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“Culture is like the sum of special knowledge that accumulates in any large united family and is the common property of all its members. When we of the great Culture Family meet, we exchange reminiscences about Grandfather Homer, and that awful old Dr. Johnson, and Aunt Sappho, and poor Johnny Keats.”
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“The most powerful force ever known on this planet is human cooperation - a force for construction and destruction.”
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“Our greatest good, and what we least can spare, Is hope: the last of all our evils, fear.”
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“What is public opinion? It is private indolence.”
Source : Georg Brandes (2015). “Friedrich Nietzsche (English Edition)”, p.5, WILLIAM HEINEMANN
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“The fashionable Canadian drug habit, instead of cocaine, is to sniff real snow.”
Source : Eric Nicol, Dave More (1986). “The U.S. Or Us: What's the Difference, Eh?”
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“Most performers reinvent themselves. Madonna, Michael Jackson, P. Diddy. They reinvent themselves into different kinds of images. Elvis [Presley] was always himself, an original, and he never tried to be anything but that.”
Source : "The Enduring Legacy of Elvis Presley". "The O'Reilly Factor" with Bill O'Reilly, www.foxnews.com. May 6, 2005.
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“Avoid trouble with those who are fanatics; they remain imprisoned in exclusivism and deserve compassion just as any other prisoner.”
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“The quality of health care continues to improve, and people are living longer, but these developments mean that we're likely to eventually find ourselves in a situation in which we're forced to make difficult choices about our parents, other loved ones, or even ourselves that ultimately boil down to calculations of worth and value.”