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  • Comte De Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont Sleep is a reward for some, a punishment for others. For all, it is a sanction.
    Comte De Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont
    French author, poet (1846 - 1870)
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  • William Golding Sleep is when all the unsorted stuff comes flying out as from a dustbin upset in a high wind.
    William Golding
    British writer (1911 - 1993)
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  • Benjamin Franklin Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry, all things easy. He that rises late must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night, while laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Samuel Johnson Small debts are like small gun shot; they are rattling around us on all sides and one can scarcely escape being wounded. Large debts are like canons, they produce a loud noise, but are of little danger.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Brooke Shields Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
    Brooke Shields
    American actress and model (1965 - )
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  • Brooke Shields Smoking... kills you, and if you are killed, you have lost a very important part of your life.
    Testimony at House of Representatives hearings on cigarette advertising, 25 June 1981
    Brooke Shields
    American actress and model (1965 - )
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  • Benoit Mandelbrot Smooth shapes are very rare in the wild but extremely important in the ivory tower and the factory.
    Benoit Mandelbrot
    Polish-born French and American mathematician and polymath (1924 - 2010)
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  • Boris Pasternak Snow, snow over the whole land
    across all boundaries.
    The candle burned on the table,
    the candle burned.
    Doctor Zhivago (1957)
    Boris Pasternak
    Russian writer (1890 - 1960)
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  • Barry McCaffrey So at the end of the day, our number 1 goal, our top priority, is to motivate American youngsters to reject the abuse of illegal drugs, tobacco and alcohol. All three of them are illegal behaviors.
    Barry McCaffrey
    American Army officer, professor and business consultant (1942 - )
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  • Buffalo Bill So for twelve miles I rode with Sherman, and we became fast friends. He asked me all manner of questions on the way, and I found that he knew my father well, and remembered his tragic death in Salt Creek Valley.
    An Autobiography of Buffalo Bill (2009 edition)
    Buffalo Bill
    American soldier, bison hunter, and showman (1846 - 1917)
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  • Aleksander Kwasniewski So I think that I can say, as the President of Poland, we're proud that I am coming from Poland, which is different and what's more important, much better than before.
    Aleksander Kwasniewski
    Polish politician and journalist (1954 - )
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  • Aleksander Kwasniewski So I think that is from the European perspective, for the European future, this engagement can be one of the most important and effective decisions in the last 50 years maybe.
    Aleksander Kwasniewski
    Polish politician and journalist (1954 - )
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  • Aristotle So it is naturally with the male and the female; the one is superior, the other inferior; the one governs, the other is governed; and the same rule must necessarily hold good with respect to all mankind.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe So long as you live and work, you will be misunderstood; to that you must resign yourself once and for all. Be silent!
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Ella Wheeler Wilcox So many gods, so many creeds, So many paths that wind and wind, While just the art of being kind is all the sad world needs.
    Ella Wheeler Wilcox
    American Poet, Journalist (1850 - 1919)
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  • Lord George Byron So much alarmed that she is quite alarming, All Giggle, Blush, half Pertness, and half Pout.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Benjamin Franklin So much for industry, my friends, and attention to one's own business; but to these we must add frugality if we would make our industry more certainly successful. A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose all his life to the grindstone, and die not worth a grout at last.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Haniel Long So much of what is best in us is bound up in our love of family, that it remains the measure of our stability because it measures our sense of loyalty. All other pacts of love or fear derive from it and are modeled upon it.
    Haniel Long
    American writer, poet, journalist (1888 - 1956)
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  • Boethius So nothing is ever good or bad unless you think it so, and vice versa. All luck is good luck to the man who bears it with equanimity.
    Boethius
    Roman senator, consul, magister officiorum, and philosopher (480 - 524)
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  • Calista Flockhart So people think I'm lying about my age all the time? It's the records that are wrong. I've never told anyone how old I am. The minute they ask me, I say 'That's none of your business.' So that means I've never once lied about my age. Now that's true!
    Calista Flockhart
    American actress (1964 - )
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