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  • Lyndon B. Johnson A president's hardest task is not to do what is right, but to know what is right.
    Lyndon B. Johnson
    American president (1908 - 1973)
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  • B. C. Forbes A price has to be paid for success. Almost invariably those who have reached the summits worked harder and longer, studied and planned more assiduously, practiced more self-denial, overcame more difficulties than those of us who have not risen so far.
    B. C. Forbes
    American Publisher (1880 - 1954)
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  • Winston Churchill A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Miguel de Cervantes A private sin is not so prejudicial in this world, as a public indecency.
    Miguel de Cervantes
    Spanish writer and poet (1547 - 1616)
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  • Bertrand Russell A process which led from the amoebae to man appeared to the philosophers to be obviously a progress - though whether the amoebae would agree with this opinion is not known.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Lord Northcliffe A professional whose job it is to explain to others what it personally does not understand.
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  • Paul Bourget A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another.
    Paul Bourget
    French writer (1852 - 1935)
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  • John Keats A proverb is not a proverb to you until life has illustrated it.
    John Keats
    English poet (1795 - 1821)
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  • Charles Lamb A pun is not bound by the laws which limit nicer wit. It is a pistol let off at the ear; not a feather to tickle the intellect.
    Charles Lamb
    English essayist (1775 - 1834)
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  • A. J. P. Taylor A racing tipster who only reached Hitler's level of accuracy would not do well for his clients.
    A. J. P. Taylor
    British historian (1906 - 1990)
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  • James Russell Lowell A reading machine, always wound up and going, he mastered whatever was not worth the knowing.
    James Russell Lowell
    American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat (1819 - 1891)
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  • W. H. Auden A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us.
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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  • Bee Wilson A recipe is not an exact formula, but it does need a certain structure. When the bones are right, you can dress it in many ways.
    Bee Wilson
    British food writer, journalist and historian
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  • Jose Ortega Y Gasset A revolution does not last more than fifteen years, the period which coincides with the flourishing of a generation.
    Jose Ortega Y Gasset
    Spanish writer and philosopher (1883 - 1955)
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  • Fidel Castro A revolution is not a bed of roses. A revolution is a struggle between the future and the past.
    Fidel Castro
    Cuban revolutionary and politician (1926 - 2016)
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  • Mao Tse-Tung A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery; it cannot be so refined, so leisurely and gentle, so temperate, kind, courteous, restrained and magnanimous. A revolution is an insurrection, an act of violence by which one class overthrows another.
    Mao Tse-Tung
    Chinese politician (1893 - 1976)
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  • Adrienne Rich A revolutionary poem will not tell you who or when to kill, what and when to burn, or even how to theorize. It reminds you... where and when and how you are living and might live, it is a wick of desire.
    Adrienne Rich
    American Poet (1929 - 2012)
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  • John Gay A rich rogue nowadays is fit company for any gentleman; and the world, my dear, hath not such a contempt for roguery as you imagine.
    John Gay
    British playwright and poet (1685 - 1732)
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  • Ramsey Clark A right is not what someone gives you, it's what no one can take away from you.
    Ramsey Clark
    American lawyer and activist (1927 - )
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  • Lyndon B. Johnson A rioter with a Molotov cocktail in his hands is not fighting for civil rights any more than a Klansman with a sheet on his back and a mask on his face.
    Lyndon B. Johnson
    American president (1908 - 1973)
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