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  • Barbara Hershey It's also very painful, because I feel, and I know, probably all women my age and older feel like we're better and have more to give and are more fun now.
    Barbara Hershey
    American actress (1948 - )
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  • Erica Jong Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
    Erica Jong
    American author (1942 - )
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  • Sigmund Freud Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.
    Sigmund Freud
    Austrian psychiatrist (1856 - 1939)
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  • Richard Buckminster Fuller Lack of knowledge concerning all the factors and the failure to include them in our integral imposes false conclusions.
    Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking (1975)
    Richard Buckminster Fuller
    American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, and inventor (1895 - 1983)
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  • Dorothy L. Sayers Lawyers enjoy a little mystery, you know. Why, if everybody came forward and told the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth straight out, we should all retire to the workhouse.
    Dorothy L. Sayers
    British writer (1893 - 1957)
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  • Abraham Lincoln Let reverence for the laws be breathed by every American mother to the lisping babe that prattles on her lap. Let it be taught in schools, in seminaries, and in colleges. Let it be written in primers, spelling books, and in almanacs. Let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislative halls, and enforced in the courts of justice. And, in short, let it become the political religion of the nation.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Fjodor M. Dostojewski Love all that has been created by God, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf and every ray of light. Love the beasts and the birds, love the plants, love every separate fragment. If you love each fragment, you will understand the mystery of the whole resting in God.
    Fjodor M. Dostojewski
    Russisch writer (1821 - 1881)
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  • Joseph Addison Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Milan Kundera Mankind's true moral test, its fundamental test (which lies deeply buried from view), consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals. And in this respect mankind has suffered a fundamental debacle, a debacle so fundamental that all others stem from it.
    Milan Kundera
    Tsjech writer and criticus (1929 - 2023)
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  • Voltaire Many are destined to reason wrongly; others, not to reason at all; and others, to persecute those who do reason.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • Jonathan Swift May you live all the days of your life.
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • Daniel Webster Mind is the great lever of all things.
    Daniel Webster
    American lawyer and statesman (1782 - 1852)
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  • George Eliot More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Tryon Edwards Most of our censure of others is only oblique praise of self, uttered to show the wisdom and superiority of the speaker. It has all the invidiousness of self-praise, and all the ill-desert of falsehood.
    Tryon Edwards
    American theologian (1809 - 1894)
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  • John F. Kennedy Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be President, but they don't want them to become politicians in the process.
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • Joseph Addison Music, the greatest good that mortals know, And all of heaven we have below.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Ursula K. Le Guin My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world and exiles me from it.
    Ursula K. Le Guin
    American writer of science fiction and fantasy books (1929 - 2018)
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  • Hannah Arendt No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has determined the very existence of politics, the cause of freedom versus tyranny.
    Hannah Arendt
    German-born American political theorist (1906 - 1975)
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  • Barbara Ehrenreich No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots.
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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