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We really teach ourselves. If you want to learn, you will always find someone to learn from, be they dead or alive, great or unknown. You learn from everything you see and hear around you - if you are willing to pay attention. ↗

— Alexander Volkov

#always #around #attention #dead #everything

God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best. ↗

— Voltaire

#best #big #god #shoot #side

The key to tackling Islamist fundamentalism and terrorism from the Islamist community is in the hands of moderate Muslims. ↗

— Gijs de Vries

#fundamentalism #hands #key #moderate #muslims

The satirist shoots to kill while the humorist brings his prey back alive and eventually releases him again for another chance. ↗

— Peter De Vries

#again #alive #another #back #brings

Many people consider the things government does for them to be social progress but they regard the things government does for others as socialism. ↗

— Earl Warren

#does #government #many #others #people

I am a private person and that has always been my personality. ↗

— Grete Waitz

#am #been #i #i am #person

As I said earlier, there are no writers who could create a literary vision of the new reality. ↗

— Andrzej Wajda

#create #earlier #i #literary #new

In the forty years of the people's republic, some of the worst historical traits were preserved in our people. These included even the common characteristics developed in the economic reality of the time of partitions in the 17th and 18th centuries. ↗

— Andrzej Wajda

#characteristics #common #developed #economic #even

We've seen how grassroots journalism by blogs has had an impact at various points politically, as ordinary people have amplified stories that were being ignored by the traditional press. ↗

— Jimmy Wales

#being #being ignored #blogs #grassroots #had

Democracy is made up of three elements. One is whether the laws support pluralistic principles. The second is whether the people take advantage of these laws. The third element is whether the peoples' wallets are thick enough to benefit from this democracy. ↗

— Lech Walesa

#benefit #democracy #element #elements #enough