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  • Andrew Motion Each sudden gust of light explains itself as flames, but neither they, nor even bombs redoubled on the hills tonight can quite include me in their fear.
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  • Mahatma Gandhi Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • Jean Giraudoux Education makes us more stupid than the brutes. A thousand voices call to us on every hand, but our ears are stopped with wisdom.
    Jean Giraudoux
    French writer (1882 - 1944)
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  • Will Rogers Every time a woman leaves off something she looks better, but every time a man leaves off something he looks worse.
    Will Rogers
    American actor and humorist (1879 - 1935)
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  • Luigi Pirandello Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants does not live for the sake of living, without knowing how to live; but he lives so as to give a meaning and a value of his own to life.
    Luigi Pirandello
    Italian poet, playwright and Nobel laureate in literature (1934) (1867 - 1936)
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  • Carol Burnett Everybody I know who is funny, it's in them. You can teach timing, or some people are able to tell a joke, though I don't like to tell jokes. But I think you have to be born with a sense of humor and a sense of timing.
    Carol Burnett
    American actress, comedian, singer, and writer (1933 - )
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  • Italo Calvino Everything can change, but not the language that we carry inside us, like a world more exclusive and final than one's mother's womb.
    Italo Calvino
    Italian writer (1923 - 1985)
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  • Confucius Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.
    Confucius
    Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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  • François Fénelon Exactness and neatness in moderation is a virtue, but carried to extremes narrows the mind.
    François Fénelon
    French writer and archbishop (1651 - 1715)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche Extreme positions are not succeeded by moderate ones, but by contrary extreme positions.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Emily Dickinson Faith is a fine invention when Gentleman can see - but microscopes are prudent in an emergency
    Emily Dickinson
    American poet (1830 - 1886)
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  • Christian Nevell Bovee False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.
    Christian Nevell Bovee
    American writer
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  • Carolina Herrera Fashion has always been a repetition of ideas, but what makes it new is the way you put it together.
    Carolina Herrera
    Venezuelan fashion designer (1939 - )
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  • Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.
    Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
    Austrian writer (1830 - 1916)
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  • Samuel Johnson Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Emily Dickinson Finite to fail, but infinite to venture.
    Emily Dickinson
    American poet (1830 - 1886)
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  • John Burroughs For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice - no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.
    John Burroughs
    American writer (1837 - 1921)
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  • Baruch Spinoza For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from the force of character.
    Tractatus Politicus
    Baruch Spinoza
    Dutch philosopher (1632 - 1677)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Freedom consists not in refusing to recognize anything above us, but in respecting something which is above us; for by respecting it, we raise ourselves to it, and, by our very acknowledgment, prove that we bear within ourselves what is higher, and are worthy to be on a level with it
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Thomas Jefferson Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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