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  • Thorstein Veblen It is always sound business to take any obtainable net gain, at any cost and at any risk to the rest of the community.
    Thorstein Veblen
    Norwegian-American economist and sociologist (1857 - 1929)
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  • Robert Southey It is not for man to rest in absolute contentment. He is born to hopes and aspirations as the sparks fly upward, unless he has brutalized his nature and quenched the spirit of immortality which is his portion.
    Robert Southey
    British writer (1774 - 1843)
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  • Aristotle It is the mark of an instructed mind to rest satisfied with the degree of precision which the nature of the subject admits and not to seek exactness when only an approximation of the truth is possible.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • James Russell Lowell It is the privilege of genius that life never grows common place, as it does for the rest of us.
    James Russell Lowell
    American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat (1819 - 1891)
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  • Camilla Belle It was a huge shock. I've never had hair that short in my life! I think the rest of the cast and crew were mourning my haircut more than I was! But after a while, I felt liberated, I learned to embrace it.
    Camilla Belle
    Brazilian-American actress, director and producer (1986 - )
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  • Barry McGuire It was really fun. Well, Bobby was just basically a folk singer. He didn't play with any bands or anything, like all the rest of us. Just played his guitar and sang his songs.
    Barry McGuire
    American singer-songwriter (1935 - )
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  • Jane Austen It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are the rest of the nation.
    Jane Austen
    English writer (1775 - 1817)
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  • Augustus William Hare Jealousy is said to be the offspring of Love. Yet, unless the parent makes haste to strangle the child, the child will not rest till it has poisoned the parent.
    Augustus William Hare
    British writer (1792 - 1834)
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  • Desiderius Erasmus Jupiter, not wanting man's life to be wholly gloomy and grim, has bestowed far more passion than reason - you could reckon the ration as twenty-four to one. Moreover, he confined reason to a cramped corner of the head and left all the rest of the body to the passions.
    Desiderius Erasmus
    Dutch humanist and philosopher (1469 - 1536)
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  • Benny Green Just to have that sense of family, it gives you something that you know you need to take care of for the rest of your life. People gave it to him, and he passed it on to us.
    Benny Green
    American musician
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  • Boris Johnson Labour's appalling agenda, encouraging the teaching of homosexuality in schools, and all the rest of it.
    Source: The Spectator 15 April 2000
    Boris Johnson
    British politician and author (1964 - )
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  • John Donne Let me arrest thy thoughts; wonder with me, why plowing, building, ruling and the rest, or most of those arts, whence our lives are blest, by cursed Cain's race invented be, and blest Seth vexed us with Astronomy.
    John Donne
    English poet (1572 - 1631)
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  • Mark Twain Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Mother Teresa Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God - the rest will be given.
    Mother Teresa
    Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic nun and missionary (1910 - 1997)
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  • George Washington Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair; the rest is in the hands of God.
    George Washington
    First president of the US (1732 - 1799)
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  • Charles Churchill Little do such men know the toil, the pains, the daily, nightly racking of the brains, to range the thoughts, the matter to digest, to cull fit phrases, and reject the rest.
    Charles Churchill
    British poet (1731 - 1764)
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  • Adam Smith Little else is requisite to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism but peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice: all the rest being brought about by the natural course of things.
    Adam Smith
    Scottish Economist (1723 - 1790)
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  • George Burns Look to the future, because that is where you'll spend the rest of your life.
    George Burns
    American Comedy Actor (1896 - 1996)
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  • Epictetus Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.
    Epictetus
    Roman philosopher (50 - 130)
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  • Federico Fellini Making movies is my vacation. All the rest - the traveling about to premiers, the social life, the endless arguments with producers who don't understand me - that is the work.
    Federico Fellini
    Italian film director (1920 - 1993)
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