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  • Pedro Calderón de la Barca One may know how to gain a victory, and know not how to use it.
    Pedro Calderón de la Barca
    Spanish playwright (1600 - 1681)
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  • William Shakespeare One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Ezra Pound One measure of a civilization, either of an age or of a single individual, is what that age or person really wishes to do. A man's hope measures his civilization. The attainability of the hope measures, or may measure, the civilization of his nation and time.
    Ezra Pound
    American poet (1885 - 1972)
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  • Alfred de Vigny One might almost reckon mathematically that, having undergone the double composition of public opinion and of the author, their history reaches us at third hand and is thus separated by two stages from the original fact.
    Alfred de Vigny
    French poet and writer (1797 - 1863)
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg One might call habit a moral friction: something that prevents the mind from gliding over things but connects it with them and makes it hard for it to free itself from them.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Thomas Alva Edison One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But speaking for myself, I can honestly say this is not so... I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.
    Thomas Alva Edison
    American inventor and founder of General Electric (1847 - 1931)
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  • Sir Max Beerbohm One might well say that mankind is divisible into two great classes: hosts and guests.
    Sir Max Beerbohm
    British Actor (1872 - 1956)
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  • Bobbi Kristina Brown One moment I can be happy and laughing, but then it comes over me. It's my mom.
    Bobbi Kristina Brown
    American reality television personality, media personality, and singer (1993 - 2015)
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  • Beilby Porteus One murder made a villain, Millions a hero. Princes were privileg'd To kill, and numbers sanctified the crime. Ah! why will kings forget that they are men, And men that they are brethren?
    Beilby Porteus
    English Bishop and reformer (1731 - 1809)
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  • Gaston Bachelard One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it. To remain in touch with the past requires a love of memory. To remain in touch with the past requires a constant imaginative effort.
    Gaston Bachelard
    French scientist and philosopher (1884 - 1962)
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  • Abba Goold Woolson One must always regret that law of growth which renders necessary that kittens should spoil into demure cats, and bright, joyous school-girls develop into the spiritless, crystallized beings denominated young ladies.
    Abba Goold Woolson
    American writer (0 - 1921)
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  • Jean Cocteau One must be a living man and a posthumous artist.
    Jean Cocteau
    French writer (1889 - 1963)
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  • Vilayat Inayat Khan One must be aware that one is continually being tested in what one wishes most in order to make clear whether one's heart is on earth or in heaven.
    Vilayat Inayat Khan
    Teacher of meditation and of the traditions of Sufism (1882 - 1927)
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  • Barbara Hepworth One must be entirely sensitive to the structure of the material that one is handling. One must yield to it in tiny details of execution, perhaps the handling of the surface or grain, and one must master it as a whole.
    Barbara Hepworth
    English artist and sculptor (1903 - 1975)
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  • C. S. Lewis One must keep on pointing out that Christianity is a statement which, if false, is of no importance, and, if true, of infinite importance. The one thing it cannot be is moderately important.
    Source: Christian Apologetics (1945)
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Blaise Pascal One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better.
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche One must learn to love oneself with a wholesome and healthy love, so that one can bear to be with oneself and need not roam.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Albert Einstein One must not attempt to justify them, but rather to sense their nature simply and clearly.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Thomas Carlyle One must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into the certainty of Yes or NO.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Anna Julia Cooper One needs occasionally to stand aside from the hum and rush of human interests and passions to hear the voices of God.
    Anna Julia Cooper
    American author, activist and sociologist (1858 - 1964)
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