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  • Bobbie Ann Mason During the Cold War, workers proudly contributed to national defense, but the carelessness and haste in handling toxic waste created a nightmare of pollution for subsequent generations.
    Bobbie Ann Mason
    American novelist and short story writer
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  • Mark Twain Duties are not performed for duty's sake, but because their neglect would make the man uncomfortable. A man performs but one duty -the duty of contenting his spirit, the duty of making himself agreeable to himself.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Dying is a troublesome business: there is pain to be suffered, and it wrings one's heart; but death is a splendid thing -a warfare accomplished, a beginning all over again, a triumph. You can always see that in their faces.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • A.E. Matthews Dying's tough, but not as tough as comedy.
    A.E. Matthews
    English actor (1869 - 1960)
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  • John Calvin Each eye can have its vision separately; but when we are looking at anything… our vision, which in itself is divided, joins up and unites in order to give itself as a whole to the object that is put before it.
    John Calvin
    French theologian, pastor and reformer (1509 - 1564)
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  • Robert Louis Stevenson Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    Scottish writer and poet (1850 - 1894)
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  • Virgil Each man has his appointed day: short and irreparable in the brief life of all, but to extend our fame by our deeds, this is the work of mankind.
    Virgil
    Roman poet (70 - 19)
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  • Luigi Pirandello Each of us, face to face with other men, is clothed with some sort of dignity, but we know only too well all the unspeakable things that go on in the heart.
    Luigi Pirandello
    Italian poet, playwright and Nobel laureate in literature (1934) (1867 - 1936)
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  • Tim O'Brien Each of us, I suppose needs his illusions. Life after death. A maker of planets. A woman to love, a man to hate. Something sacred. But what a waste.
    Tomcat in Love (2011) 319
    Tim O'Brien
    American novelist (1946 - )
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  • Wayne Dyer Each person must decide for himself what he wants each day. As a leader, I will expose you to the options and the likely consequences of those options. I'll even share my opinion if asked, but I'll never confuse it with the opinion, which simply doesn't exist.
    Wayne Dyer
    American philosopher, self-help author, and a motivational speaker. (1940 - 2015)
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  • Bayard Taylor Each separate star Seems nothing, but a myriad scattered stars Break up the Night, and make it beautiful.
    Bayard Taylor
    American poet, travel author, and diplomat (1825 - 1878)
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  • Charles Prestwich Scott Eagles come in all shapes and sizes, but you will recognize them chiefly by their attitudes.
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  • Barbara Jordan Earlier today we heard the beginning of the Preamble to the Constitution of the United States. 'We the people.' It is a very eloquent beginning. But, when that document was completed on the 17th of September in 1787, I was not included in that 'We, the people.' I felt somehow for many years that George Washington and Alexander Hamilton just left me out by mistake. But, through the process of amendment, interpretation, and court decision, I have finally been included in 'We, t
    Statement before House Judiciary Committee considering impeachment of Richard Nixon, 25 July 1974
    Barbara Jordan
    American lawyer, educator and politician (1936 - 1996)
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  • Ajay Devgan Earlier, I used to charge territories instead of my fees as an actor, but I realised it was better to keep the two apart. Now, I take my fees in cash, for acting, and keep the distribution thing separate.
    Ajay Devgan
    Indian film actor and director (1969 - )
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  • Alberto Salazar Early in my career I was accused of being overconfident and even cocky, but I really was confident that I had done the training and didn't see any other reason to say otherwise.
    Alberto Salazar
    American track coach and long-distance runner (1958 - )
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  • Benjamin Franklin Eat to please thyself, but dress to please others.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Logan Pearsall Smith Eat with the rich, but go to the play with the poor, who are capable to joy.
    Logan Pearsall Smith
    English writer (1865 - 1946)
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  • Ben Bernanke Economics has many substantive areas of knowledge where there is agreement, but also contains areas of controversy. That's inescapable.
    Ben Bernanke
    American economist (1953 - )
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  • Arthur Wellesley Duke of Wellington Educate people without religion and you make them but clever devils.
    Arthur Wellesley Duke of Wellington
    Irish military leader and statesman, defeated Napoleon (1769 - 1852)
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  • George Macaulay Trevelyan Education has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
    George Macaulay Trevelyan
    British historian and academic (1876 - 1962)
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