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  • François Fénelon All earthly delights are sweeter in expectation than in enjoyment; but all spiritual pleasures more in fruition than in expectation.
    François Fénelon
    French writer and archbishop (1651 - 1715)
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  • Rainer Maria Rilke All emotions are pure which gather you and lift you up; that emotion is impure which seizes only one side of your being and so distorts you.
    Rainer Maria Rilke
    German poet (1875 - 1926)
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  • John Dryden All empire is no more than power in trust.
    John Dryden
    English poet and playwright (1631 - 1700)
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  • William Butler Yeats All empty souls tend to extreme opinions.
    William Butler Yeats
    Irish poet (1865 - 1939)
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  • Tacitus All enterprises that are entered into with indiscreet zeal may be pursued with great vigor at first, but are sure to collapse in the end.
    Tacitus
    Roman senator and historian (56 - 117)
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  • Bjarke Ingels All evidence shows that we are actually getting smarter. Roughly we are getting 10 IQ points smarter every decade. The speed of innovation is also faster.
    Bjarke Ingels
    Danish architect and businessman (1974 - )
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  • Thomas Carlyle All evil is like a nightmare; the instant you stir under it, the evil is gone.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Pierre Corneille All evils are equal when they are extreme.
    Pierre Corneille
    French playwright (1606 - 1684)
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  • Daniel Defoe All evils are to be considered with the good that is in them, and with what worse attends them.
    Robinson Crusoe (1719)
    Daniel Defoe
    English writer (1660 - 1731)
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  • Baruch Spinoza All excellent things are as difficult as they are rare.
    Baruch Spinoza
    Dutch philosopher (1632 - 1677)
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  • Aaron C. Brown All exchange stimulates productive activity, whether exchange by gift, gambling, barter, or money transaction.
    The Poker Face of Wall Street (2006) Ch. 5
    Aaron C. Brown
    American finance practitioner (1956 - )
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  • Alfred Lord Tennyson All experience is an arch wherethrough gleams that untravelled world whose margin fades for ever and for ever when I move.
    Alfred Lord Tennyson
    English poet (1809 - 1892)
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  • Lord George Byron All farewells should be sudden, when forever.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Charles Baudelaire All fashions are charming, or rather relatively charming, each one being a new striving, more or less well conceived, after beauty, an approximate statement of an ideal, the desire for which constantly teases the unsatisfied human mind.
    Charles Baudelaire
    French poet (1821 - 1867)
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  • Walt Whitman All faults may be forgiven of him who has perfect candor.
    Walt Whitman
    American poet, essayist, and journalist (1819 - 1892)
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  • Bertrand Russell All fear is bad, and ought to be overcome not by fairy tales, but by courage and rational reflection.
    On Fear
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • François Truffaut All film directors, whether famous or obscure, regard themselves as misunderstood or underrated. Because of that, they all lie. They're obliged to overstate their own importance.
    François Truffaut
    French filmmaker (1932 - 1984)
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  • Bruce Lee All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.
    Bruce Lee
    Chinese-American Actor, Director, Author, Martial Artist (1940 - 1973)
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  • Alexandre Dumas père All for one, one for all, that is our device.
    The Three Musketeers
    Alexandre Dumas père
    French writer (1802 - 1870)
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  • Alexandre Dumas père All for one, one for all.
    Original: Tous pour un, un pour tous.
    Alexandre Dumas père
    French writer (1802 - 1870)
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