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  • Bernard M. Baruch A political leader must keep looking over his shoulder all the time to see if the boys are still there. If they aren't still there, he's no longer a political leader.
    Bernard M. Baruch
    American investor, philanthropist, statesman, and political consultant (1870 - 1965)
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  • Herm Albright A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
    Herm Albright
    German-American painter and columnist (1876 - 1944)
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  • Woodrow Wilson A radical is one of whom people say ''He goes too far.'' A conservative, on the other hand, is one who ''doesn't go far enough.'' Then there is the reactionary, ''one who doesn't go at all.'' All these terms are more or less objectionable, wherefore we have
    Woodrow Wilson
    American president (1856 - 1924)
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  • James Fenimore Cooper A refined simplicity is the characteristic of all high bred deportment, in every country, and a considerate humanity should be the aim of all beneath it.
    James Fenimore Cooper
    American writer (1789 - 1851)
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  • Robert Graves A remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he is really very good in spite of all the people who say he is very good.
    Robert Graves
    English poet, historical novelist, critic and classicist (1895 - 1985)
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  • Michael LeBoeuf A satisfied customer is the best business strategy of all.
    Michael LeBoeuf
    American business author and management professor (1942 - )
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  • Camille Paglia A serious problem in America is the gap between academe and the mass media, which is our culture. Professors of humanities, with all their leftist fantasies, have little direct knowledge of American life and no impact whatever on public policy.
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Tacitus A shocking crime was committed on the unscrupulous initiative of few individuals, with the blessing of more, and amid the passive acquiescence of all.
    Tacitus
    Roman senator and historian (56 - 117)
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  • C. Wright Mills A society in which all men and women would become people of substantive reason, whose independent reasoning would have structural consequences for their societies, its history and thus for their own life fates.
    The Sociological Imagination (1959)
    C. Wright Mills
    American sociologist (1916 - 1962)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken A society made up of individuals who were all capable of original thought would probably be unendurable.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Henry Giles A song will outlive all sermons in the memory.
    Henry Giles
    British Unitarian minister and writer (1809 - 1882)
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  • Bryan Adams A songwriter writes songs all the time, whereas just writing a song can be done by anyone, anytime.
    Bryan Adams
    Canadian singer, songwriter, record producer and guitarist (1959 - )
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  • Georges Bernanos A thought which does not result in an action is nothing much, and an action which does not proceed from a thought is nothing at all.
    Georges Bernanos
    French writer (1888 - 1948)
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  • Carl Sagan A tiny blue dot set in a sunbeam. Here it is. That's where we live. That's home. We humans are one species and this is our world. It is our responsibility to cherish it. Of all the worlds in our solar system, the only one so far as we know, graced by life.
    Cosmos: A Personal Voyage (1990) 58 min 56 sec
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Oliver Goldsmith A traveler of taste will notice that the wise are polite all over the world, but the fool only at home.
    Oliver Goldsmith
    Irish writer and poet (1728 - 1774)
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  • William Penn A true friend unbosoms freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably.
    William Penn
    English religious leader, founder of Pennsylvania (1644 - 1718)
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  • Cullen Hightower A true measure of your worth includes all the benefits others have gained from your success.
    Cullen Hightower
    American quotation and quip writer (1923 - 2008)
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  • Gerald G. Jampolsky A truly creative person rids him or herself of all self-imposed limitations.
    Gerald G. Jampolsky
    American psychiatrist, Lecturer, writer (1925 - 2020)
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  • William Blake A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.
    William Blake
    English poet (1757 - 1827)
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  • Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle A well cultivated mind is made up of all the minds of preceding ages; it is only the one single mind educated by all previous time.
    Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle
    French author (1657 - 1757)
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