Quote by Thornton Wilder
Ninety-nine per cent of the people in the world are fools and the

Ninety-nine per cent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion. – Thornton Wilder

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Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday. – Thornton Wilder

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Providence has nothing good or high in store for one who does not resolutely aim at something high or good. A purpose is the eternal condition of success. – Thornton Wilder

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The great constitutional corrective in the hands of the people against usurpation of power, or corruption by their agents is the right of suffrage and this when used with calmness and deliberation will prove strong enough. – Andrew Jackson

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Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions reality can be attained only by someone who is detached. – Simone Weil

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Lets face it – think of Africa, and the first images that come to mind are of war, poverty, famine and flies. How many of us really know anything at all about the truly great ancient African civilizations, which in their day, were just as splendid and glorious as any on the face of the earth? – Henry Louis Gates

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A man must live like a great brilliant flame and burn as brightly as he can. In the end he burns out. But this is far better than a mean little flame. – Boris Yeltsin

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I hope for nothing. I fear nothing. I am free. – Nikos Kazantzakis

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I have a great relationship with animals, and with children. I get to their level. I try to see the way a child looks at the world, its hugely different. – Story Musgrave

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But some actors I have met possess an intelligence that I can only dream of. Its about character, its about behavior. They understand things about people that I simply dont see. – Ron Silver

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When you put down the good things you ought to have done, and leave out the bad ones you did do well, thats Memoirs. – Will Rogers

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