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  • Charles Caleb Colton Philosophy is a bully that talks loud when the danger is at a distant; but, the moment she is pressed hard by an enemy, she is nowhere to be found and leaves the brunt of the battle to be fought by her steady, humble comrade, religion.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Plato Philosophy is an elegant thing, if anyone modestly meddles with it; but if they are conversant with it more than is becoming, it corrupts them.
    Plato
    Greek philosopher (427 - 347)
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  • John Selden Philosophy is nothing but discretion.
    John Selden
    British Jurist, Statesman (1584 - 1654)
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  • B. Kevin Turner Phones remain a critical component of the Microsoft device portfolio and an important piece of our mobility strategy, but a restructuring is in order.
    B. Kevin Turner
    American businessman (1965 - )
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  • Bill Berry Physically my brain is in great shape. My motor functions are fine, but I think going through the whole ordeal... coming pretty close to death, may have affected my priorities.
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  • Richard P. Feynman Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it.
    Richard P. Feynman
    American theoretical physicist and Nobel price winner (1918 - 1988)
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  • Francis Bacon Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects and please or displease only in the memory.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Martin Luther King Pity may represent little more than the impersonal concern which prompts the mailing of a check, but true sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one's soul.
    Martin Luther King
    American preacher (1929 - 1968)
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  • Katharine Hepburn Plain women know more about men than beautiful ones do. But beautiful women don't need to know about men. It's the men who have to know about beautiful women.
    Katharine Hepburn
    American Actress, Writer (1907 - 2003)
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  • Gloria Steinem Planning ahead is a measure of class. The rich and even the middle class plan for future generations, but the poor can plan ahead only a few weeks or days.
    Gloria Steinem
    American feminist writer (1934 - )
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  • Aristotle Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Beth Henley Plays are so much more special if they've never ever had a production, but I think you can really work on a play and make it better with each production.
    Beth Henley
    American playwright, screenwriter, and actress (1952 - )
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  • Lucretius Pleasant it is, when over a great sea the winds trouble the waters, to gaze from shore upon another's great tribulation; not because any man's troubles are a delectable joy, but because to perceive you are free of them yourself is pleasant.
    Lucretius
    Roman poet and philosopher (95 - 55)
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  • James Baldwin Please try to remember that what they believe, as well as what they do and cause you to endure does not testify to your inferiority but to their inhumanity.
    Nobody Knows My Name (1961)
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Nicolas Chamfort Pleasure can be supported by an illusion; but happiness rests upon truth.
    Nicolas Chamfort
    French writer, journalist and playwright (1741 - 1794)
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  • John Selden Pleasure is nothing else but the intermission of pain.
    John Selden
    British Jurist, Statesman (1584 - 1654)
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  • Nicolas Chamfort Pleasure may come from illusion, but happiness can come only of reality.
    Nicolas Chamfort
    French writer, journalist and playwright (1741 - 1794)
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  • Henry L. Doherty Plenty of men can do good work for a spurt and with immediate promotion in mind, but for promotion you want a man in whom good work has become a habit.
    Henry L. Doherty
    Irish-American financier and oilman
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  • Captain J. G. Stedman Poetry is an art, the easiest to dabble in, but the hardest to reach true excellence.
    Captain J. G. Stedman
    British soldiar, writer, artist (1744 - 1797)
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  • Thomas Hardy Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art.
    Thomas Hardy
    British writer and poet (1840 - 1928)
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