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  • Charles Edward Jerningham The best way to secure revenge is not to make your enemy fail, but to succeed yourself.
    The maxims of Marmaduke
    Charles Edward Jerningham
    English aphorist (1854 - 1921)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The betrothed and accepted lover has lost the wildest charms of his maiden by her acceptance. She was heaven while he pursued her, but she cannot be heaven if she stoops to one such as he!
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Richard Dawkins The Bible should be taught, but emphatically not as reality. It is fiction, myth, poetry, anything but reality. As such it needs to be taught because it underlies so much of our literature and our culture.
    Richard Dawkins
    English ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author (1941 - )
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  • Buzz Aldrin The big companies are the private industry. But they're faced with a short-term need to show a profit in short-term.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • Mother Teresa The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted.
    Mother Teresa
    Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic nun and missionary (1910 - 1997)
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  • John Maynard Keynes The biggest problem is not to let people accept new ideas, but to let them forget the old ones.
    John Maynard Keynes
    British economist (1883 - 1946)
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  • Bobby Orr The biggest thing we get out of it is seeing the kids smile. And hopefully we will also see that the lessons we're teaching - not only the fundamentals of hockey, but also the life values - are sinking in.
    Bobby Orr
    Canadian ice hockey player (1948 - )
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  • Art Rooney The biggest thrill wasn't in winning on Sunday but in meeting the payroll on Monday.
    Art Rooney
    American football team owner (1901 - )
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  • Pearl S. Buck The bitterest creature under heaven is the wife who discovers that her husband's bravery is only bravado, that his strength is only a uniform, that his power is but a gun in the hands of a fool.
    Pearl S. Buck
    American novelist (1892 - 1973)
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  • Samuel Johnson The blaze of reputation cannot be blown out, but it often dies in the socket; a very few names may be considered as perpetual lamps that shine unconsumed.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Bob Mould The blues is something separate from what I do. They connect at certain spots, but blues is different. I wouldn't put it in with what my career has been. That would be a whole separate wing.
    Bob Mould
    American musician (1960 - )
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  • B. B. King The blues was like that problem child that you may have had in the family. You was a little bit ashamed to let anybody see him, but you loved him. You just didn't know how other people would take it.
    B. B. King
    American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and record producer (1925 - 2015)
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  • Bhagavad Gita The body is mortal, but the person dwelling in the body is immortal and immeasurable.
    Bhagavad Gita
    Indian Hindu storybook
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  • Oscar Wilde The body sins once, and has done with its sin, for action is a mode of purification. Nothing remains then but the recollection of a pleasure, or the luxury of a regret.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Robert Louis Stevenson The bold may not live long, but the timid never live at all.
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    Scottish writer and poet (1850 - 1894)
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  • Richard Bach The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life.
    Richard Bach
    American author (1936 - )
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  • Theodore Parker The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty.
    Theodore Parker
    American minister (1810 - 1860)
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  • Tom Robbins The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.
    Tom Robbins
    American novelist (1932 - )
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  • Barry Ritholtz The bottom line is this: Cash, in modest increments, has a role in any portfolio. But unless you are Warren Buffett, you should limit it to 2 or 3 percent.
    Barry Ritholtz
    American author and newspaper columnist
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  • Theodore Roosevelt The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.
    Theodore Roosevelt
    American statesman (1858 - 1919)
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