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  • Benjamin Netanyahu Those in the international community that refuse to put red lines before Iran don't have a moral right to place a red light before Israel.
    Benjamin Netanyahu
    Israeli politician (2009 - )
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  • Dhammapada Those who have high thoughts are ever striving; they are not happy to remain in the same place. Like swans that leave their lake and rise into the air, they leave their home and fly for a higher home.
    Dhammapada
    collection of sayings of the Buddha in verse form
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  • William Wordsworth Thou unassuming common-place of Nature, with that homely face.
    William Wordsworth
    English poet (1770 - 1850)
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  • Thomas Carlyle Thought once awakened does not again slumber; unfolds itself into a System of Thought; grows, in man after man, generation after generation, till its full stature is reached, and such System of Thought can grow no farther, but must give place to another.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Thy fate is the common fate of all; Into each life some rain must fall.
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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  • John Dryden Time, place, and action may with pains be wrought, but genius must be born; and never can be taught.
    John Dryden
    English poet and playwright (1631 - 1700)
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  • Buzz Aldrin Timing has always been a key element in my life. I have been blessed to have been in the right place at the right time.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • Joseph Conrad To a teacher of languages there comes a time when the world is but a place of many words and man appears a mere talking animal not much more wonderful than a parrot.
    Joseph Conrad
    In Poland born English writer (1857 - 1924)
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  • Horace Walpole To act with common sense, according to the moment, is the best wisdom I know; and the best philosophy, to do one's duties, take the world as it comes, submit respectfully to one's lot, bless the goodness that has given us so much happiness with it, whatever it is, and despise affectation.
    Letter to Sir Horace Mann (27-05-1776)
    Horace Walpole
    British writer (1717 - 1797)
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  • Leszczynski Stanislaus To be vain of one's rank or place is to show that one is below it.
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  • Plutarch To do an evil act is base. To do a good one without incurring danger, is common enough. But it is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds though he risks everything in doing them.
    Plutarch
    Greek biographer and essayist (46 - 120)
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  • George Santayana To drink in the spirit of a place you should be not only alone but not hurried.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • G. Woodberry To feel that one has a place in life solves half the problem of contentment.
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  • George Edward Woodberry To feel that one has a place in life solves half the problems of contentment.
    George Edward Woodberry
    American poet and literary critic (1855 - 1930)
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  • Eric Hoffer To grow old is to grow common. Old age equalizes, we are aware that what is happening to us has happened to untold numbers from the beginning of time. When we are young we act as if we were the first young people in the world.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Gottfried Wilhelm Von Leibniz To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.
    Gottfried Wilhelm Von Leibniz
    German mathematician, philosopher, physicist and diplomat (1646 - 1716)
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  • Imamu Amiri Baraka To name something is to wait for it in the place you think it will pass.
    Imamu Amiri Baraka
    African-American writer of poetry, drama and fiction (1934 - 2014)
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  • Marilyn French To nourish and raise children against odds is in any time, any place, more valuable than to fix bolts in cars or design nuclear weapons.
    Marilyn French
    American radical feminist author (1929 - 2009)
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  • Georges Bataille To place oneself in the position of God is painful: being God is equivalent to being tortured. For being God means that one is in harmony with all that is, including the worst. The existence of the worst evils is unimaginable unless God willed them.
    Georges Bataille
    French writer and critic (1897 - 1962)
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  • Campbell Brown To some people, Common Core means what it actually is, which is a set of standards. That's not necessarily most people. To other people, Common Core is a new curriculum that's been implemented at their school that they don't understand. It's applying new teaching tools.
    Campbell Brown
    American journalist (1968 - )
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