)
To be an adult is to be alone.
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Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
Ambition is like a frog sitting on a Venus's-flytrap. The flytrap can bite and bite, but it won't bother the frog because it only has little tiny plant teeth. But some other stuff could happen and it could be like ambition.
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Ayn Rand
The evil of the world is made possible by nothing but the sanction you give it.
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