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  • Kurt Vonnegut If somebody says, ''I love you,'' to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol-holder requires? ''I love you, too. ''
    Kurt Vonnegut
    American writer (1922 - 2007)
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  • Anderson Cooper If someone knows me and likes me or my work, they're more likely to allow me to tell their story. But it also cuts the other way.
    Anderson Cooper
    American television journalist (1967 - )
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton If the barricades went up in our streets and the poor became masters, I think the priests would escape, I fear the gentlemen would; but I believe the gutters would simply be running with the blood of philanthropists.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Brad Feld If the crisis lasts moments, rapid action is critical. But if it's simply the beginning of a broader issue, especially one where the root cause isn't known yet, the worst thing a leader can do is act immediately.
    Brad Feld
    American entrepreneur, and author
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  • Brit Hume If the markets had behaved badly, that would obviously add to people's sense of alarm... but there has been a lot of reassurance coming, particularly in the way the Brits handled all this. There seems to be no great fear that something like that is going to happen here.
    Brit Hume
    American journalist and political commentator (1943 - )
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  • Charles Darwin If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.
    Charles Darwin
    English scientist and biologist (1809 - 1882)
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  • Kahlil Gibran If the other person injures you, you may forget the injury; but if you injure him you will always remember.
    Kahlil Gibran
    Libian painter and writer (1883 - 1931)
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  • Bill Hybels If the request is wrong, God says, No. If the timing is wrong, God says, Slow. If you are wrong, God says, Grow. But if the request is right, the timing is right and you are right, God says, Go!
    Too Busy Not to Pray
    Bill Hybels
    American church figure and author (1951 - )
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  • Remy de Gourmont If the secret of being a bore is to tell all, the secret of pleasing is to say just enough to be - not understood, but divined.
    Remy de Gourmont
    French writer, poet and philosopher (1858 - 1915)
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  • Carter G. Woodson If the white man wants to hold on to it, let him do so; but the Negro, so far as he is able, should develop and carry out a program of his own.
    Carter G. Woodson
    American historian, author and journalist (1875 - 1950)
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  • Adam Walinsky If there are twelve clowns in a ring, you can jump in the middle and start reciting Shakespeare, but to the audience, you'll just be the thirteenth clown.
    Adam Walinsky
    American Lawyer, Speechwriter (1937 - )
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  • Toni Morrison If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.
    Toni Morrison
    American novelist, essayist, editor (1931 - 2019)
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  • Carole King If there's any answer, maybe love can end the madness
    Maybe not, oh, but we can only try.
    Tapestry (1971)
    Carole King
    American singer-songwriter (1942 - )
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  • Bhumibol Adulyadej If they want to criticize me, I don't care; I don't mind. But they must criticize me fairly. Usually, the criticism is not fair. Or the praise, even the praise sometimes is not fair.
    Bhumibol Adulyadej
    Thai King (1927 - 2016)
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  • Abraham Lincoln If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Francis Quarles If thou desire the love of God and man, be humble, for the proud heart, as it loves none but itself, is beloved of none but itself. Humility enforces where neither virtue, nor strength, nor reason can prevail.
    Francis Quarles
    British poet (1592 - 1644)
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  • Epicurus If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.
    Epicurus
    Greek Philosopher (341 - 270)
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  • Umberto Eco If two things don't fit, but you believe both of them, thinking that somewhere, hidden, there must be a third thing that connects them, that's credulity.
    De slinger van Foucault (2007) 60
    Umberto Eco
    Italian writer and critic (1932 - 2016)
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  • Algernon Sidney If vice and corruption prevail, liberty cannot subsist; but if virtue have the advantage, arbitrary power cannot be established.
    Algernon Sidney
    English politician (1623 - 1683)
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  • Henry Miller If we are always arriving and departing, it is also true that we are eternally anchored. One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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