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Alfred North Whitehead Philosopher, Mathematician
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"Style, in its finest sense, is the last acquirement of the educated mind; it is also the most useful. It pervades the whole being."

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Victor Hugo Novelist, Poet
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"I'd like a drink. I desire to forget life. Life is a hideous invention by somebody I don't know. It doesn't last, and it's good for nothing. You break your neck simply living."

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Samuel Johnson Lexicographer, Essayist, Critic
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"To get a name can happen but to few. A name, even in the most commercial nation, is one of the few things which cannot be bought . It is the free gift of mankind, which must be deserved before it will be granted, and is at last unwillingly bestowed."

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Thomas Merton Writer, Monk
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"The most awful tyranny is that of the proximate Utopia where the last sins are currently being eliminated and where, tomorrow, there will be no more sins because all the sinners will have been wiped out."

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Russell Sherman Author, Poet
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"The music of the supreme architect, Bach, is filled with pages of discursive argument and rumination, glorifying the nameless whole by a rich embroidery of passages which lead everywhere and nowhere. The ideas are presented, stood on their head, dissolved into fragments, until the ultimate message becomes the connections of all things great and small, a chain of being which cannot be secured until the last note is in place."

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Hans Frank Politician, Lawyer
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"Death by hanging... I deserved it and I expected it, as I've always told you. I am glad that I have had the chance to defend myself and to think things over in the last few months."

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