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  • Joseph Addison Our delight in any particular study, art, or science rises and improves in proportion to the application which we bestow upon it. Thus, what was at first an exercise becomes at length an entertainment.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • George Washington Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.
    George Washington
    First president of the US (1732 - 1799)
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg Prejudices are so to speak the mechanical instincts of men: through their prejudices they do without any effort many things they would find too difficult to think through to the point of resolving to do them.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Albert Einstein Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Bruce Catton Say this for big league baseball - it is beyond any question the greatest conversation piece ever invented in America.
    Bruce Catton
    American historian and journalist (1899 - 1978)
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  • Arthur Baer She used to diet on any kind of food she could lay her hands on.
    Arthur Baer
    American journalist and humorist (1886 - 1969)
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  • Michael Korda Success on any major scale requires you to accept responsibility. In the final analysis, the only quality that all successful people have is the ability to take on responsibility.
    Michael Korda
    American publisher (1933 - )
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  • George Bernard Shaw Suppose the world were only one of God's jokes, would you work any the less to make it a good joke instead of a bad one?
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Thorstein Veblen The basis on which good repute in any highly organized industrial community ultimately rests is pecuniary strength; and the means of showing pecuniary strength, and so of gaining or retaining a good name, are leisure and a conspicuous consumption of goods
    Thorstein Veblen
    Norwegian-American economist and sociologist (1857 - 1929)
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  • A. W. Tozer The devil is a better theologian than any of us and is a devil still.
    A. W. Tozer
    American Christian pastor, preacher and author
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  • Percy Bysshe Shelley The Galilean is not a favorite of mine. So far from owing him any thanks for his favor, I cannot avoid confessing that I owe a secret grudge to his carpentership.
    Percy Bysshe Shelley
    English poet (1792 - 1822)
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  • Arthur Schopenhauer The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness.
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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  • Harry S. Truman The human animal cannot be trusted for anything good except en masse. The combined thought and action of the whole people of any race, creed or nationality, will always point in the right direction.
    Harry S. Truman
    American president (1884 - 1972)
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  • Samuel Johnson The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Lester Bangs The only questions worth asking today are whether humans are going to have any emotions tomorrow, and what the quality of life will be if the answer is no.
    Lester Bangs
    American music journalist, critic and author (1948 - 1982)
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  • James Baldwin The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an immediate knowledge of its ugly side.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Al Sharpton The promise of America is one immigration policy for all who seek to enter our shores, whether they come from Mexico, Haiti or Canada, there must be one set of rules for everybody. We cannot welcome those to come and then try and act as though any culture will not be respected or treated inferior. We cannot look at the Latino community and preach 'one language.' No one gave them an English test before they sent them to Iraq to fight for America.
    Al Sharpton
    American civil rights activist, Baptist minister and talk show host (1954 - )
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  • Stephen R. Covey There are three constants in life: change, choice and principles.
    Stephen R. Covey
    American educator, author and businessman (1932 - 2012)
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  • Sun Tzu Therefore the skilful leader subdues the enemy's troops without any fighting; he captures their cities without laying siege to them; he overthrows their kingdom without lengthy operations in the field.
    Sun Tzu
    Chinese general and strategist (544 - 496)
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  • Henry Ward Beecher To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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