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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton To be clever enough to get all the money, one must be stupid enough to want it.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg To be content with life - or to live merrily, rather -all that is required is that we bestow on all things only a fleeting, superficial glance; the more thoughtful we become the more earnest we grow.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Samuel Johnson To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Helen Rowland To be happy with a man you must understand him a lot and love him a little. To be happy with a woman you must love her a lot and not try to understand her at all.
    Helen Rowland
    American journalist (1875 - 1950)
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  • Bill Engvall To be honest with you, I still eat whatever I want. It's all about portion control. I still love pizza, but instead of eating half, I eat a slice.
    Bill Engvall
    American comedian and actor (1957 - )
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  • Buddha To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • Plutarch To be ignorant of the lives of the most celebrated men of antiquity is to continue in a state of childhood all our days.
    Plutarch
    Greek biographer and essayist (46 - 120)
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  • Hannah Arendt To be sure, nothing is more important to the integrity of the universities than a rigorously enforced divorce from war-oriented research and all connected enterprises.
    Hannah Arendt
    German-born American political theorist (1906 - 1975)
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  • Mark Van Doren To be what no one ever was, to be what everyone has been: Freedom is the mean of those extremes that fence all effort in.
    Mark Van Doren
    American poet, writer and critic (1894 - 1972)
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  • William Shakespeare To be wise and love exceeds man's might.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Henry Drummond To become Christ-like is the only thing in the whole world worth caring for, the thing before which every ambition of man is folly and all lower achievement vain.
    Henry Drummond
    Scottish evangelist, biologist, writer and lecturer (1786 - 1860)
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  • Cary Fowler To begin with, I've always known that I was a little bit different. And, I have a lot of relatives who own farms. I grew up in the American South where political issues and issues of justice were at the forefront. What I do now is a combination of all these factors.
    Cary Fowler
    American agriculturalist and businessman (1949 - )
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  • Mahatma Gandhi To believe what has not occurred in history will not occur at all, is to argue disbelief in the dignity of man.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men - that is genius.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Albert Camus To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't everything.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Samuel Butler To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Oscar Wilde To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the most intellectual.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • W. M. Thackeray To endure is greater than to dare; to tire out hostile fortune; to be daunted by no difficulty; to keep heart when all have lost it; to go through intrigue spotless; to forego even ambition when the end is gained - who can say this is not greatness?
    W. M. Thackeray
    Indian-born, British novelist (1811 - 1863)
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  • George Bernard Shaw To endure the pain of living, we all drug ourselves more or less with gin, with literature, with superstitions, with romance, with idealism, political, sentimental, and moral, with every possible preparation of that universal hashish: imagination.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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