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  • Donna Tartt Sometimes you can do all the right things and not succeed. And that's a hard lesson of reality.
    Donna Tartt
    American author (1963 - )
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  • Casey Wilson Somewhere along the way, I think I realised that taking yourself seriously is the worst thing that you can do in life, so once I let that go, I've just let it all go. I have no standard of personal dignity.
    Casey Wilson
    American actress, comedian, and screenwriter (1980 - )
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  • Anna Quindlen Somewhere between a third and a quarter of all people living in America today were born between 1946 and 1965 and if you think you're tired of hearing about us, you should try being one of us.
    Anna Quindlen
    American author and journalist (1952 - )
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  • Terry Pratchett Sooner or later we're all someone's dog.
    Terry Pratchett
    English author of fantasy novels, especially comical works (1948 - 2015)
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  • J. G. Ballard Sooner or later, all games become serious.
    Super-Cannes (2000)
    J. G. Ballard
    British author (1930 - 2009)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Sorrow makes us all children again, destroys all differences of intellect. The wisest knows nothing.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Sir Walter Scott Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife! To all the sensual world proclaim. One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.
    Sir Walter Scott
    British writer and poet (1771 - 1832)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Bill Lipinski Speak up! We live in a democracy. We all need to make sure our voices are heard and our opinions are known.
    Bill Lipinski
    American politician (1937 - )
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  • George Eliot Speech is often barren; but silence also does not necessarily brood over a full nest. Your still fowl, blinking at you without remark, may all the while be sitting on one addled egg; and when it takes to cackling will have nothing to announce but that addled delusion.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Alice Meynell Spirit of place! It is for this we travel, to surprise its subtlety; and where it is a strong and dominant angel, that place, seen once, abides entire in the memory with all its own accidents, its habits, its breath, its name.
    Alice Meynell
    British poet, writer (1847 - 1922)
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  • Benjamin Stillingfleet Spite of all the fools that pride has made, 'Tis not on man a useless burthen laid; Pride has ennobled some, and some disgraced; It hurts not in itself, but as 'tis placed; When right, its views know none but virtue's bound; When wrong, it scarcely looks one inch around.
    Benjamin Stillingfleet
    British botanist, translator and author (1702 - 1771)
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  • Ouida Sport inevitably creates deadness of feeling. No one could take pleasure in it who was sensitive to suffering; and therefore its pursuit by women is much more to be regretted than its pursuit by men, because women pursue much more violently and recklessly what they pursue at all.
    Ouida
    English novelist, pseudonym of Maria Louise Ramé (1839 - 1908)
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  • Bruce Dern Sports betting is all about money management, so the most money won on one event is not the most important thing.
    Bruce Dern
    American actor (1936 - )
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  • Bill Bradley Sports is a metaphor for overcoming obstacles and achieving against great odds. Athletes, in times of difficulty, can be important role models.
    Bill Bradley
    American former professional basketball player and politician (1943 - )
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  • Art Rooney Sportswriters. They were all my friends. They were racetrack guys and so was I.
    Art Rooney
    American football team owner (1901 - )
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  • Bryan Callen Stand-up comedy is all you. It's your show, it's your game. You control every aspect of it - of that experience and that expression. There's really nothing quite as satisfying.
    Bryan Callen
    American stand-up comedian, actor, writer (1967 - )
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  • Anna Lindh States have the responsibility to create rules and conditions for growth and development, and to channel the benefits to all citizens by providing education and making people able to participate in the economies, and in decision-making.
    Anna Lindh
    Swedish Social Democratic politician (1957 - 2003)
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  • Machiavelli States that rise quickly, just as all the other things of nature that are born and grow rapidly, cannot have roots and ramifications; the first bad weather kills them.
    Machiavelli
    Florentine state philosopher (1469 - 1527)
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  • Lewis Thomas Statistically, the probability of any of us being here is so small that you'd think the mere fact of existing would keep us all in contented dazzlement of surprise.
    Lewis Thomas
    American arts (1913 - 1993)
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