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  • Harry Houdini No prison can hold me; no hand or leg irons or steel locks can shackle me. No ropes or chains can keep me from my freedom.
    Harry Houdini
    Hungarian-born American illusionist (1874 - 1926)
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  • John Pierpont Morgan No problem can be solved until it is reduced to some simple form. The changing of a vague difficulty into a specific, concrete form is a very essential element in thinking.
    John Pierpont Morgan
    American banker, financer, art collector (1837 - 1913)
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  • Voltaire No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • Alexis de Tocqueville No protracted war can fail to endanger the freedom of a democratic country.
    Alexis de Tocqueville
    French aristocrat, political philosopher and sociologist (1805 - 1859)
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  • Carl Gustav Jung No psychic value can disappear without being replaced by another of equivalent intensity.
    Source: Modern Man in Search of a Soul (1933)
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Booker T. Washington No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
    Booker T. Washington
    American Black Leader and Educator (1856 - 1915)
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  • Algernon Sydney No right can come by conquest, unless there were a right of making that conquest.
    Algernon Sydney
    English politician (1623 - 1683)
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  • Thomas Carlyle No sadder proof can be given of a person's own tiny stature, than their disbelief in great people.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Albrecht Durer No single man can be taken as a model for a perfect figure, for no man lives on earth who is endowed with the whole of beauty.
    Albrecht Durer
    German painter (1471 - 1528)
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  • Adam Smith No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.
    Adam Smith
    Scottish Economist (1723 - 1790)
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  • David Jenkins No statement about God is simply, literally true. God is far more than can be measured, described, defined in ordinary language, or pinned down to any particular happening.
    David Jenkins
     
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  • Sidonie Gabrielle Colette No temptation can ever be measured by the value of its object.
    Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
    French writer (1873 - 1954)
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  • Shirley Williams No test tube can breed love and affection. No frozen packet of semen ever read a story to a sleepy child.
    Shirley Williams
    British baroness, politician and academic (1930 - 2021)
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  • Edgar Sheffield Brightman No totalitarians, no wars, no fears, famines or perils of any kind can really break a man's spirit until he breaks it himself by surrendering. Tyranny has many dread powers, but not the power to rule the spirit.
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  • Samuel Johnson No two men can be half an hour together but one shall acquire an evident superiority over the other.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Alan Watts No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.
    Alan Watts
    English philosopher, priest and writer (1915 - 1973)
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  • Horace No verse can give pleasure for long, nor last, that is written by drinkers of water.
    Horace
    Roman poet
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  • Lord Thomas Dewar No wife can endure a gambling husband; unless he is a steady winner.
    Lord Thomas Dewar
    Scottish businessman (1864 - 1930)
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  • William Hazlitt No wise man can have a contempt for the prejudices of others; and he should even stand in a certain awe of his own, as if they were aged parents and monitors. They may in the end prove wiser than he.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Langston Hughes No woman can be handsome by the force of features alone, any more that she can be witty by only the help of speech.
    Langston Hughes
    American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright and columnist (1901 - 1967)
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