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  • Solomon Ibn Gabirol Plan for this world as if you expect to live forever; but plan for the hereafter as if you expect to die tomorrow.
    Solomon Ibn Gabirol
    Andalusian poet and Jewish philosopher (1021 - 1058)
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  • Ashleigh Brilliant Please don't ask me what the score is. I'm not even sure what the game is.
    Ashleigh Brilliant
    American author and cartoonist (1933 - )
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  • John Kenneth Galbraith Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.
    John Kenneth Galbraith
    American economist (1908 - 2006)
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  • Saul Alinsky Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.
    Saul Alinsky
    American community organizer and writer (1909 - 1972)
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  • Samuel Smiles Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. Precepts and instruction are useful so far as they go, but, without the discipline of real life, they remain of the nature of theory only.
    Samuel Smiles
    Scottish writer (1812 - 1904)
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  • John Keats Praise or blame has but a momentary effect on the man whose love of beauty in the abstract makes him a severe critic on his own works.
    John Keats
    English poet (1795 - 1821)
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  • Miguel de Cervantes Pray look better, Sir... those things yonder are no giants, but windmills.
    Miguel de Cervantes
    Spanish writer and poet (1547 - 1616)
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  • Samuel Johnson Prejudice not being funded on reason cannot be removed by argument.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Progress has not followed a straight ascending line, but a spiral with rhythms of progress and retrogression, of evolution and dissolution.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • George Orwell Progress is not an illusion, it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • George Santayana Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement: and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • Thomas L. Masson Prohibition may be a disputed theory, but none can say that it doesn't hold water.
    Thomas L. Masson
    American anthropologist, editor and author (1866 - 1934)
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  • H. A. L. Fisher Purity of race does not exist. Europe is a continent of energetic mongrels.
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  • Henry David Thoreau Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • O. S. Hawkins Real Christianity is lovely. There is a quality about a Spirit-filled, radiant Christian that draws and attracts others and causes them to ''enjoy favor with all the people.'' The truth is that the gospel is not nearly as offensive as some of its proponents!
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  • Roger Bacon Reasoning draws a conclusion, but does not make the conclusion certain, unless the mind discovers it by the path of experience.
    Roger Bacon
    English philosopher and Franciscan (1214 - 1294)
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  • Alex Noble Risk is essential. There is not growth of inspiration in staying within what is safe and comfortable. Once you find out what you do best, why not try something else?
    Alex Noble
    Australian athlete and motivational speaker
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  • Rod Serling Seeing is not always believing.
    Rod Serling
    American screenwriter, playwright, television producer, and narrator (1924 - 1975)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Self-denial is not a virtue, it is only the effect of prudence on rascality.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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