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  • Gabriel Garcia Marquez The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.
    Gabriel Garcia Marquez
    Colombian writer (1927 - 2014)
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  • Dean Inge The proper time to influence the character of a child is about a hundred years before he is born.
    Dean Inge
     
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  • Will Rogers The Republicans have their splits right after election and Democrats have theirs just before an election.
    Will Rogers
    American actor and humorist (1879 - 1935)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes The riders in a race do not stop when they reach the goal. There is a little finishing canter before coming to a standstill. There is time to hear the kind voices of friends and say to oneself, The work is done.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Billy Sunday The rivers of America will run with blood filled to their banks before we will submit to them taking the Bible out of our schools.
    Source: As quoted in "Leaving the fold: testimonies of former fundamentalists" by Edward T. Babinski, Prometheus Books, 1995, p. 435
    Billy Sunday
    American athlete and evangelist (1862 - 1935)
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  • Barry Gibb The secret is to make sure your family comes before anything else, because no matter what you do you've got to come home.
    Barry Gibb
    British-American musician and singer-songwriter (1946 - )
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  • Carol P. Christ The simple act of telling a woman's story from a woman's point of view is a revolutionary act: it never has been done before.
    Carol P. Christ
    American feminist historian and author (1945 - )
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  • Barry Ritholtz The simple reality of life is that everyone is wrong on a regular basis. By confronting these inevitable errors, you allow yourself to make corrections before it is too late.
    Barry Ritholtz
    American author and newspaper columnist
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  • B. F. Skinner The speaker does not feel the grammatical rules he is said to apply in composing sentences, and men spoke grammatically for thousands of years before anyone knew there were rules.
    B. F. Skinner
    American psychologist, behaviorist and author (1904 - 1990)
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  • George Herbert Allen The street to obscurity is paved with athletes who can perform great feats before friendly crowds.
    George Herbert Allen
    American football coach (1918 - 1990)
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  • Roy L. Smith The successful man is the one who finds out what is the matter with his business before his competitors do.
    Roy L. Smith
    American clergyman and author
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  • Confucius The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his action.
    Confucius
    Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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  • Elbert Hubbard The teacher is one who makes two ideas grow where only one grew before.
    Elbert Hubbard
    American writer and publisher (1856 - 1915)
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  • G. Nathan The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.
    G. Nathan
     
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  • Anita Dunn The third lesson and tip actually comes from two of my favorite political philosophers: Mao Tse-tung and Mother Theresa - not often coupled with each other, but the two people I turn to most to basically deliver a simple point which is 'you're going to make choices; you're going to challenge; you're going to say why not; you're going to figure out how to do things that have never been done before.
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  • Benjamin Booker The time after college and before music was really rough. I couldn't afford food. I was eating bread and butter for five months. Living in New Orleans, I couldn't afford to take care of myself. I had no health insurance.
    Benjamin Booker
    American singer, songwriter and guitarist (1989 - )
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  • Jean Paul The timid are afraid before the danger, the cowardly while in danger, and the courageous after danger.
    Jean Paul
    German poet (ps. by Johann P.F. Richter) (1763 - 1825)
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  • Boo Weekley The tour life is real tough on a marriage. To the young guy who is just getting his PGA Tour card and is in a serious relationship, my advice is to wait three years before getting married.
    Boo Weekley
    American professional golfer (1973 - )
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  • Arthur Erickson The tourist transports his own values and demands to his destinations and implants them like an infectious disease, decimating whatever values existed before.
    Arthur Erickson
    Canadian architect and urban (1924 - 2009)
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  • Casey Stengel The trouble is not that players have sex the night before a game. It's that they stay out all night looking for it.
    Casey Stengel
    American basketbal player and manager (1890 - 1975)
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