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  • Eric Hoffer To the excessively fearful the chief characteristic of power is its arbitrariness. Man had to gain enormously in confidence before he could conceive an all-powerful God who obeys his own laws.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Albert Einstein To the Master's honor all must turn, each in its track, without a sound, forever tracing Newton's ground.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe To the person with a firm purpose all men and things are servants.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Walt Whitman To the real artist in humanity, what are called bad manners are often the most picturesque and significant of all.
    Walt Whitman
    American poet, essayist, and journalist (1819 - 1892)
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  • Carroll Quigley To this day the Arab influence is evident in southern Italy, northern Africa and, above all, in Spain.
    Carroll Quigley
    American historian and theorist (1910 - 1977)
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  • Brenda Song To this day, just always treat people the way you want to be treated. Whether it's family or friends or co-workers, I think it's the most important thing. Whether you have success or don't have it, whether you're a good person is all that matters.
    Brenda Song
    American actress (1988 - )
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  • Aldous Huxley To travel is to discover that everybody is wrong. The philosophies, the civilizations which seem, at a distance, so superior to those current at home, all prove on a close inspection to be in their own way just as hopelessly imperfect.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Robert Thibodeau To try is all. It matters not if one succeeds or fails outwardly.
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  • Norman Thomas To us Americans much has been given; of us much is required. With all our faults and mistakes, it is our strength in support of the freedom our forefathers loved which has saved mankind from subjection to totalitarian power.
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  • Barbara Boxer To win the cause we all believe in, the spread of true democracy all over the world, we need to win by example, not just with speeches but by example; not just with military might but by gaining the respect of the world.
    Barbara Boxer
    American politician (1940 - )
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  • Lord George Byron To withdraw myself from myself has ever been my sole, my entire, my sincere motive in scribbling at all.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Carl Sandburg To work hard, to live hard, to die hard, and then go to hell after all would be too damn hard.
    Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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  • Carl Sandburg To work hard, to live hard, to die hard, and then to go to hell after all would be too damned hard.
    Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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  • Lorrie Moore To write a short story, you have to be able to stay up all night.
    (2011)
    Lorrie Moore
    American fiction writer (1957 - )
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  • F. Scott Fitzgerald To write it - three months, to conceive it - three minutes. To collect the data in it - all my life.
    Zelf-interview over This Side of Paradise
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    American writer (1896 - 1940)
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  • A. E. Housman To-day, the road all runners come,
    Shoulder-high, we bring you home,
    And set you at your threshold down,
    Townsman of a stiller town.
    A Shropshire Lad (1896) No. 19 (To an Athlete Dying Young), st. 2
    A. E. Housman
    British poet (1859 - 1936)
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  • Bob Graham Today 80 percent of all the oil that comes out of the Gulf is from 1,000 feet or more and today almost a third of it is more than 5,000 feet below the surface. What hasn't happened is the safety and the ability to respond to a negative event such as this blowout, has been far outrun by the technology of drilling itself. We need to close that gap.
    Bob Graham
    American politician and author (1936 - )
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  • Bernardine Dohrn Today enormous effort goes into convincing the American public that we're just consumers of media manipulation and sound-bites and spin doctors. That we care only about ourselves, money, and stuff. That acting out of passion and conviction doesn't make a difference. But all history shows that it does.
    Bernardine Dohrn
    American law professor and activist
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  • Bette Davis Today everyone is a star - they're all billed as 'starring' or 'also starring'. In my day, we earned that recognition.
    Bette Davis
    American Actress, Producer (1908 - 1989)
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  • Richard P. Feynman Today we say that the law of relativity is supposed to be true at all energies, but someday somebody may come along and say how stupid we were.
    Richard P. Feynman
    American theoretical physicist and Nobel price winner (1918 - 1988)
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