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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • B. R. Ambedkar One can quite understand vegetarianism. One can quite understand meat-eating. But it is difficult to understand why a person who is a flesh-eater should object to one kind of flesh, namely cow's flesh. This is an anomaly which call for explanation.
    B. R. Ambedkar
    Indian jurist, economist and politician (1891 - 1956)
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  • Confucius Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
    Confucius
    Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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  • Thomas Jefferson Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Laurence Sterne Our passion and principals are constantly in a frenzy, but begin to shift and waver, as we return to reason.
    Laurence Sterne
    British author (1713 - 1768)
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  • Joseph Addison Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Valerie Solanas Our society is not a community, but merely a collection of isolated family units.
    Valerie Solanas
    American feminist and author (1936 - 1988)
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  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    French writer and philosopher (1712 - 1778)
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  • Anna Quindlen People always blame the girl; she should have said no. A monosyllable, but conventional wisdom has always been that boys can't manage it.
    Anna Quindlen
    American author and journalist (1952 - )
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  • Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add but when there is no longer anything to take away, when a body has been stripped down to its nakedness.
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    French writer (1900 - 1944)
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  • Eleanor Roosevelt Perhaps in His wisdom the Almighty is trying to show us that a leader may chart the way, may point out the road to lasting peace, but that many leaders and many peoples must do the building.
    Eleanor Roosevelt
    American "First Lady" and columnist (1884 - 1962)
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  • Solomon Ibn Gabirol Plan for this world as if you expect to live forever; but plan for the hereafter as if you expect to die tomorrow.
    Solomon Ibn Gabirol
    Andalusian poet and Jewish philosopher (1021 - 1058)
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  • Saul Alinsky Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.
    Saul Alinsky
    American community organizer and writer (1909 - 1972)
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  • Samuel Smiles Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. Precepts and instruction are useful so far as they go, but, without the discipline of real life, they remain of the nature of theory only.
    Samuel Smiles
    Scottish writer (1812 - 1904)
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  • John Keats Praise or blame has but a momentary effect on the man whose love of beauty in the abstract makes him a severe critic on his own works.
    John Keats
    English poet (1795 - 1821)
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  • Miguel de Cervantes Pray look better, Sir... those things yonder are no giants, but windmills.
    Miguel de Cervantes
    Spanish writer and poet (1547 - 1616)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Progress has not followed a straight ascending line, but a spiral with rhythms of progress and retrogression, of evolution and dissolution.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • George Orwell Progress is not an illusion, it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Thomas L. Masson Prohibition may be a disputed theory, but none can say that it doesn't hold water.
    Thomas L. Masson
    American anthropologist, editor and author (1866 - 1934)
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  • Roger Bacon Reasoning draws a conclusion, but does not make the conclusion certain, unless the mind discovers it by the path of experience.
    Roger Bacon
    English philosopher and Franciscan (1214 - 1294)
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