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Roland Barthes
Literary theorist and philosopher
· France
In the quest for fortune and fame…don’t forget about the simple things.
India.Arie
Singer-songwriter
War is a generality, so are the inevitabilities of war, including death.
Marguerite Duras
Writer
· Vietnam
Truth is beautiful and divine no matter how humble its origin.
Mihajlo Idvorski Pupin
Nothing human is finally calculable; even to ourselves we are strange.
Gore Vidal
Writer
· USA
It is easier to do a job right than to explain why you didn’t.
Martin Van Buren
Lawyer
· USA
Wherever the real power in a Government lies, there is the danger of oppression.
James Madison
Politician
· USA
Faith will tell us Christ is present, When our human senses fail.
Thomas Aquinas
Philosopher and Theologian
· Italy
What are ye orbs? The words of God? the Scriptures of the skies?
Philip James Bailey
Poet
· England
When our time’s up, it’s up. All the money in the world won’t buy you one more day.
Ted Turner
Media mogul
· USA
It’s so easy to be wicked without knowing it, isn’t it?
Lucy Maud Montgomery
Author
· Canada
It’s ultimately the purpose of education to cultivate the love of learning for its own sake.
Michael Sandel
Philosopher
Ah, but if you have no expectations, You can never have a disappointment.
Stephen Sondheim
Composer
I have always believed that what goes around comes around.
Rajeev Shukla
Politician
· India
I had stories that needed more space than the hour and a half or two hours a movie gives you.
Manuel Puig
Writer
· Argentina
I want you to see that I’m looking. Look at me look at you. I’m cool with that.
Busta Rhymes
Rapper
· USA
I really believe there’s more honesty in one live show than there may be in my whole output.
Andrew Bird
Musician
· USA