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  • Thomas Carlyle No person was every rightly understood until they had been first regarded with a certain feeling, not of tolerance, but of sympathy.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • John Ruskin No person who is not a great sculptor or painter can be an architect. If he is not a painter or sculptor, he can only be a builder.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Arthur Erickson No phenomenon can be isolated, but has repercussions through every aspect of our lives. We are learning that we are a fundamental part of nature's ecosystems.
    Arthur Erickson
    Canadian architect and urban (1924 - 2009)
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  • W. H. Auden No poet or novelist wishes he were the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were the only one alive, and quite a number fondly believe their wish has been granted.
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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  • Cal Thomas No power on earth is greater than a mind and soul reawakened. Our Constitution begins 'we the people', not 'us the government'.
    Cal Thomas
    American columnist and author (1942 - )
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  • Anton Chekhov No psychologist should pretend to understand what he does not understand... Only fools and charlatans know everything and understand nothing.
    Anton Chekhov
    Russian playwright and short story writer
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  • Alfred Lord Tennyson No rock so hard but that a little wave may beat admission in a thousand years.
    Alfred Lord Tennyson
    English poet (1809 - 1892)
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  • Bruce Barton No sex, age, or condition is above or below the absolute necessity of modesty; but without it one vastly beneath the rank of man.
    Bruce Barton
    American Author, Advertising Executive (1886 - 1967)
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  • Woodrow Wilson No student knows his subject: the most he knows is where and how to find out the things he does not know.
    Woodrow Wilson
    American president (1856 - 1924)
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  • André Gide No theory is good unless it permits, not rest, but the greatest work. No theory is good except on condition that one use it to go on beyond.
    André Gide
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1947) (1869 - 1951)
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  • Edgar Sheffield Brightman No totalitarians, no wars, no fears, famines or perils of any kind can really break a man's spirit until he breaks it himself by surrendering. Tyranny has many dread powers, but not the power to rule the spirit.
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  • Samuel Johnson No two men can be half an hour together but one shall acquire an evident superiority over the other.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Bob Riley No two wars are ever the same. Some are just, some are unjust, but the basic commonality shared between them all is that young men and women heeded a call to service, overcame their fear, and fought for their side.
    Bob Riley
    American politician (1944 - )
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  • Sir John Robert Seeley No virtue is safe that is not enthusiastic.
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  • Margaret Sanger No woman can call herself free who does not own and control her body. No woman can call herself free until she can choose consciously whether she will or will not be a mother.
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  • Alexander Pope No woman ever hates a man for being in love with her, but many a woman hate a man for being a friend to her.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Bill Clinton No wonder Americans hate politics when, year in and year out, they hear politicians make promises that won't come true because they don't even mean them - campaign fantasies that win elections but don't get nations moving again.
    Detroit Economic Club, August 21, 1992
    Bill Clinton
    President of the US (1946 - )
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  • Oscar Wilde No work of art ever puts forward views. Views belong to people who are not artists.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • T. S. Eliot No! I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be: am an attendant lord, one that will do to swell a progress, start a scene or two, advise the prince.
    T. S. Eliot
    British essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic (1888 - 1965)
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