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  • Lady Mary Wortley Montagu Strictly speaking, there is but one real evil: I mean acute pain. All other complaints are so considerably diminished by time that it is plain the grief is owing to our passion, since the sensation of it vanishes when that is over.
    Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
    English writer (1689 - 1762)
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  • Bobby Scott Studies have shown that inmate participation in education, vocational and job training, prison work skills development, drug abuse, mental health and other treatment programs, all reduce recidivism, significantly.
    Bobby Scott
    American politician (1947 - )
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  • Bill Mollison Stupidity is an attempt to iron out all differences, and not to use or value them creatively.
    Source: Permaculture: A Designers Manual chapter 4.7
    Bill Mollison
    Australian author, teacher and biologist (1928 - 2016)
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  • Samuel Johnson Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Charles Caleb Colton Subtract from the great man all that he owes to opportunity, all that he owes to chance, and all that he gained by the wisdom of his friends and the folly of his enemies, and the giant will often be seen to be a pygmy.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • John Ruskin Success by the laws of competition signifies a victory over others by obtaining the direction and profits of their work. This is the real source of all great riches.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Orville Wright Success four flights Thursday morning all against twenty one mile wind started from Level with engine power alone speed through air thirty one miles longest 57 second inform Press home Christmas.
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  • Wilferd Arlan Peterson Success is focusing the full power of all you are one what you have a burning desire to achieve.
    Wilferd Arlan Peterson
    American author (1900 - 1995)
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  • John Wooden Success is peace of mind, a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming, and not just in a physical way: seek ye first the kingdom and His righteousness and all these things will be yours as well.
    John Wooden
    American basketball player and head coach (1910 - 2010)
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  • Konstantin Stanislavisky Success is transient, evanescent. The real passion lies in the poignant acquisition of knowledge about all the shading and subtleties of the creative secrets.
    Konstantin Stanislavisky
    Russian Actor, Theatre director, Teacher (1863 - 1938)
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  • Junot Diaz Success, after all, loves a witness, but failure can't exist without one.
    Source: Het korte maar wonderbaarlijke leven van Oscar Wao (2008) 136
    Junot Diaz
    Dominican-American writer (1968 - )
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  • Aldous Huxley Successfully (whatever that may mean) or unsuccessfully, we all overact the part of our favorite character in fiction.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Arthur Peacocke Such an emphasis on the immanence of God as Creator in, with, and under the natural processes of the world unveiled by the sciences is certainly in accord with all that the sciences have revealed since those debates of the nineteenth century.
    Arthur Peacocke
    English Anglican theologian and biochemist (1924 - 2006)
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  • John Dewey Such happiness as life is capable of comes from the full participation of all our powers in the endeavor to wrest from each changing situations of experience its own full and unique meaning.
    John Dewey
    American philosopher (1859 - 1952)
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  • Captain J. G. Stedman Such indeed is the superior longevity of the fair females of Surinam, compared to that of the males (owing chiefly, as I said, to their excesses of all sorts) that I have frequently known wives who have buried four husbands, but never met a man in this country who had survived two wives.
    Captain J. G. Stedman
    British soldiar, writer, artist (1744 - 1797)
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  • Charles Dickens Such is hope, heaven's own gift to struggling mortals, pervading, like some subtle essence from the skies, all things both good and bad.
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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  • Anatole France Suffering! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.
    Anatole France
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1921) (1844 - 1924)
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  • Philip Roth Suicide is the role you write for yourself. You inhabit it and you enact it. All carefully staged -- where they will find you and how they will find you. But one performance only.
    Philip Roth
    American Novelist (1933 - 2018)
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  • Ada Louise Huxtable Summer is the time when one sheds one's tensions with one's clothes, and the right kind of day is jeweled balm for the battered spirit. A few of those days and you can become drunk with the belief that all's right with the world.
    Ada Louise Huxtable
    American architecture critic and writer (1921 - 2013)
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  • Booth Tarkington Superciliousness is not safe after all, because a person who forms the habit of wearing it may some day find his lower lip grown permanently projected beyond the upper, so that he can't get it back, and must go through life looking like the King of Spain.
    Booth Tarkington
    American novelist and dramatist (1869 - 1946)
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