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  • Augustus Baldwin Longstreet It is said that a hundred gamecocks will live in perfect harmony together it you do not put a hen with them; and so it would have been with Billy and Bob, had there been no women in the world.
    Augustus Baldwin Longstreet
    American lawyer, minister, educator, and humorist (1790 - 1870)
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  • Bipasha Basu It is said that anyone who does commercial cinema is not acting, and anyone who does an art film is acting. I don't believe it. I feel whenever you are doing a film, you are acting. So you need to be applauded for that. I won't do art house cinemas. I want to make commercial films. I want my films to make money.
    Bipasha Basu
    Indian film actress and model (1979 - )
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  • George F. Will It is said that God gave us memory so we could have roses in winter. But it is also true that without memory we could not have self in any season. The more memories you have, the more you have. That is why, as Swift said, ''No wise man ever wished to be younger.''
    George F. Will
    American columnist (1941 - )
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  • Bruce Fairchild Barton It is said that great leaders are born, not made. The saying is true to this degree, that no man can persuade people to do what he wants them to do, unless he genuinely likes people, and believes that what he wants them to do is to their own advantage.
    The Man Nobody Knows (1924) Ch. 4 : His Method
    Bruce Fairchild Barton
    American author, advertising executive, and politician (1886 - 1967)
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  • Charles Haddon Spurgeon It is said that if Noah's ark had to be built by a company; they would not have laid the keel yet; and it may be so. What is many men's business is nobody's business. The greatest things are accomplished by individual men.
    Charles Haddon Spurgeon
    English Baptist preacher (1834 - 1892)
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  • George Mcgovern It is simply untrue that all our institutions are evil that all politicians are mere opportunists, that all aspects of university life are corrupt. Having discovered an illness, it's not terribly useful to prescribe death as a cure.
    George Mcgovern
    American historian, author (1922 - 2012)
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  • Arthur Eddington It is sound judgment to hope that in the not too distant future we shall be competent to understand so simple a thing as a star.
    Arthur Eddington
    English astronomer, physicist, and mathematician (1882 - 1944)
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  • Allen Klein It is still not clear from this study how laughter can directly help the heart but other studies have shown that laughter is beneficial for every system in the body.
    Allen Klein
    American businessman, music publisher (1931 - 2009)
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  • René Daumal It is still not enough for language to have clarity and content... it must also have a goal and an imperative. Otherwise from language we descend to chatter, from chatter to babble and from babble to confusion.
    René Daumal
    French writer, philosopher and poet (1908 - 1944)
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  • Blaise Pascal It is superstitious to put one's hopes in formalities, but arrogant to refuse to submit to them.
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Samuel Butler It is tact that is golden, not silence.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Alexander Hamilton It is the advertiser who provides the paper for the subscriber. It is not to be disputed, that the publisher of a newspaper in this country, without a very exhaustive advertising support, would receive less reward for his labor than the humblest mechanic.
    Alexander Hamilton
    American statesman (1757 - 1804)
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  • Charles Caleb Colton It is the briefest yet wisest maxim which tells us to ''meddle not''.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Napoleon It is the cause, not the death that makes the martyr.
    Napoleon
    French Emperor (1769 - 1821)
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  • Oscar Wilde It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Pierre Corneille It is the crime not the scaffold which is the disgrace.
    Pierre Corneille
    French playwright (1606 - 1684)
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  • Thomas Troward It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration.
    Thomas Troward
    English author (1847 - 1916)
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  • Robert Herrick It is the end that crowns us, not the fight.
    Robert Herrick
    English lyric poet and cleric (1591 - 1674)
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  • Bram Stoker It is the eve of St. George's Day. Do you not know that tonight, when the clock strikes midnight, all the evil things in the world will have full sway?
    Dracula
    Bram Stoker
    Irish author (1847 - 1912)
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  • Seneca It is the failing of youth not to be able to restrain its own violence.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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