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  • Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle A well-cultivated mind is, so to speak, made up of all the minds of preceding ages; it is only one single mind which has been educated during all this time.
    Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle
    French author (1657 - 1757)
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  • Bob Shacochis A whole bunch of agents and editors looked at my stories, and they all said, in effect, 'You're a pretty good writer and you should probably get these published; when you grow up and write a novel, get in touch.'
    Bob Shacochis
    American writer (1951 - )
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  • Samuel Johnson A wicked fellow is the most pious when he takes to it. He'll beat you all at piety.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Edward. E. Cummings A wind has blown the rain away and blown the sky away and all the leaves away, and the trees stand. I think, I too, have known autumn too long.
    Edward. E. Cummings
    American poet, painter, essayist, author, and playwright (1894 - 1962)
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  • Robert Cecil A wise man looks upon men as he does on horses; all their comparisons of title, wealth, and place, he consider but as harness.
    Robert Cecil
    English statesman (1563 - 1612)
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  • Betty Friedan A woman is handicapped by her sex, and handicaps society, either by slavishly copying the pattern of man's advance in the professions, or by refusing to compete with man at all.
    Betty Friedan
    American feministisch writer (1921 - 2006)
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  • Marcel Proust A woman one loves rarely suffices for all our needs, so we deceive her with another whom we do not love.
    Marcel Proust
    French writer and critic (1871 - 1922)
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  • Achille Poincelot A woman's faults, be they never so small, cast a shadow which all her virtues cannot dispel.
    Achille Poincelot
    French aphorism writer
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  • Bill Cosby A word to the wise isn't necessary, it is the stupid ones who need all the advice.
    Bill Cosby
    American actor, comedian, producer (1937 - )
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  • Eugène Ionesco A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind.
    Eugène Ionesco
    Romanian - French writer (1909 - 1994)
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  • Margaret Thatcher A world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us.
    Margaret Thatcher
    British Prime Minister (1979-1990) (1925 - 2013)
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  • St. John of the Cross Abide in peace, banish cares, take no account of all that happens, and you will serve God according to his good pleasure and rest in him.
    St. John of the Cross
    Spanish mystic, a Roman Catholic saint, a Carmelite friar and a priest (1542 - 1591)
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  • Casey Stengel Ability is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hits.
    Casey Stengel
    American basketbal player and manager (1890 - 1975)
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  • Will Rogers About all I can say for the United States Senate is that it opens with a prayer and closes with an investigation.
    Will Rogers
    American actor and humorist (1879 - 1935)
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  • James Allen Above all be of single aim; have a legitimate and useful purpose, and devote yourself unreservedly to it.
    James Allen
    British philosophical writer (1864 - 1912)
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  • Angela Merkel Above all it is important to point out that we can only maintain our prosperity in Europe if we belong to the most innovative regions in the world.
    Angela Merkel
    German politician and chancellor (1954 - )
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  • Goldwin Smith Above all nations is humanity.
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  • St. Francis of Assisi Above all the grace and the gifts that Christ gives to his beloved is that of overcoming self.
    St. Francis of Assisi
    Italian saint, founder of the Franciscan monastic order (1182 - 1226)
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  • Philip Larkin Above all, though, children are linked to adults by the simple fact that they are in process of turning into them. For this they may be forgiven much. Children are bound to be inferior to adults, or there is no incentive to grow up.
    Philip Larkin
    English poet, novelist and librarian (1922 - 1985)
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  • Ronald Reagan Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today's world do not have.
    Ronald Reagan
    American politician and actor (1911 - 2004)
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