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Virtue comes through contemplation of the divine, and the exercise of philosophy. But it also comes through public service. The one is incomplete without the other. Power without wisdom is tyranny; wisdom without power is pointless. ↗

— Iain Pears

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If I planned everything out in advance, I'd expire of boredom. ↗

— Peter Straub

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I cannot know anything of which there is and can be only one. ↗

— Leo Strauss

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I am in the present. I cannot know what tomorrow will bring forth. I can know only what the truth is for me today. That is what I am called upon to serve, and I serve it in all lucidity. ↗

— Igor Stravinsky

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Money may kindle, but it cannot by itself, and for very long, burn. ↗

— Igor Stravinsky

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Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married? ↗

— Barbra Streisand

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The audience is the best judge of anything. They cannot be lied to. Truth brings them closer. A moment that lags - they're gonna cough. ↗

— Barbra Streisand

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Happiness consumes itself like a flame. It cannot burn for ever, it must go out, and the presentiment of its end destroys it at its very peak. ↗

— August Strindberg

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I was with Ted Turner when he came to see Kofi Annan - the Secretary-General of the UN - to announce his decision to put $1 billion to the service of UN projects and programs. ↗

— Maurice Strong

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There are a lot of people who write very intensely about things they do not and cannot do. ↗

— Theodore Sturgeon

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