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• I've spent my whole life worrying about the human-computer interface, so I don't want to suggest that what we have today is even close to acceptable.

  Nicholas Negroponte

  Worry, Want, Today

  "Being Nicholas". Interview with Thomas A. Bass, www.wired.com. November 1, 1995.

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• No man is the whole of himself; his friends are the rest of him.

  Harry Emerson Fosdick

  Friendship, Apology, Men

  Harry Emerson Fosdick (2007). “The Meaning of Prayer”, p.174, Cosimo, Inc.

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• On the whole, we treat the Devil shamefully, and the worse we treat Him the more He laughs at us.

  Robertson Davies

  Laughing, Devil, Satanic

  Robertson Davies (1996). “Fifth business”, Penguin, 1996

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• The beautiful feeling after writing a poem is on the whole better even than after sex, and that's saying a lot.

  Anne Sexton

  Beautiful, Sex, Writing

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• The whole sex symbol or babe thing doesn't bother me.

  Jeri Ryan

  Sex, Babe, Bother

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• We don't ask any people to throw away any good they have got; we only ask them to come and get more. What if all the world should embrace this Gospel? They would then see eye to eye, and the blessings of God would be poured out upon the people, which is the desire of my whole soul.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  God, Faith, Christian

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• It is the whole business of the whole church to preach the whole gospel to the whole world.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Church, Missionary, World

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• We must practice modesty, not only in our looks, but also in our whole deportment, and particularly in our dress, our walk, our conversation, and all similar actions.

  Alphonsus Liguori

  Practice, Catholic, Dresses

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• Vegetarian food leaves a deep impression on our nature. If the whole world adopts vegetarianism, it can change the destiny of humankind.

  Albert Einstein

  Destiny, Vegetarianism, World

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• Freedom lies outside the pattern of society; but to be free of that pattern you have to understand the whole content of it, which is to understand your own mind.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Spiritual, Lying, Mind

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (1992). “Individual & Society: A Study Book of the Teachings of J. Krishnamurti”, p.88, Krishnamurti Foundation of America

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• Through self-knowledge you begin to find out what is God, what is truth, what is that state which is timeless. In self-knowledge is the whole universe; it embraces all the struggles of humanity.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Spiritual, Struggle, Self

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (1992). “Individual & Society: A Study Book of the Teachings of J. Krishnamurti”, p.87, Krishnamurti Foundation of America

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• Mind you, I have had in my sojourn on earth as good a time of it as any man, so I can speak with some knowledge. A writer in the Manchester Guardian who is unknown to me lately described me as "the richest man in the world." That sounds a pretty big order, but when I come to think it out I believe he is not far wrong. A rich man is not necessarily a man with a whole pot of money but a man who is really happy. And I am that.

  Robert Baden-Powell

  Time, Believe, Men

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• So I asked him to play "Trav'lin' All Alone." That came closer than anything to the way I felt. And some part of it must have come across. The whole joint quieted down. If someone had dropped a pin, it would have sounded like a bomb. When I finished, everybody in the joint was crying in their beer, and I picked thirty-eight bucks up off the floor. . . . When I showed Mom the money for the rent and told her I had a regular job singing for eighteen dollars a week, she could hardly believe it.

  Billie Holiday

  Mom, Jobs, Believe

  Billie Holiday, William Dufty (2011). “Lady Sings the Blues: The 50th-Anniversay Edition with a Revised Discography”, p.45, Broadway Books

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• If fans are going to turn on me because of this, they weren't my fans anyway. I couldn't betray a whole 25 years of record making and not do this. I had to.

  John Mellencamp

  Betrayal, Years, Fans

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• Like, when we did Parliament and Funkadelic and Bootsy, it was actually one thing. But there were so many people that you could split them up into different groups. And then, when we went out on tour and they [the record companies] would see us all up there together - we had five, six guitars playing at one time, not including the bass! -, they said: "Wait a minute, that's just one whole group, selling different names!" But it wasn't - we had enough people in the group that each member would have a section to be another group. So now we're finally starting to get them to understand that.

  Gary Snyder

  Guitar, Names, People

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• It is better to be part of a great whole than to be the whole of a small part.

  Frederick Douglass

  Collaboration, Philanthropy, Small Parts

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• We may conclude, therefore, that, in order to establish laws for the regulation of property, we must be acquainted with the nature and situation of man; must reject appearances, which may be false, though specious; and must search for those rules, which are, on the whole, most useful and beneficial.

  David Hume

  Men, Order, Law

  David Hume, J. B. Schneewind (1983). “An Enquiry Concerning The Principles of Morals”, p.28, Hackett Publishing

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• In its pursuit of justice for a segment of society, in disregard of the consequences for society as a whole, what is called 'social justice' might more accurately be called anti-social justice, since what consistently gets ignored or dismissed are precisely the costs to society. Such a conception of justice seeks to correct, not only biased or discriminatory acts by individuals or by social institutions, but unmerited disadvantages in general, from whatever source they may arise.

  Thomas Sowell

  Justice, Cost, May

  Thomas Sowell (2001). “The Quest for Cosmic Justice”, p.10, Simon and Schuster

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• I know how bad a thing it is to be a slave and I know how terrible it was but I don't believe that there's a free person in the whole world that knows how good a cup full of water can taste. Because you have to be a deprived slave, to be kept waiting for your water like we were to really appreciate how good just one swallow can be. When we finally got a drop on our tongues it was like something straight from the hands of the Almighty.

  Walter Mosley

  Appreciation, Believe, Hands

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• A gulf profound as that Serbonian bog Betwixt Damiata and Mount Casius old, Where armies whole have sunk: the parching air Burns frore, and cold performs th' effect of fire. Thither by harpy-footed Furies hal'd, At certain revolutions all the damn'd Are brought, and feel by turns the bitter change Of fierce extremes,-extremes by change more fierce; From beds of raging fire to starve in ice Their soft ethereal warmth, and there to pine Immovable, infix'd, and frozen round, Periods of time; thence hurried back to fire.

  John Milton

  Time, Army, Ice

  John Milton, “Paradise Lost: Book 02”

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• Real success is making art your whole life.

  Kay WalkingStick

  Success, Art, Real

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• The scourge of drug trafficking, that favors violence and sows the seeds of suffering and death, requires of society as a whole an act of courage.

  Pope Francis

  Marijuana, Suffering And Death, Drug

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• If honesty were suddenly introduced into American life, the whole system would collapse.

  George Carlin

  Honesty, Philosophy, Collapse

  "George Carlin: You Are All Diseased". TV Special, www.imdb.com. 1999.

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• Here, you can walk into a bookstore and pick up a Bible or Christian literature and learn. Over there, they are lucky if they have one Bible for a whole village.

  Michael Scott

  Christian, Over You, Village

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• The essential religion is taking the whole responsibility for whatsoever you are. And immediately an insight arises: 'If I am responsible for my suffering, then it is simple, I can drop it. It is my choice. I will not choose it any more.'

  Rajneesh

  Happiness, Responsibility, Simple

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