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  • Napoleon Hill The path of least resistance makes all rivers, and some men, crooked.
    Napoleon Hill
    American self-help author (1883 - 1970)
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  • Alain Juppe The people have spoken. Their decision is sovereign. We all respect it... I wish good luck to those who will now govern France.
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  • Henry David Thoreau The perch swallows the grub-worm, the pickerel swallows the perch, and the fisherman swallows the pickerel; and so all the chinks in the scale of being are filled.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Brooks Atkinson The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.
    Once Around the Sun (1951)
    Brooks Atkinson
    American theatre critic (1894 - 1984)
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  • Seng-Ts'an The Perfect Way is only difficult for those who pick and choose. Do not like, do not dislike; all will then be clear. Make a hairbreadth difference, and Heaven and Earth are set apart.
    Seng-Ts'an
    Chinese third patriarch of Zen Buddhism
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  • Confucius The perfecting of one's self is the fundamental base of all progress and all moral development.
    Confucius
    Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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  • Carlisle Floyd The performances of my works in the last 10 years are probably equal to all the previous years put together. There are so many venues now and there is a completely new public for opera that's grown up outside of the traditional core opera public.
    Carlisle Floyd
    American opera composer
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  • Menander of Athens The person who has the will to undergo all labor may win any goal.
    Menander of Athens
    Greek dramati poet (342 - 291)
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  • Og Mandino The person who knows one thing and does it better than anyone else, even if it only be the art of raising lentils, receives the crown he merits. If he raises all his energy to that end, he is a benefactor of mankind and its rewarded as such.
    Og Mandino
    American author (1923 - 1996)
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  • Stuart Wilde The person who said money is the root of all evil just flat out didn't have any.
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  • Claudius Claudianus The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another's keeping .
    Claudius Claudianus
    Latin writer of Greek descent (370 - 404)
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  • Will Rogers The person with the best job in the country is the vice president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, ''How is the president?''
    Will Rogers
    American actor and humorist (1879 - 1935)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The pest of society are the egotist, they are dull and bright, sacred and profane, course and fine. It is a disease that like the flu falls on all constitutions.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • William Winwood Reade The philosophic spirit of inquiry may be traced to brute curiosity, and that to the habit of examining all things in search of food.
    William Winwood Reade
    British historian (1838 - 1875)
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  • Burt Rutan The photographs of space taken by our astronauts have been published all over the place. But the eye is a much more dynamic mechanism than any camera or pictures. It's a more exciting view in person than looking at the photographs. Of course, I personally am sick and tired of hearing people talk like that: I want to see it myself!
    Burt Rutan
    American aerospace engineer and entrepreneur (1943 - )
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  • George Bernard Shaw The pianoforte is the most important of all musical instruments; its invention was to music what the invention of printing was to poetry.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Thornton Wilder The planting of trees in the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children.
    Thornton Wilder
    American writer and playwright (1897 - 1975)
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  • Bertolt Brecht The plum tree in the yard's so small
    It's hardly like a tree at all.
    Yet there it is, railed round
    To keep it safe and sound. The poor thing can't grow any more
    Though if it could it would for sure.
    There's nothing to be done
    It gets too little sun.
    Poems, 1913-1956 The Plum Tree [Der Pfaumenbaum] (1934) from The Sv
    Bertolt Brecht
    German - Austrian writer (1898 - 1956)
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  • A. R. Ammons The poet exposes himself to the risk. All that has been said about poetry, all that he has learned about poetry, is only a partial assurance.
    Set in motion: essays, interviews, and dialogues (1996 edition), Univ of Michigan Pr
    A. R. Ammons
    American poet (1926 - 2001)
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  • Dame Edith Sitwell The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten.
    Dame Edith Sitwell
    British poet (1887 - 1964)
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