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  • Barbara Jordan Earlier today we heard the beginning of the Preamble to the Constitution of the United States. 'We the people.' It is a very eloquent beginning. But, when that document was completed on the 17th of September in 1787, I was not included in that 'We, the people.' I felt somehow for many years that George Washington and Alexander Hamilton just left me out by mistake. But, through the process of amendment, interpretation, and court decision, I have finally been included in 'We, t
    Statement before House Judiciary Committee considering impeachment of Richard Nixon, 25 July 1974
    Barbara Jordan
    American lawyer, educator and politician (1936 - 1996)
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  • Ajay Devgan Earlier, I used to charge territories instead of my fees as an actor, but I realised it was better to keep the two apart. Now, I take my fees in cash, for acting, and keep the distribution thing separate.
    Ajay Devgan
    Indian film actor and director (1969 - )
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  • Alberto Salazar Early in my career I was accused of being overconfident and even cocky, but I really was confident that I had done the training and didn't see any other reason to say otherwise.
    Alberto Salazar
    American track coach and long-distance runner (1958 - )
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  • Oswald Chambers Earnestness is not by any means everything; it is very often a subtle form of pious pride because it is obsessed with the method and not with the Master.
    Oswald Chambers
    Scottish preacher, writer (1874 - 1917)
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  • Benjamin Franklin Eat to please thyself, but dress to please others.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Logan Pearsall Smith Eat with the rich, but go to the play with the poor, who are capable to joy.
    Logan Pearsall Smith
    English writer (1865 - 1946)
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  • Elsa Schiaparelli Eating is not merely a material pleasure. Eating well gives a spectacular joy to life and contributes immensely to goodwill and happy companionship. It is of great importance to the morale.
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  • Barbara W. Tuchman Economic man and sensual man are not suppressible.
    A Distant Mirror
    Barbara W. Tuchman
    American historian (1912 - 1989)
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  • Ben Bernanke Economics has many substantive areas of knowledge where there is agreement, but also contains areas of controversy. That's inescapable.
    Ben Bernanke
    American economist (1953 - )
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  • Charles Haddon Spurgeon Economy is half the battle of life. It is not so hard to earn money as to spend it well.
    Charles Haddon Spurgeon
    English Baptist preacher (1834 - 1892)
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  • Orson Welles Ecstasy is not really part of the scene we can do on celluloid.
    Orson Welles
    American film maker (1915 - 1985)
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  • Agnes Repplier Edged tools are dangerous things to handle, and not infrequently do much hurt.
    Agnes Repplier
    American writer and social criticus (1855 - 1950)
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  • Napoleon Hill Edison failed 10, 000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times.
    Napoleon Hill
    American self-help author (1883 - 1970)
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  • Napoleon Hill Edison failed 10,000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times.
    Napoleon Hill
    American self-help author (1883 - 1970)
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  • Arthur Wellesley Duke of Wellington Educate people without religion and you make them but clever devils.
    Arthur Wellesley Duke of Wellington
    Irish military leader and statesman, defeated Napoleon (1769 - 1852)
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  • Camille Paglia Education has become a prisoner of contemporaneity. It is the past, not the dizzy present, that is the best door to the future.
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Campbell Brown Education has not traditionally been a large concern in presidential elections, presumably because the president does not run schools.
    Campbell Brown
    American journalist (1968 - )
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  • George Macaulay Trevelyan Education has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
    George Macaulay Trevelyan
    British historian and academic (1876 - 1962)
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  • Karl Kraus Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots.
    Karl Kraus
    Austrian writer and journalist (1874 - 1936)
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  • John Dewey Education is a social process. Education is growth. Education is, not a preparation for life; education is life itself.
    John Dewey
    American philosopher (1859 - 1952)
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