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  • David Mitchell A book you finish reading is not the same book it was before you read it.
    Source: Number9Dream (2007) 365
    David Mitchell
    English novelist and screenwriter (1969 - )
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  • O. Henry A burglar who respects his art always takes his time before taking anything else.
    O. Henry
    American short story writer, pen name of William S. Porter (1862 - 1910)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes A child's education should begin at least one hundred years before he is born.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Samuel Johnson A continual feast of commendation is only to be obtained by merit or by wealth: many are therefore obliged to content themselves with single morsels, and recompense the infrequency of their enjoyment by excess and riot, whenever fortune sets the banquet before them.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Henry Waldorf Francis A court is a place where what was confused before becomes more unsettled than ever.
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  • Robert Benchley A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down.
    Robert Benchley
    American humorist, criticus (1889 - 1945)
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  • Earl Nightingale A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds; it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change.
    Earl Nightingale
    American radio speaker and author (1921 - 1989)
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  • Agnes Repplier A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally stopping before it gets there.
    Agnes Repplier
    American writer and social criticus (1855 - 1950)
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  • Frank Lloyd Wright A man is a fool if he drinks before he reaches the age of 50, and a fool if he doesn't afterward.
    Frank Lloyd Wright
    American architect (1867 - 1959)
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  • Aldous Huxley A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Miguel de Cervantes A man must eat a peck of salt with his friend, before he knows him.
    Miguel de Cervantes
    Spanish writer and poet (1547 - 1616)
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  • Seneca A man who suffers before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Georges Clemenceau A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action.. You must act as you breathe.
    Georges Clemenceau
    French physician and politician (1841 - 1929)
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  • William Booth A man's labor is not only his capital but his life. When it passes it returns never more. To utilize it, to prevent its wasteful squandering, to enable the poor man to bank it up for use hereafter, this surely is one of the most urgent tasks before civilization.
    William Booth
    English Methodist preacher (1829 - 1912)
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  • Fred A. Allen A molehill man is a pseudo-busy executive who comes to work at 9 am and finds a molehill on his desk. He has until 5 p.m. to make this molehill into a mountain. An accomplished molehill man will often have his mountain finished before lunch.
    Fred A. Allen
    American comic (1894 - 1956)
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  • Abdul Kalam A person with belief never grovels before anyone, whining and whimpering that it's all too much, that he lacks support, that he is being treated unfairly. Instead, such a person tackes problems head on and then affirms, 'As a child of God, I am greater than anything that can happen to me.
    Source: Wings of Fire
    Abdul Kalam
    11th President of India (1931 - 2015)
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  • Arthur Symons A realist, in Venice, would become a romantic by mere faithfulness to what he saw before him.
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  • Marilyn Monroe A smart girl leaves before she is left.
    Marilyn Monroe
    American actress (1926 - 1962)
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  • Bernard M. Baruch A speculator is a man who observes the future, and acts before it occurs.
    Bernard M. Baruch
    American investor, philanthropist, statesman, and political consultant (1870 - 1965)
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  • George Bernard Shaw A veteran journalist has never had time to think twice before he writes.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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