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  • Confucius I am not concerned that I am not known, I seek to be worthy to be known.
    Confucius
    Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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  • Buddha I am not the first Buddha who came upon Earth, nor shall I be the last. In due time, another Buddha will arise in the world - a Holy One, a supremely enlightened One, endowed with wisdom in conduct, auspicious, knowing the universe, an incomparable leader of men, a master of angels and mortals.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • Henry David Thoreau I am sorry to think that you do not get a man's most effective criticism until you provoke him. Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • John Barrymore I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for wisdom.
    John Barrymore
    American actor (1882 - 1942)
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  • Ovid I attempt an arduous task; but there is no worth in that which is not a difficult achievement.
    Ovid
    Roman poet (43 - 17)
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  • Arthur Christopher Benson I believe in instinct, not in reason. When reason is right, nine times out of ten it is impotent, and when it prevails, nine times out of ten it is wrong.
    Arthur Christopher Benson
    English essayist, poet, author and academic (1862 - 1925)
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  • Elie Wiesel I believe that all the survivors are mad. One time or another their madness will explode. You cannot absorb that much madness and not be influenced by it. That is why the children of survivors are so tragic. I see them in school. They don't know how
    Elie Wiesel
    Rumanian-born American Writer (1928 - 2016)
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  • William Faulkner I believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail.
    William Faulkner
    American writer (1897 - 1962)
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  • Jimmy Dean I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.
    Jimmy Dean
    American country music singer, actor, and businessman (1928 - 2010)
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  • Machiavelli I consider it a mark of great prudence in a man to abstain from threats or any contemptuous expressions, for neither of these weaken the enemy, but threats make him more cautious, and the other excites his hatred, and a desire to revenge himself.
    Machiavelli
    Florentine state philosopher (1469 - 1527)
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  • Thomas Carlyle I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Henry David Thoreau I do not know how to distinguish between our waking life and a dream. Are we not always living the life that we imagine we are?
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Adrian Edmondson I don't claim that our TV comedies are highbrow in anyway, but I think there's a basis to them, and that's why they're more popular than other TV comedies. There's a basis of truth in them, a gut feeling.
    Adrian Edmondson
    British actor (1957 - )
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  • Joseph De Maistre I don't know what a scoundrel is like, but I know what a respectable man is like, and it's enough to make one's flesh creep.
    Joseph De Maistre
    French diplomat and philosopher (1753 - 1821)
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  • William Shakespeare I have had a most rare vision. I have had a dream past the wit of man to say what dream it was. Man is but an ass if he go about to expound this dream.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Igor Stravinsky I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.
    Igor Stravinsky
    Russian composer (1882 - 1971)
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  • Joseph Addison I have somewhere met with the epitaph on a charitable man which has pleased me very much. I cannot recollect the words, but here is the sense of it: ''What I spent I lost; what I possessed is left to others; what I gave away remains with me.''
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Alfred N. Whitehead I have suffered a great deal from writers who have quoted this or that sentence of mine either out of its context or in juxtaposition to some incongruous matter which quite distorted my meaning, or destroyed it altogether.
    Alfred N. Whitehead
    English philosopher and mathematician (1861 - 1947)
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  • Marilyn Monroe I know I will never be happy, but I know I can be gay!
    Marilyn Monroe
    American actress (1926 - 1962)
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  • Katherine Mansfield I must say I hate money but it's the lack of it I hate most.
    Katherine Mansfield
    New Zealand-born British Author (1888 - 1923)
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