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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Envy is the tax which all distinction must pay.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Joseph De Maistre False opinions are like false money, struck first of all by guilty men and thereafter circulated by honest people who perpetuate the crime without knowing what they are doing.
    Joseph De Maistre
    French diplomat and philosopher (1753 - 1821)
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  • Benjamin Disraeli Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • August Strindberg Family... the home of all social evil, a charitable institution for comfortable women, an anchorage for house-fathers, and a hell for children.
    August Strindberg
    Swedish writer (1849 - 1912)
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  • Bette Davis Fasten your seat belts, it's going to be a bumpy night! [As Margo Channing in All About Eve]
    Bette Davis
    American Actress, Producer (1908 - 1989)
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  • Lydia M. Child Flowers have spoken to me more than I can tell in written words. They are the hieroglyphics of angels, loved by all men for the beauty of the character, though few can decipher even fragments of their meaning.
    Lydia M. Child
    American Abolitionist, Writer, Editor (1802 - 1880)
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  • Ann Bancroft For me, the greatest obstacles are never on the ice itself. That's the area I excel in. That's where my passion is. I think we all strive to push ourselves, to overcome our struggles. And when we do, we get to know ourselves better.
    Ann Bancroft
    American author, teacher, adventurer (1955 - )
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  • Winston Churchill For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Arthur Christopher Benson Friend, of my infinite dreams Little enough endures; Little howe'er it seems, It is yours, all yours.
    Arthur Christopher Benson
    English essayist, poet, author and academic (1862 - 1925)
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  • Eleanor Roosevelt Friendship with oneself is all-important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
    Eleanor Roosevelt
    American "First Lady" and columnist (1884 - 1962)
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  • Emile Durkheim From top to bottom of the ladder, greed is aroused without knowing where to find ultimate foothold. Nothing can calm it, since its goal is far beyond all it can attain. Reality seems valueless by comparison with the dreams of fevered imaginations; reality is therefore abandoned.
    Emile Durkheim
    French sociologist (1858 - 1917)
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  • Busta Rhymes Fuck that! Look at shorty, she a little cutie yo (yeah)
    The way she shake it make me wanna get all in the booty yo (whoo!)
    Top miss, just hit the bangin' bitches in videos
    Put Your Hands Where My Eyes Can See.
    Busta Rhymes
    American rapper, musician, record producer and actor (1972 - )
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  • Adolf Hitler Germany will either be a world power or will not be at all.
    Adolf Hitler
    German politician (1889 - 1945)
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  • Casey Stengel Going to bed with a woman never hurt a ball player. It's staying up all night looking for them that does you in.
    Casey Stengel
    American basketbal player and manager (1890 - 1975)
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  • St. Francis de Sales Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections, but instantly set about remedying them - every day begin the task anew -
    St. Francis de Sales
    Bishop of Geneva and is honored as a saint in the Catholic Church (1567 - 1622)
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  • Saadi Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy.
    Saadi
    Persian poet and literary of the medieval period (1200 - 1292)
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  • Edmund Burke He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper. This amicable conflict with difficulty helps us to an intimate acquaintance with our object, and compels us to consider it in all its relations. It will not suffer us to be superficial.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • Sun Tzu Hence to fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.
    Sun Tzu
    Chinese general and strategist (544 - 496)
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  • Samuel Johnson Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords: but, like all other pleasures immoderately enjoyed, the excesses of hope must be expiated by pain; and expectations improperly indulged must end in disappointment.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Harriet Beecher Stowe Human nature is above all things lazy.
    Household Papers and Stories (1864) Ch. 6
    Harriet Beecher Stowe
    American Novelist (1811 - 1896)
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