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  • Robert Townsend Many ideas are good for a limited time - not forever.
    Robert Townsend
    American businessman
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  • Alexander Dubcek Many legitimate forms of ownership, mainly cooperative and communal, had not been used to any effective extent mainly because of the imposition of Stalinist restrictions.
    Alexander Dubcek
    Czechoslovak and Slovak politician (1921 - 1992)
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  • Henry David Thoreau Many men go fishing their entire lives without knowing it is not fish they are after.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Billy Porter Many movie stars or American Idol contestants sort of fall into theater... and say, 'Oh, yeah, I would love to do theater.' And then they get here and say, 'Oh, wait a minute, this actually is a craft!' It's not just show up one day and do it. It's show up eight times a week, twice on Wednesdays and twice on Saturdays.
    Billy Porter
    American actor and singer (1969 - )
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  • Thomas Alva Edison Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
    Thomas Alva Edison
    American inventor and founder of General Electric (1847 - 1931)
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  • Bil Keane Many of my cartoons are not a belly laugh. I go for nostalgia, the lump in the throat, the tear in the eye, the tug in the heart.
    Bil Keane
    American cartoonist (1922 - 2011)
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  • Kazuo Ishiguro Many of our deepest motives come, not from an adult logic of how things work in the world, but out of something that is frozen from childhood.
    Kazuo Ishiguro
    English novelist and screenwriter (1954 - )
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  • B. C. Forbes Many of the most successful men I have known have never grown up. They have retained bubbling-over boyishness. They have relished wit, they have indulged in humor. They have not allowed dignity to depress them into moroseness. Youthfulnesss of spirit is the twin brother of optimism, and optimism is the stuff of which American business success is fashioned. Resist growing up!
    B. C. Forbes
    American Publisher (1880 - 1954)
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  • Henry David Thoreau Many of the phenomena of Winter are suggestive of an inexpressible tenderness and fragile delicacy. We are accustomed to hear this king described as a rude and boisterous tyrant; but with the gentleness of a lover he adorns the tresses of Summer.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Mignon McLaughlin Many of us go through life feeling as an actor might feel who does not like his part, and does not believe in the play.
    The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981)
    Mignon McLaughlin
    American writer, editor (1913 - 1983)
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  • Bryant H. McGill Many openly show discontentment with their looks, but few with their intelligence. I, however, assure you there are many more plain minds than faces.
    Bryant H. McGill
    American journalist and author (1969 - )
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  • Bhumibol Adulyadej Many other countries in this world are in a difficult situation, and all the Thai people are probably worried about the fate of Thailand: whether the country would survive or not.
    Bhumibol Adulyadej
    Thai King (1927 - 2016)
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  • Alexander Pope Many people are capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Vance Havner Many people are in a rut and a rut is nothing but a grave - with both ends kicked out.
    Vance Havner
    American writer
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  • Carl Safina Many people believe the whole catastrophe is the oil we spill, but that gets diluted and eventually disarmed over time. In fact, the oil we don't spill, the oil we collect, refine and use, produces CO2 and other gases that don't get diluted.
    Carl Safina
    American ecologist and author (1955 - )
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  • Earl Warren Many people consider the things government does for them to be social progress, but they consider the things government does for others as socialism.
    Earl Warren
    American jurist and politician (1891 - 1974)
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  • Stephen Hawking Many people find the universe confusing - it's not.
    Stephen Hawking
    English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, author and Director (1942 - 2018)
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  • George Halas Many people flounder about in life because they do not have a purpose, an objective toward which to work.
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  • Helen Keller Many people have the wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
    Helen Keller
    American writer (1880 - 1968)
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  • Bob Weinstein Many people have vied to become the third Weinstein brother, and I'm not sure why, but that distinction only goes to one person - Quentin Tarantino.
    Bob Weinstein
    American film producer (1954 - )
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