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  • John Stuart Mill The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good, in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it.
    John Stuart Mill
    English economist (1806 - 1873)
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  • Thomas Carlyle The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • George Bernard Shaw The only man I know who behaves sensibly is my tailor; he takes my measurements anew each time he sees me. The rest go on with their old measurements and expect me to fit them.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Adam Baldwin The only people who have control over their careers are the ones you see on the covers of magazines. Everyone else is just plodding along making a living. The key is not to live over your means and overdo it.
    Adam Baldwin
    American actor (1962 - )
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  • George Bernard Shaw The only person who acts sensibly is my tailor. He takes my measure anew every time he sees me. Everyone else goes by their old measurements.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Bill Parcells The only players I hurt with my words are the ones who have an inflated opinion of their ability. I can't worry about that.
    Bill Parcells
    American coach in the NFL (1941 - )
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  • Bob Hope The only thing chicken about Israel is their soup.
    Bob Hope
    American comedian, actor (1903 - 2003)
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  • Nancy Astor The only thing I like about rich people is their money.
    Nancy Astor
    First woman Member of Parliament (1879 - 1964)
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  • Thomas Moore The ordinary acts we practice every day at home are of more importance to the soul than their simplicity might suggest.
    Thomas Moore
    Irish poet (1779 - 1852)
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  • Bayard Taylor The original home of the Aryan race appears to have been somewhere among the mountains and lofty table-lands of Central Asia. The word 'Arya,' meaning the high or the excellent, indicates their superiority over the neighboring races long before the beginning of history.
    Bayard Taylor
    American poet, travel author, and diplomat (1825 - 1878)
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  • Marcel Proust The paradoxes of today are the prejudices of tomorrow, since the most benighted and the most deplorable prejudices have had their moment of novelty when fashion lent them its fragile grace.
    Marcel Proust
    French writer and critic (1871 - 1922)
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  • Albert Bushnell Hart The participation of the people in their own government was the more significant, because the colonies actually had what England only seemed to have, - three departments of government.
    Albert Bushnell Hart
    American historian, writer, and editor (1854 - 1943)
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  • Frederic Raphael The party of God and the party of Literature have more in common than either will admit; their texts may conflict, but their bigotries coincide. Both insist on being the sole custodians of the true word and its only interpreters.
    Frederic Raphael
    American screenwriter, biographer and writer (1931 - )
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  • Jean de la Bruyère The passion of hatred is so long lived and so obstinate a malady that the surest sign of death in a sick person is their desire for reconciliation.
    Jean de la Bruyère
    French writer (1645 - 1696)
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  • Christian Nevell Bovee The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.
    Christian Nevell Bovee
    American writer
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  • François Fénelon The past but lives in written words: a thousand ages were blank if books had not evoked their ghosts, and kept the pale unbodied shades to warn us from fleshless lips.
    François Fénelon
    French writer and archbishop (1651 - 1715)
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  • Bernard of Clairvaux The peacemakers shall be called the sons of God, who came to make peace between God and man. What then shall the sowers of discord be called, but the children of the devil? And what must they look for but their father's portion?
    Bernard of Clairvaux
    Burgundian abbot (1090 - 1153)
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  • Carl Lewis The people are fed up with their elected officials playing the blame game and treating their political counterparts as enemies.
    Carl Lewis
    American athlete (1961 - )
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  • Andrew Jackson The people are the government, administering it by their agents; they are the government, the sovereign power.
    Andrew Jackson
    American president (7th) (1767 - 1845)
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  • Byron Howard The people around us are at the top of their craft, and we benefit from that.
    Byron Howard
    American film director and producer (1968 - )
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