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  • Bee Wilson The main influence on a child's palate may no longer be a parent but a series of food manufacturers whose products - despite their illusion of infinite choice - deliver a monotonous flavour hit, quite unlike the more varied flavours of traditional cuisine.
    Bee Wilson
    British food writer, journalist and historian
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  • Thomas Hardy The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him.
    Thomas Hardy
    British writer and poet (1840 - 1928)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts but learning how to make facts live.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Billy Paul The male singers who had the same range I did, when I was growing up, didn't do much for me. But put on Nina Simone, Carmen McRae or Nancy Wilson, and I'd be in seventh heaven. Female vocalists just did more with their voices, and that's why I paid more attention to them.
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  • Sir Arthur Helps The man of the house can destroy the pleasure of the household, but he cannot make it. That rests with the woman, and it is her greatest privilege.
    Sir Arthur Helps
    English writer and dean of the Privy Council (1813 - 1875)
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  • Calvin Coolidge The man who builds a factory builds a temple, that the man who works there worships there, and to each is due, not scorn and blame, but reverence and praise.
    Calvin Coolidge
    American president (1872 - 1933)
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  • Charles M. Schwab The man who does not work for the love of work but only for money is not likely to make money nor find much fun in life.
    Charles M. Schwab
    American industrialist (1862 - 1939)
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  • Thomas Jefferson The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing, but newspapers.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Aaron Hill The man with but one idea in his head is sure to exaggerate that to top-heaviness, and thus he loses his equilibrium.
    Aaron Hill
    English dramatist and writer (1685 - 1750)
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  • John F. Kennedy The margin is narrow, but the responsibility is clear.
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • Douglas Everett The mark of a well educated person is not necessarily in knowing all the answers, but in knowing where to find them.
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  • Anita Roddick The market controls everything, but the market has no heart.
    Anita Roddick
    British businesswoman and human rights activist (1942 - 2007)
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  • Bhagat Singh The martyrdom of Lalaji has shaken the Congressmen. Pandit Jawahar Lal Nehru is planning something solid to be presented for adoption in the coming session of the Congress, but I am not sure if he would be able to do something.
    Bhagat Singh
    Indian socialist revolutionary (1907 - 1931)
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  • Bayard Taylor The maxims tell you to aim at perfection, which is well; but it's unattainable, all the same.
    Bayard Taylor
    American poet, travel author, and diplomat (1825 - 1878)
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  • Henry Ward Beecher The meanest, most contemptible kind of praise is that which first speaks well of a man, and then qualifies it with a ''But''.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Carlos Gershenson The meaning of life does not depend on where one is standing, but on towards where one is heading.
    Original: El sentido de la vida depende no de donde se encuentre uno sino de adonde se dirija.
    Zire Notes May 2004 December 2006
    Carlos Gershenson
    Mexican author and academic (1978 - )
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  • Corrie Ten Boom The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.
    Corrie Ten Boom
    Dutch-American resistance fighter and autobiographical writer (1892 - 1983)
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  • John Foster Dulles The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it's the same problem you had last year.
    John Foster Dulles
    American diplomat (1888 - 1959)
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  • Jackie Joyner Kersee The medals don't mean anything and the glory doesn't last. It's all about your happiness. The rewards are going to come, but my happiness is just loving the sport and having fun performing.
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  • Bruce Jackson The media bring our wars home, but only rarely have they been able to do it in complete freedom.
    Bruce Jackson
    American folklorist, documentary filmmaker and writer (1936 - )
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