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		All of humanity is in peril of extinction if each one of us does not dare, now and henceforth, always to tell only the truth, and all the truth, and to do so promptly - right now.
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				R. Buckminster Fuller 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
	
	
	
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		Alas, nothing reveals man the way war does. Nothing so accentuates in him the beauty and ugliness, the intelligence and foolishness, the brutishness and humanity, the courage and cowardice, the enigma. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Oriana Fallaci 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Pablo Neruda 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		It's much easier for me to make major life, multi-million dollar decisions, than it is to decide on a carpet for my front porch. That's the truth. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Oprah Winfrey 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Humanity needs dreams to be able to survive the miseries of daily existence, even if only for an instant. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Oscar Niemeyer 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		With the monstrous weapons man already has, humanity is in danger of being trapped in this world by its moral adolescents. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Omar N. Bradley 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Because I spent many years during my previous life as an academic researching game theory, some commentators rushed to presume that as Greece's new finance minister, I was busily devising bluffs, stratagems and outside options, struggling to improve upon a weak hand. Nothing could be further from the truth. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Yanis Varoufakis 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
		
	
	
	
	
		Truly, love is delightful and pleasant food, supplying, as it does, rest to the weary, strength to the weak, and joy to the sorrowful. It in fact renders the yoke of truth easy and its burden light. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Saint Bernard 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		In truth, every creation of the mind is first of all 'poetic' in the proper sense of the word; and inasmuch as there exists an equivalence between the modes of sensibility and intellect, it is the same function that is exercised initially in the enterprises of the poet and the scientist. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Saint-John Perse 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		You don't have to be scared of me, because I am loyal. Why are people so scared of creative ideas and so scared of truth? All I want to do is do good. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Kanye West 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		The truth is, I've been going pretty much nuts all year. I constantly have to fight being scattered. I feel like I'm on automatic pilot from fatigue. The hardest thing is trying to be present, living for the moment, for everybody in the family. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Patricia Richardson 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		The truth is that I know very few novelists who have been satisfied with the adaptation of their books for the screen. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Gabriel Garcia Marquez 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I really don't know where my interest in death comes from. Maybe I've just got a twisted imagination. The truth is, I haven't had a hugely eventful life - maybe I'm compensating in my creative life. Or maybe I'm just a bit sick. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Laura Wade 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
	
	
	
	
		Once we realize we are all members of humanity, we will want to compete in the spirit of love. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Muhammad Ali 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		It was the hour of morning, when the sun mounts with those stars that shone with it when God's own love first set in motion those fair things. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Dante Alighieri 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		It sounded as if the streets were running,
And then the streets stood still. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Emily Dickinson 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		There is no means of avoiding the final collapse of a boom brought about by credit expansion. The alternative is only whether the crisis should come sooner as the result of voluntary abandonment of further credit expansion, or later as a final and total catastrophe of the currency system involved. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Ludwig von Mises 
			 
		 
	
	
	 
	
	
	
	
		In 1971, near the middle of Nixon's first term, he approved a plan to install a White House taping system as a way of preserving an accurate chronicle of important discussions and decisions. Except for Nixon, three aides, and the Secret Service, no one knew about the listening devices. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Douglas Brinkley 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		All of humanity is in peril of extinction if each one of us does not dare, now and henceforth, always to tell only the truth, and all the truth, and to do so promptly - right now. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				R. Buckminster Fuller