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  • Mother Teresa The trouble is that rich people, well-to-do people, very often don't really know who the poor are; and that is why we can forgive them, for knowledge can only lead to love, and love to service. And so, if they are not touched by them, it's because they do not know them.
    Mother Teresa
    Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic nun and missionary (1910 - 1997)
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  • Ian McEwan The trouble with being a daydreamer who doesn’t say much is that the teachers at school, especially those who don’t know you very well, are likely to think you’re rather stupid. Or, if not stupid, then dull. No one can see the amazing things that are going on in your head.
    Ian McEwan
    English novelist and screenwriter (1948 - )
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  • Louis de Bernieres The trouble with fulfilling your ambitions is you think you will be transformed into some sort of archangel and you're not. You still have to wash your socks.
    Louis de Bernieres
    British novelist (1954 - )
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  • George Bernard Shaw The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Billy Sunday The trouble with many men is that they have got just enough religion to make them miserable. If there is not joy in religion, you have got a leak in your religion.
    Billy Sunday
    American athlete and evangelist (1862 - 1935)
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  • Paul Valery The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
    Paul Valery
    French poet (1871 - 1945)
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  • Josh Billings The trouble with people is not that they don't know but that they know so much that ain't so.
    Josh Billings
    American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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  • Bill Shankly The trouble with referees is that they know the rules, but they do not know the game.
    Bill Shankly
    Scottish football player and manager (1913 - )
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  • Mark Twain The trouble with the world is not that people know too little, but that they know so many things that ain't so.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • A. E. Housman The troubles of our proud and angry dust are from eternity, and shall not fail. Bear them we can, and if we can we must. Shoulder the sky, my lad, and drink your ale.
    A. E. Housman
    British poet (1859 - 1936)
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  • Olive Schreiner The troubles of the young are soon over; they leave no external mark. If you wound the tree in its youth the bark will quickly cover the gash; but when the tree is very old, peeling the bark off, and looking carefully, you will see the scar there still. All that is buried is not dead.
    Olive Schreiner
    South African author and anti-war campaigner (1855 - 1920)
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  • Frederick W. Robertson The true aim of everyone who aspires to be a teacher should be, not to impart his own opinions, but to kindle minds.
    Frederick W. Robertson
    English divine (1816 - 1853)
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  • Pope John XXIII The true and solid peace of nations consists not in equality of arms, but in mutual trust alone.
    Pope John XXIII
    Catholic Pope from 1958-1963 (1881 - 1963)
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  • Alice Meynell The true color of life is the color of the body, the color of the covered red, the implicit and not explicit red of the living heart and the pulses. It is the modest color of the unpublished blood.
    Alice Meynell
    British poet, writer (1847 - 1922)
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  • Bill Veeck The true harbinger of spring is not crocuses or swallows returning to Capistrano, but the sound of the bat on the ball.
    Bill Veeck
    American Major League Baseball franchise owner and promoter (1914 - )
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  • James Russell Lowell The true ideal is not opposed to the real but lies in it; and blessed are the eyes that find it.
    James Russell Lowell
    American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat (1819 - 1891)
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  • Don DeLillo The true life is not reducible to words spoken or written, not by anyone, ever.
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    Don DeLillo
    American Author (1936 - )
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  • Matthew Arnold The true meaning of religion is thus, not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
    Matthew Arnold
    British critic and poet (1822 - 1888)
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  • John Lyly The true measure of life is not length, but honesty.
    John Lyly
    English writer, poet, dramatist, and courtier (1553 - 1606)
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  • Ban Ki-moon The true measure of success for the U.N. is not how much we promise, but how much we deliver for those who need us most.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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