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  • Nicolas Chamfort All passions exaggerate; and they are passions only because they do exaggerate.
    Nicolas Chamfort
    French writer, journalist and playwright (1741 - 1794)
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  • Harry Millner All progress occurs because people dare to be different.
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  • Buddy Wakefield All these kids you can't seem to make any sense of would stop holding you so far off the edge of your seats if you'd start holding yourselves to the promises you make. We know you're not perfect because we're not. And I know I ain't perfect. But I believe I was meant to be.
    Poetry Older People
    Buddy Wakefield
    American poet and actor (1974 - )
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  • Immanuel Kant All thought must, directly or indirectly, by way of certain characters, relate ultimately to intuitions, and therefore, with us, to sensibility, because in no other way can an object be given to us.
    Immanuel Kant
    German philosopher (1724 - 1804)
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  • Audre Lorde All writers have periods when they stop writing, when they cannot write, and this is always painful and terrible because writing is like breathing.
    Audre Lorde
    American writer, feminist, womanist, librarian, and civil (1934 - 1992)
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  • Buddha All wrong-doing arises because of mind. If mind is transformed can wrong-doing remain?
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • Bob Parsons Almost nothing works the first time it's attempted. Just because what you're doing does not seem to be working, doesn't mean it won't work. It just means that it might not work the way you're doing it.
    Bob Parsons
    American entrepreneur, billionaire, and philanthropist (1950 - )
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  • Tatyana Tolstaya Already the writers are complaining that there is too much freedom. They need some pressure. The worse your daily life, the better your art. If you have to be careful because of oppression and censorship, this pressure produces diamonds.
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  • Ben Goldacre Alternative therapists don't kill many people, but they do make a great teaching tool for the basics of evidence-based medicine, because their efforts to distort science are so extreme.
    Ben Goldacre
    British physician, academic (1974 - )
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  • Wilson Mizner Always be nice to people on the way up; because you'll meet the same people on the way down.
    Wilson Mizner
    American Author (1876 - 1933)
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  • Cyril Connolly Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.
    Cyril Connolly
    British criticus (1903 - 1974)
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  • Phyllis Diller Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.
    Phyllis Diller
    American actress and stand-up (1917 - 2012)
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  • Beth Behrs Always make sure you have your rent. At the end of the month, if you have to eat Ramen for a week because you won't have your rent money, just do it but make sure your rent is all there so you're not stressing about that. As long as you have your rent at least you have somewhere to live.
    Beth Behrs
    American actress and writer (1985 - )
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  • Barry Humphries Am I old-fashioned? I think I might be. I am a lucky woman, because I was born with a priceless gift... the ability to laugh at the misfortunes of others.
    Op Broadway in Dame Edna Back With A Vengeance 2004
    Barry Humphries
    Australian comedian, actor, artist, and author (1934 - 2023)
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  • Carl Lewis Amateurism is the strongest form of discrimination in sports. Because it discriminates against the underprivileged, it discriminates against the poor. If we want sports to go back to the wealthy, let's make it amateur again.
    Carl Lewis
    American athlete (1961 - )
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  • Martin Amis America has had much more respect for its writers because they had to define what America was. America wasn't sure what it was.
    Martin Amis
    British novelist (1949 - 2023)
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  • Billy Graham America is said to have the highest per capita boredom of any spot on earth! We know that because we have the greatest number of artificial amusements of any country. People have become so empty that they can't even entertain themselves. They have to pay other people to amuse them, to make them laugh, to try to make them feel warm and happy and comfortable for a few minutes, to try to lose that awful, frightening, hollow feeling-that terrible, dreaded feeling of being lost and alone.
    Billy Graham
    American Evangelist (1918 - 2018)
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  • Carlisle Floyd America tends to worship the modest talent because it doesn't put us in an uncomfortable position vis-a-vis the artist.
    Carlisle Floyd
    American opera composer
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  • Billy Graham America's founding fathers did not intend to take religion out of education. Many of the nation's greatest universities were founded by evangelists and religious leaders; but many of these have lost the founders concept and become secular institutions. Because of this attitude, secular education is stumbling and floundering.
    Billy Graham
    American Evangelist (1918 - 2018)
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  • Carice van Houten American actresses have more problems than I do; I'm lucky to be able to play what I want for a smaller audience, because I have my own country to do that in.
    Carice van Houten
    Dutch actress, singer and radio presenter (1976 - )
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