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  • Maya Angelou I find it interesting that the meanest life, the poorest existence, is attributed to God's will, but as human beings become more affluent, as their living standard and style begin to ascend the material scale, God descends the scale of responsibility at a commensurate speed.
    Maya Angelou
    African-American poet and writer (1928 - 2014)
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  • Thomas Alva Edison I 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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  • Andre Breton I have always been amazed at the way an ordinary observer lends so much more credence and attaches so much more importance to waking events than to those occurring in dreams... Man... is above all the plaything of his memory.
    Andre Breton
    French writer (1896 - 1966)
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  • Antoine de Saint-Exupéry I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    French writer (1900 - 1944)
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  • Alexis de Tocqueville I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America.
    Alexis de Tocqueville
    French aristocrat, political philosopher and sociologist (1805 - 1859)
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  • Helen Keller I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.
    Helen Keller
    American writer (1880 - 1968)
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  • Bruno Tonioli I love reading. I'm very much into history, novels, biographies and I have a wide range of thrillers.
    Bruno Tonioli
    Italian choreographer and dancer (1955 - )
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  • Arthur Rock I mean I wasn't a founder in the sense that I contributed anything scientifically but in the sense that I signed the corporation papers and, and owned founder's stock.
    Arthur Rock
    American businessman and investor (1926 - )
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  • Edgar Allan Poe I never can hear a crowd of people singing and gesticulating, all together, at an Italian opera, without fancying myself at Athens, listening to that particular tragedy, by Sophocles, in which he introduces a full chorus of turkeys, who set about bewailing the death of Meleager.
    Edgar Allan Poe
    American poet, writer and critic (1809 - 1849)
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  • Andy Rooney I obviously have a knack for getting on paper what a lot of people have thought and didn't realize they thought. And they say, 'Hey, yeah!' And they like that.
    Andy Rooney
    American radio and television writer (1919 - 2011)
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  • Ronald Reagan I recently learned something quite interesting about video games. Many young people have developed incredible hand, eye, and brain coordination in playing these games. The air force believes these kids will be our outstanding pilots should they fly our jets.
    Ronald Reagan
    American politician and actor (1911 - 2004)
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  • John F. Kennedy I see little of more importance to the future of our country and of civilization than full recognition of the place of the artist. If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • Ad Reinhardt I taught a lot of art history, especially Chinese, Japanese, and Indian. But the painting classes came back. The nudes came back. Not so much the still lifes. So now our department is the worst department, partly because it has the worst facilities.
    Ad Reinhardt
    American abstract painter (1913 - 1967)
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  • Anne Sullivan I think that there are some teachers that do a very good job of incorporating culture and history. And there are some teachers who could use a little more help in that area.
    Anne Sullivan
    American teacher (1866 - 1936)
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  • Pablo Picasso I who have been involved with all styles of painting can assure you that the only things that fluctuate are the waves of fashion which carry the snobs and speculators; the number of true connoisseurs remains more or less the same.
    Pablo Picasso
    Spanish painter, draftsman and sculptor (1881 - 1973)
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  • Beau Bridges I've always been interested in the history of the West, our country and particularly as it relates to the Native Americans - the original Americans.
    Beau Bridges
    American actor and director (1941 - )
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  • Epictetus If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.
    Epictetus
    Roman philosopher (50 - 130)
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  • Oliver Goldsmith If frugality were established in the state, and if our expenses were laid out to meet needs rather than superfluities of life, there might be fewer wants, and even fewer pleasures, but infinitely more happiness.
    Oliver Goldsmith
    Irish writer and poet (1728 - 1774)
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  • Pablo Picasso If I spit, they will take my spit and frame it as great art.
    Pablo Picasso
    Spanish painter, draftsman and sculptor (1881 - 1973)
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  • Brad Schneider If I wasn't serving in Congress, I've always wanted to be a high school teacher. Specifically, I want to teach a course on modern American history and use Garry Trudeau's Doonesbury as a primary text.
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