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  • Ovid I attempt an arduous task; but there is no worth in that which is not a difficult achievement.
    Ovid
    Roman poet (43 - 17)
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  • Jimmy Dean I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.
    Jimmy Dean
    American country music singer, actor, and businessman (1928 - 2010)
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  • Machiavelli I consider it a mark of great prudence in a man to abstain from threats or any contemptuous expressions, for neither of these weaken the enemy, but threats make him more cautious, and the other excites his hatred, and a desire to revenge himself.
    Machiavelli
    Florentine state philosopher (1469 - 1527)
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  • Adrian Edmondson I don't claim that our TV comedies are highbrow in anyway, but I think there's a basis to them, and that's why they're more popular than other TV comedies. There's a basis of truth in them, a gut feeling.
    Adrian Edmondson
    British actor (1957 - )
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  • Joseph De Maistre I don't know what a scoundrel is like, but I know what a respectable man is like, and it's enough to make one's flesh creep.
    Joseph De Maistre
    French diplomat and philosopher (1753 - 1821)
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  • William Shakespeare I have had a most rare vision. I have had a dream past the wit of man to say what dream it was. Man is but an ass if he go about to expound this dream.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Joseph Addison I have somewhere met with the epitaph on a charitable man which has pleased me very much. I cannot recollect the words, but here is the sense of it: ''What I spent I lost; what I possessed is left to others; what I gave away remains with me.''
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Marilyn Monroe I know I will never be happy, but I know I can be gay!
    Marilyn Monroe
    American actress (1926 - 1962)
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  • Katherine Mansfield I must say I hate money but it's the lack of it I hate most.
    Katherine Mansfield
    New Zealand-born British Author (1888 - 1923)
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  • Robert Orben I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home.
    Robert Orben
    American editor, writer, humorist (1927 - 2023)
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  • Iris Murdoch I think being a woman is like being Irish. Everyone says you're important and nice, but you take second place all the same.
    Iris Murdoch
    Anglo-Irish novelist and philosopher (1919 - 1999)
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  • Harold S. Geneen I think it is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises - but only performance is reality.
    Harold S. Geneen
    American Accountant, Industrialist, CEO, ITT (1910 - 1997)
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  • Bill Bailey I tried to like it. For me, it was like being smacked around the head by a piece of IKEA furniture: it hurts, but you've got to admire the workmanship.
    Remarkable Guide to the Orchestra
    Bill Bailey
    English comedian, musician and actor (1965 - )
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  • Thomas Traherne I will not by the noise of bloody wars and the dethroning of kings advance you to glory: but by the gentle ways of peace and love.
    Thomas Traherne
    British Clergyman, Poet, Mystic (1636 - 1674)
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  • David Gemmell I would have offered you a forest of truth, but you wish to speak of a single leaf.
    Lord of the Silver Bow (2005)
    David Gemmell
    British author of heroic fantasy (1948 - 2006)
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  • Joe E. Lewis I would take a bomb, but I can't stand the noise.
    Joe E. Lewis
    American writer
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  • George Orwell I'm fat, but I'm thin inside... there's a thin man inside every fat man.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Stephen Hawking I'm not afraid of death, but I'm in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first.
    Stephen Hawking
    English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, author and Director (1942 - 2018)
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  • Mary Decker Slaney I've always got such high expectations for myself. I'm aware of them, but I can't relax them.
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  • Barack Obama I've got two daughters. 9 years old and 6 years old. I am going to teach them first of all about values and morals. But if they make a mistake, I don't want them punished with a baby.
    Town Hall Meeting in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, 29 March 2008
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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