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  • Henry David Thoreau Even the best things are not equal to their fame.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Janet Malcolm Every journalist who is not too stupid or too full of himself to notice what is going on knows that what he does is morally indefensible. He is a kind of confidence man, preying on people's vanity, ignorance, or loneliness, gaining their trust and betraying them without remorse.
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  • Benjamin E. Mays Every man and woman is born into the world to do something unique and something distinctive and if he or she does not do it, it will never be done.
    Benjamin E. Mays
    American Baptist minister and civil rights leader (1894 - 1984)
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  • Will Rogers Every time a woman leaves off something she looks better, but every time a man leaves off something he looks worse.
    Will Rogers
    American actor and humorist (1879 - 1935)
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  • Luigi Pirandello Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants does not live for the sake of living, without knowing how to live; but he lives so as to give a meaning and a value of his own to life.
    Luigi Pirandello
    Italian poet, playwright and Nobel laureate in literature (1934) (1867 - 1936)
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  • Carol Burnett Everybody I know who is funny, it's in them. You can teach timing, or some people are able to tell a joke, though I don't like to tell jokes. But I think you have to be born with a sense of humor and a sense of timing.
    Carol Burnett
    American actress, comedian, singer, and writer (1933 - )
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  • Italo Calvino Everything can change, but not the language that we carry inside us, like a world more exclusive and final than one's mother's womb.
    Italo Calvino
    Italian writer (1923 - 1985)
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  • Confucius Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.
    Confucius
    Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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  • François Fénelon Exactness and neatness in moderation is a virtue, but carried to extremes narrows the mind.
    François Fénelon
    French writer and archbishop (1651 - 1715)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche Extreme positions are not succeeded by moderate ones, but by contrary extreme positions.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Emily Dickinson Faith is a fine invention when Gentleman can see - but microscopes are prudent in an emergency
    Emily Dickinson
    American poet (1830 - 1886)
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  • Oswald Chambers Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time.
    Oswald Chambers
    Scottish preacher, writer (1874 - 1917)
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  • Mahatma Gandhi Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • Christian Nevell Bovee False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.
    Christian Nevell Bovee
    American writer
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  • Carolina Herrera Fashion has always been a repetition of ideas, but what makes it new is the way you put it together.
    Carolina Herrera
    Venezuelan fashion designer (1939 - )
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.
    Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
    Austrian writer (1830 - 1916)
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  • Samuel Johnson Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Emily Dickinson Finite to fail, but infinite to venture.
    Emily Dickinson
    American poet (1830 - 1886)
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