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  • Alain de Botton It is perhaps when our lives are at their most problematic that we are likely to be most receptive to beautiful things.
    The Architecture of Happiness
    Alain de Botton
    Swiss-born British author (1969 - )
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  • Lady Mary Wortley Montagu It is the common error of builders and parents to follow some plan they think beautiful (and perhaps is so) without considering that nothing is beautiful that is misplaced.
    Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
    English writer (1689 - 1762)
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  • Bill Owens It is the solemn obligation of a leader always to be a leader. Even when - perhaps especially when - you don't feel like being a leader.
    Bill Owens
    American photographer (1938 - )
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  • Angela Carter It is, perhaps, better to be valued as an object of passion than never to be valued at all.
    Angela Carter
    British author (1940 - 1992)
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  • Barbara Ehrenreich It was a real surprise to me to come across the evidence that Christianity might once have been a danced religion. Certainly, some of the early church leaders thought this was great and spoke of what seems to have been circle dancing, perhaps around an altar.
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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  • Alfred Einstein It was inevitable that in doing this I should arrive at new results, and it is perhaps understandable that in the end I have felt impelled to present these results not only in the dry form of a catalogue, but also in a more connected and personal one.
    Mozart, His Character, His Work (1962)
    Alfred Einstein
    German-American musicologist (1880 - 1952)
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  • A. E. van Vogt It's difficult for me to feel that a solid page without the breakups of paragraphs can be interesting. I break mine up perhaps sooner than I should in terms of the usage of the English language.
    A. E. van Vogt
    Canadian-born science fiction author (1912 - 2000)
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  • Joseph Conrad It's extraordinary how we go through life with eyes half shut, with dull ears, with dormant thoughts. Perhaps it's just as well; and it may be that it is this very dullness that makes life to the incalculable majority so supportable and so welcome.
    Joseph Conrad
    In Poland born English writer (1857 - 1924)
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  • Bill Gross It's going to be difficult to stimulate the real economy in the U.S. at a faster rate than 2 percent and perhaps even less if we have that fiscal cliff in December or January 2013.
    Bill Gross
    American investor, fund manager, and philanthropist (1944 - )
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  • Abbie Hoffman It's perhaps fitting that I write this introduction in jail.
    Steal This Book (1971) Introduction
    Abbie Hoffman
    American political and social activist (1936 - 1989)
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  • Samuel Beckett Just under the surface I shall be, all together at first, then separate and drift, through all the earth and perhaps in the end through a cliff into the sea, something of me. A ton of worms in an acre, that is a wonderful thought, a ton of worms, I believe it.
    Samuel Beckett
    Irish dramatist and novelist (1906 - 1989)
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  • Anne Sullivan Keep on beginning and failing. Each time you fail, start all over again, and you will grow stronger until you have accomplished a purpose - not the one you began with perhaps, but one you'll be glad to remember.
    Anne Sullivan
    American teacher (1866 - 1936)
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  • Ben Stein Keep on beginning and failing. Each time you fail, start all over gain, and you will grow stronger until have accomplished a purpose - not the one you began with perhaps, but one you'll be glad to remember.
    Ben Stein
    American professor, writer
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  • Charles F. Kettering Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.
    Charles F. Kettering
    American inventor (1876 - 1958)
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  • Albert Einstein Keep on sowing your seed, for you never know which will grow - perhaps it all will.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Bhagat Singh Let me announce, with all the strength at my command, that I am not a terrorist and I never was, expect perhaps in the beginning of my revolutionary career. And I am convinced that we cannot gain anything through those methods.
    Bhagat Singh
    Indian socialist revolutionary (1907 - 1931)
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  • Plato Let us describe the education of our men. What then is the education to be? Perhaps we could hardly find a better than that which the experience of the past has already discovered, which consists, I believe, in gymnastic, for the body, and music for the mind.
    Plato
    Greek philosopher (427 - 347)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Let us treat the men and women well: treat them as if they were real: perhaps they are.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Marcel Proust Lies are essential to humanity. They are perhaps as important as the pursuit of pleasure and moreover are dictated by that pursuit.
    Marcel Proust
    French writer and critic (1871 - 1922)
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  • Rainer Maria Rilke Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers.
    Rainer Maria Rilke
    German poet (1875 - 1926)
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