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  • James Allen For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?
    James Allen
    British philosophical writer (1864 - 1912)
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne For truly it is to be noted, that children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Joseph Rudyard Kipling For undemocratic reasons and for motives not of State, they arrive at their conclusions - largely inarticulate. Being void of self-expression they confide their views to none; but sometimes in a smoking room, one learns why things were done.
    Joseph Rudyard Kipling
    English writer (1865 - 1936)
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  • Lawrence Durrell For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in daily life; in this way, not to evade destiny, as the ordinary people try to do, but to fulfil it in its true potential, the imagination.
    Lawrence Durrell
    British Author (1912 - 1990)
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  • Alexander Dubcek For us she is not the iron lady. She is the kind, dear Mrs. Thatcher.
    Alexander Dubcek
    Czechoslovak and Slovak politician (1921 - 1992)
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  • Bob Iger For us to grow globally, it's not enough to just be an exporter. We have to be a creator.
    Bob Iger
    American business executive (1951 - )
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  • Boutros Boutros-Ghali For us, genocide was the gas chamber - what happened in Germany. We were not able to realize that with the machete you can create a genocide.
    Boutros Boutros-Ghali
    Egyptian politician and diplomat (1922 - 2016)
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  • William Shakespeare For we which now behold these present days have eyes to wonder, but lack tongues to praise.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Jane Austen For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn?
    Jane Austen
    English writer (1775 - 1817)
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  • Thornton Wilder For what human ill does dawn not seem to be alternative?
    Thornton Wilder
    American writer and playwright (1897 - 1975)
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  • Robert Penn Warren For what is a poem, but a hazardous attempt at self-understanding. It is the deepest part of autobiography.
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  • Kahlil Gibran For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun? And what is it to cease breathing but to free the breath from its restless tides, that it may rise and expand and seek God unencumbered?
    Kahlil Gibran
    Libian painter and writer (1883 - 1931)
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  • Alighieri Dante For what is liberty but the unhampered translation of will into act?
    Alighieri Dante
    Durante (Dante) degli Alighieri, Italian philosopher and poet (1265 - 1321)
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  • Billy Joel For whatever reason, not all people are born with the particular gift of being able to express ourselves through music. And, believe me, it is a gift.
    Billy Joel
    American singer-songwriter and pianist (1949 - )
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  • Simone Weil For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no separation.
    Simone Weil
    French philosopher (1909 - 1943)
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  • John F. Kennedy For without belittling the courage with which men have died, we should not forget those acts of courage with which men have lived.
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • Audre Lorde For women, the need and desire to nurture each other is not pathological but redemptive, and it is within that knowledge that our real power is rediscovered. It is this real connection, which is so feared by a patriarchal world.
    Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (2012) 111
    Audre Lorde
    American writer, feminist, womanist, librarian, and civil (1934 - 1992)
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  • Bonnie Langford For years I used to try to straighten my hair, but I've reached a stage where I think, 'I've got red curly hair, and it's actually really great.'
    Bonnie Langford
    English actress, dancer and singer (1964 - )
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  • Rita Mae Brown For you to be successful, sacrifices must be made. It's better that they are made by others but failing that, you'll have to make them yourself.
    Rita Mae Brown
    American writer, activist, and feminist (1944 - )
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  • Edgar Cayce For, he that expects nothing shall not be disappointed, but he that expects much - if he lives and uses that in hand day by day - shall be full to running over.
    Edgar Cayce
    American clairvoyant (1877 - 1945)
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