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  • Ashleigh Brilliant Some of my troubles are so familiar, I know them by their first names.
    Ashleigh Brilliant
    American author and cartoonist (1933 - )
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  • Bob Lilly Some of the money going to the rookies can now be spent on people who have proved their worth. After all, the average playing life of a pro football player is about eight years and it is only fitting that the veterans get something for their efforts.
    Bob Lilly
     
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  • John Morley Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired.
    John Morley
    British journalist, statesman (1838 - 1923)
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  • Caleb Cushing Some of them, in accepting the proposed plan of government, coupled their acceptance with a recommendation of various additions to the Constitution, which they deemed essential to the preservation of the rights of the States, or of the People.
    Caleb Cushing
    American Democratic politician and diplomat (1800 - 1879)
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  • Alexander Pope Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Bill Dedman Some parents believe that competition helps prepare children to succeed. Others fear that their children will not be able to handle failure.
    Bill Dedman
    American journalist (1960 - )
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  • Elizabeth Bowen Some people are molded by their admirations, others by their hostilities.
    Elizabeth Bowen
    Anglo-Irish Novelist (1899 - 1973)
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  • Adam Grant Some people are selfish in all of their relationships. Those people are called sociopaths.
    Adam Grant
    American author and professor (1981 - )
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  • David Hare Some people carry their heart in their head and some carry their head in their heart. The trick is to keep them apart yet working together.
    David Hare
    British Playwright, Director (1947 - )
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  • Augustus Hare Some people carry their hearts in their heads; very many carry their heads in their hearts. The difficulty is to keep them apart, yet both actively working together.
    Augustus Hare
    English writer (1834 - 1903)
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  • C. S. Lewis Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the passion of Christ.
    Source: Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Bill James Some people give themselves over to their most evil desires, and those people becomes evil. But in general, it's reductive to think of evil as something foreign and separate from the rest of us. Evil is part of everyone. We all have the capacity to commit evil acts.
    Bill James
    American baseball writer, historian, and statistician (1949 - )
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  • Barbara Bush Some people give time, some money, some their skills and connections, some literally give their life's blood... but everyone has something to give.
    Barbara Bush
    American First Lady (1925 - 2018)
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  • Peter McArthur Some people have so much respect for their superiors they have none left for themselves.
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  • Albert Camus Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Magnus Carlsen Some people think that if their opponent plays a beautiful game, it's OK to lose. I don't. You have to be merciless.
    Magnus Carlsen
    Norwegian chess grandmaster (1990 - )
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  • Mike Tyson Some people try to get you out of slavery for you to be their slave.
    Mike Tyson
    American boxer and media personality (born 1966) (1966 - )
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  • George D. Prentice Some people use one half their ingenuity to get into debt, and the other half to avoid paying it.
    George D. Prentice
    American newspaper editor (1802 - 1870)
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  • Samuel Johnson Some people wave their dogmatic thinking until their own reason is entangled.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Ansel Adams Some photographers take reality... and impose the domination of their own thought and spirit. Others come before reality more tenderly and a photograph to them is an instrument of love and revelation.
    Ansel Adams
    American landscape photographer and environmentalist (1902 - 1984)
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