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  • Oscar Wilde One can survive everything, nowadays, except death.
    The picture of Dorian Gray (1891)
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Boman Irani One can understand a person by the way he removes his wallet and puts his hand to take out money.
    Boman Irani
    Indian actor (1959 - )
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  • Bernard Malamud One can't make pure clay of time's mud. There is no life that can be recaptured wholly; as it was. Which is to say that all biography is ultimately fiction.
    Dubins Lives p. 27.
    Bernard Malamud
    American novelist (1914 - 1986)
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  • Louis Ferdinand Céline One can't relive one's life. Forgiveness is not what's difficult; one's always too ready to forgive. And it does no good, that's obvious.
    Louis Ferdinand Céline
    French writer (1894 - 1961)
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  • Carolyn Heilbrun One cannot make up stories; one can only retell in new ways the stories one has already heard.
    Carolyn Heilbrun
    American academic and author (1926 - 2003)
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  • Bryant H. McGill One column of truth cannot hold an institution of ideas from falling into ignorance. It is wiser that a person of prudence and purpose save his strength for battles that can be won.
    Bryant H. McGill
    American journalist and author (1969 - )
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  • Boris Yeltsin One could see that what you are writing was that today's meeting with President Bill Clinton was going to be a disaster. Now, for the first time, I can tell you that you are a disaster.
    Speaking to the press following a postively productive meeting with Bill Clinton (24 October 1995)
    Boris Yeltsin
    Russian politician (1931 - 2007)
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  • Caroline Wozniacki One day my dad would say, 'OK, if you want to play tennis I can help you out.' And that's how it started. And I had a goal. I wanted to beat my mom first. And my parents and my brother. And that was the ultimate goal.
    Caroline Wozniacki
    Danish tennis player (1990 - )
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  • Jonathan Swift One enemy can do more hurt, than ten friends can do good.
    Journal to Stella (30 June 1711)
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg One is rarely an impulsive innovator after the age of sixty, but one can still be a very fine orderly and inventive thinker. One rarely procreates children at that age, but one is all the more skilled at educating those who have already been procreated, and education is procreation of another kind.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Gail Godwin One is taught by experience to put a premium on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are.
    Gail Godwin
    American novelist and short story writer (1937 - )
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  • Ernest Bramah One learns to itch where one can scratch.
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  • Peace Pilgrim One little person, giving all of her time to peace, makes news. Many people, giving some of their time, can make history.
    Peace Pilgrim
    American activist, mystic and pacifist
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  • Elbert Hubbard One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
    Elbert Hubbard
    American writer and publisher (1856 - 1915)
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  • Kareem Abdul-Jabbar One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.
    Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
    American retired professional basketball player (1947 - )
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  • Mark Twain One may make their house a palace of sham, or they can make it a home, a refuge.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Thomas Alva Edison One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But speaking for myself, I can honestly say this is not so... I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.
    Thomas Alva Edison
    American inventor and founder of General Electric (1847 - 1931)
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  • Bobbi Kristina Brown One moment I can be happy and laughing, but then it comes over me. It's my mom.
    Bobbi Kristina Brown
    American reality television personality, media personality, and singer (1993 - 2015)
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  • Alan Cohen One moment of true forgiveness can erase years of guilt, pain, or fear.
    Alan Cohen
    American businessman (1954 - )
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  • Anne Sophie Swetchine One must be a somebody before they can have a enemy. One must be a force before he can be resisted by another force.
    Anne Sophie Swetchine
    Russian writer (1782 - 1857)
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