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  • Alfred Marshall In the absence of any short term in common use to represent all desirable things, or things that satisfy human wants, we may use the term Goods for that purpose.
    Alfred Marshall
    British economist (1842 - 1924)
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  • Alfred Marshall In the absence of any short term in common use to represent all desirable things, or things that satisfy human wants, we may use the term Goods for that purpose.
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  • Dag Hammarskjöld In the last analysis it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions life puts to us.
    Dag Hammarskjöld
    Swedish diplomat (1905 - 1961)
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  • Brin-Jonathan Butler In the United States in the 20th century, every major event that America was going through, there was a boxer who seemed to symbolically represent it, from slavery to the Vietnam War to the Depression - all the way along, you just seemed to have boxers that carried the narrative.
    Brin-Jonathan Butler
    American journalist and filmmaker
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  • Rose Kennedy It has been said, 'time heals all wounds.' I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue and the pain lessens. But it is never gone.
    Rose Kennedy
    American philanthropist and mother of John F. Kennedy (1890 - 1995)
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  • Joseph Addison It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of ;antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • James Weldon Johnson It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives it most distinctive characteristics.
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  • Horace Bushnell It is not necessary for all men to be great in action. The greatest and sublimest power is often simple patience.
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  • Molière It is the public scandal that offends; to sin in secret is no sin at all.
    Molière
    French playwright (ps. by J. B. Poquelin) (1622 - 1673)
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  • Desiderius Erasmus It is wisdom in prosperity, when all is as thou wouldn't have it, to fear and suspect the worst.
    Desiderius Erasmus
    Dutch humanist and philosopher (1469 - 1536)
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  • Henry David Thoreau It seems to me that the god that is commonly worshipped in civilized countries is not at all divine, though he bears a divine name, but is the overwhelming authority and respectability of mankind combined. Men reverence one another, not yet God.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Barbara Hambly It'll take a while for all those strange old books that I love to show up on digital: books that aren't current bestsellers but aren't public-domain freebies, either.
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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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  • 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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