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Quote 1. - “Today, for a Jew who writes in the German language, it is totally impossible to make a living. In no group do I see as much misery, disappointment, desperation and hopelessness as in Jewish writers who write in German.” Stefan Zweig

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Quote 1. - “Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought - asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride, or design in their conversation.”William Butler Yeats

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Quote 1. - “The true test of a leader is whether his followers will adhere to his cause from their own volition, enduring the most arduous hardships without being forced to do so, and remaining steadfast in the moments of greatest peril.” Xenophon

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Quote 1. - “I who have cursed the drunken officer of British rule, how choose between this Africa and the english tongue I love? Betray them both, or give back what they give? How can I face such slaughter and be cool? How can I turn from Africa and live?” Derek Walcott

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Quote 1.- “Think of yourself as an incandescent power, illuminated and perhaps forever talked to by God and his messengers.” Brenda Ueland

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Quote 1.- “Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one) both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soulmate is the one you are actually married to.” J. R. R. Tolkien

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Quote 1.- “At present, intelligent people do not have their children vaccinated, nor does the law now compel them to. The result is not, as the Jennerians prophesied, the extermination of the human race by smallpox; on the contrary more people are now killed by vaccination than by smallpox.” George Bernard Shaw

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Quote 1.- “In the cookie of life, friends are chocolate chips.” Salman Rushdie

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Quote 1.- “In fact, this network, which we may identify as the Round Table Groups, has no aversion to cooperating with the Communists, or any other groups, and frequently does so.” Carroll Quigley

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Quote 1.- “Learn to be pleased with everything; with wealth, so far as it makes us beneficial to others; with poverty, for not having much to care for; and with obscurity, for being unenvied.” Plutarch

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