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  • Plutarch All men whilst they are awake are in one common world: but each of them, when he is asleep, is in a world of his own.
    Plutarch
    Greek biographer and essayist (46 - 120)
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  • Thomas Carlyle All men, if they work not as in the great taskmaster's eye, will work wrong, and work unhappily for themselves and for you.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Billy Bragg All musicians start out with ideals but hanging on to them in the face of media scrutiny takes real integrity. Tougher still is to live up to the ideals of your dedicated fans.
    Billy Bragg
    English singer-songwriter (1957 - )
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  • Ezra Pound All my life I believed I knew something. But then one strange day came when I realized that I knew nothing, yes, I knew nothing. And so words became void of meaning. I have arrived too late at ultimate uncertainty.
    Ezra Pound
    American poet (1885 - 1972)
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  • Billy Graham All my life I've been taught how to die, but no one ever taught me how to grow old.
    Billy Graham
    American Evangelist (1918 - 2018)
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  • Bobby Vinton All my songs were solo voices. Just me singing. In fact, that was the gimmick - no gimmick. Just singing straight with not too much background.
    Bobby Vinton
    American singer and songwriter (1935 - )
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  • Alexander Pope All nature is but art unknown to thee.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Carl Hiaasen All novels are about crime. You'd be hard pressed to find any novel that does not have an element of crime. I don't see myself as a crime novelist, but there are crimes in my books. That's the nature of storytelling, if you want to reflect the real world.
    Carl Hiaasen
    American writer, author and journalist (1953 - )
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  • Jim Rohn All of life is a risk; in fact we're not going to get out alive. Casualness leads to casualties. Communication is the ability to affect other people with words.
    Jim Rohn
    American entrepreneur, author and motivational speaker (1930 - 2009)
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  • Carl Sagan All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value.
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Denis Waitley All of the top achievers I know are life-long learners... Looking for new skills, insights, and ideas. If they're not learning, they're not growing... not moving toward excellence.
    Denis Waitley
    American motivational speaker, writer and consultant (1933 - )
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  • Sir Arthur Conan Doyle All other men are specialists, but his specialty is omniscience.
    Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
    British author (1859 - 1930)
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  • Vladimir Ilyich Lenin All our lives we fought against exalting the individual, against the elevation of the single person, and long ago we were over and done with the business of a hero, and here it comes up again: the glorification of one personality. This is not good at all. I am just like everybody else.
    Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
    Russian revolutionary leader (1870 - 1924)
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  • Toni Morrison All paradises, all utopias are designed by who is not there, by the people who are not allowed in.
    Toni Morrison
    American novelist, essayist, editor (1931 - 2019)
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  • Voltaire All people are equal, it is not birth, it is virtue alone that makes the difference.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • Ellen Key All philanthropy... is only a savory fumigation burning at the mouth of a sewer. This incense offering makes the air more endurable to passers-by, but it does not hinder the infection in the sewer from spreading.
    Ellen Key
    Zweeds writer (1849 - 1926)
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  • Samuel Butler All philosophies, if you ride them home, are nonsense, but some are greater nonsense than others.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Robert Collier All riches have their origin in mind. Wealth is in ideas - not money.
    Robert Collier
    American author
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  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.
    Samuel Taylor Coleridge
    English poet and critic (1772 - 1834)
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  • Vera Brittain All that a pacifist can undertake - but it is a very great deal - is to refuse to kill, injure or otherwise cause suffering to another human creature, and untiringly to order his life by the rule of love though others may be captured by hate.
    Vera Brittain
    English nurse, writer, feminist, and pacifist (1893 - 1970)
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