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  • Lee Trevino How can they beat me? I've been struck by lightning, had two back operations, and been divorced twice.
    Lee Trevino
    American golfer (1939 - )
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  • Henry David Thoreau How can they expect a harvest of thought who have not had the seed time of character.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld How can we accept another to keep our secret if we have been unable to keep it ourselves.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • George Bernard Shaw How can what an Englishman believes be hearsay? It is a contradiction in terms.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Chief Seattle How can you buy or sell the sky, the warmth of the land? The idea is strange to us. If we do not own the freshness of the air and the sparkle of the water, how can you buy them? Every part of the earth is sacred to my people.
    Chief Seattle
    Suquamish Tribe chief (1786 - 1866)
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  • George Bernard Shaw How can you dare teach a man to read until you've taught him everything else first?
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn How can you expect a man who's warm to understand one who's cold?
    Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn
    Russian Novelist (1918 - 2008)
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  • Charles de Gaulle How can you govern a country with two hundred and forty six varieties of cheese?
    Charles de Gaulle
    French statesman (1890 - 1970)
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  • Richard Dawkins How can you take seriously someone who likes to believe something because he finds it 'comforting'?
    Richard Dawkins
    English ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author (1941 - )
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  • Benjamin Robert Haydon How difficult it is to get men to believe that any other man can or does act from disinterestedness.
    Benjamin Robert Haydon
    English painter (1786 - 1846)
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  • Elizabeth Barrett Browning How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.
    Elizabeth Barrett Browning
    English poet (1806 - 1861)
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  • Bill Hybels How do you pray a prayer so filled with faith that it can move a mountain? By shifting your focus from the size of your mountain to the sufficiency of the Mountain Mover and then stepping forward in obedience.
    Source: Too Busy Not to Pray
    Bill Hybels
    American church figure and author (1951 - )
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  • Ben Gibbard How I wish you could see the potential
    The potential of you and me
    It's like a book elegantly bound, but
    In a language that you can't read just yet You got to spend some time, love
    You got to spend some time with me
    And I know that you'll find love
    I will possess your heart
    Source: Narrow Stairs I Will Possess Your Heart
    Ben Gibbard
    American singer, songwriter and guitarist (1976 - )
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  • Søren Kierkegaard How ironical that it is by means of speech that man can degrade himself below the level of dumb creation - for a chatterbox is truly of a lower category than a dumb creature.
    Søren Kierkegaard
    Danish philosopher (1813 - 1855)
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  • Alan Watts How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself anything less than a god.
    Alan Watts
    English philosopher, priest and writer (1915 - 1973)
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  • Socrates How many are the things I can do without!
    Socrates
    Greek philosopher (469 - 399)
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  • Brin-Jonathan Butler How much abuse is a fighter expected to endure before he can be allowed to show some concern for his own welfare? Anyone who has been around fighters knows they all share the same secret: They are more afraid of embarrassment and humiliation than injury. Do fans and writers use this fact against them in what we celebrate or criticize?
    Brin-Jonathan Butler
    American journalist and filmmaker
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  • Anna Freud How one can live without being able to judge oneself, criticize what one has accomplished, and still enjoy what one does, is unimaginable to me.
    Anna Freud
    Austrian-British psychoanalyst (1895 - 1982)
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  • Ernest Hemingway How simple the writing of literature would be if it were only necessary to write in another way what has been well written. It is because we have had such great writers in the past that a writer is driven far out past where he can go, out to where no one can help him.
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • Anne Frank How true Daddy's words were when he said: all children must look after their own upbringing. Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.
    Anne Frank
    Jewish refugee and writer (1929 - 1945)
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