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  • Lord Chesterfield Buy good books, and read them; the best books are the commonest, and the last editions are always the best, if the editors are not blockheads.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Benjamin Franklin Buy what thou hast no need of and ere long thou shalt sell thy necessities.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Barbara Corcoran Buyers decide in the first eight seconds of seeing a home if they're interested in buying it. Get out of your car, walk in their shoes and see what they see within the first eight seconds.
    Barbara Corcoran
    American businesswoman, investor, speaker and consultant (1949 - )
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  • Burt Rutan By 1931, after a few years' experience of flying scheduled airlines, those planes were operating at roughly 600 times the safety of the space shuttle. I look at safety not in terms of fatalities per passenger-mile, but when you get in and close the door, what is the risk of dying on this flight?
    Burt Rutan
    American aerospace engineer and entrepreneur (1943 - )
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  • Barbara Demick By 2022, China is expected to cede the dubious distinction of being the world's most populous nation to India, according to the population division of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs.
    Barbara Demick
    American journalist
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  • Desiderius Erasmus By a Carpenter mankind was made, and only by that Carpenter can mankind be remade.
    Desiderius Erasmus
    Dutch humanist and philosopher (1469 - 1536)
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  • Barry Commoner By adopting the control strategy, the nation's environmental program has created a built-in antagonism between environmental quality and economic growth.
    Barry Commoner
    American cellular biologist, college professor, and politician (1917 - 2012)
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  • Socrates By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you will become a philosopher.
    Socrates
    Greek philosopher (469 - 399)
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  • Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh By and by... there are more and more gaps of silence. Through those gaps, windows will open to the divine.
    Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
    Indian godman and mystic (1931 - 1990)
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  • Buzz Osborne By and large musicians are pretty lazy; they don't do a whole lot. They're usually very busy doing nothing.
    Buzz Osborne
    American guitarist, vocalist and songwriter (1964 - )
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  • Anne Morrow Lindbergh By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class.
    Anne Morrow Lindbergh
    American Author (1906 - 2001)
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  • Henry David Thoreau By avarice and selfishness, and a groveling habit, from which none of us is free, of regarding the soil as property, or the means of acquiring property chiefly, the landscape is deformed, husbandry is degraded with us, and the farmer leads the meanest of lives. He knows Nature but as a robber.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Barry Schuler By being able to write a genome and plug it into an organism, the software, if you will, changes the hardware.
    Barry Schuler
     
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  • Friedrich Engels By bourgeoisie is meant the class of modern capitalists, owners of the means of social production and employers of wage labor. By proletariat, the class of modern wage laborers who, having no means of production of their own, are reduced to selling their labor power in order to live.
    Friedrich Engels
    German industrialist, philosopher and social scientist (1820 - 1895)
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  • Mark Twain By common consent of all the nations and all the ages the most valuable thing in this world is the homage of men, whether deserved or undeserved.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Ian Mcewan By concentrating on what is good in people, by appealing to their idealism and their sense of justice, and by asking them to put their faith in the future, socialists put themselves at a severe disadvantage.
    Ian Mcewan
    English novelist and screenwriter (1948 - )
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  • Robert Cialdini By concentrating our attention on the effect rather than the causes, we can avoid the laborious, nearly impossible task of trying to detect and deflect the many psychological influences on liking.
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  • Grenville Kleiser By constant self-discipline and self-control you can develop greatness of character.
    Grenville Kleiser
    Canadian-American author (1868 - 1935)
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  • Caroline Knapp By definition, memoir demands a certain degree of introspection and self-disclosure: In order to fully engage a reader, the narrator has to make herself known, has to allow her own self-awareness to inform the events she describes.
    Caroline Knapp
    American writer and columnist
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  • Bob Menendez By failing to keep their end of the bargain, the Bush administration would allow New Jersey projects to deteriorate and make New Jersey highways and bridges less safe.
    Bob Menendez
    American politician (1954 - )
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