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  • William Shakespeare To thine own self be true; and it must follow, as the night the day: thou canst not then be false to any man.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Samuel Beckett To think, when one is no longer young, when one is not yet old, that one is no longer young, that one is not yet old, that is perhaps something.
    Samuel Beckett
    Irish dramatist and novelist (1906 - 1989)
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  • Benny Goodman To this day, I don't like people walking on stage not looking good. You have to look good. If you feel special about yourself then you're going to play special.
    Benny Goodman
    American jazz clarinetist and bandleader (1909 - 1986)
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  • Robert Thibodeau To try is all. It matters not if one succeeds or fails outwardly.
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  • John Stuart Mill To understand one woman is not necessarily to understand any other woman.
    John Stuart Mill
    English economist (1806 - 1873)
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  • Kahlil Gibran To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to do.
    Kahlil Gibran
    Libian painter and writer (1883 - 1931)
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  • Albert Einstein To understand the world one must not be worrying about one's self.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Thomas Carlyle To us also, through every star, through every blade of grass, is not God made visible if we will open our minds and our eyes.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • H. L. Wayland To value riches is not to be covetous. They are the gift of God, and, like every gift of his, good in themselves, and capable of a good use. But to overvalue riches, to give them a place in the heart which God did not design them to fill, this is covetous
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  • Alexis Carrel To what extent is any given man morally responsible for any given act? We do not know.
    Alexis Carrel
    French surgeon, anatomist and biologist (1873 - 1944)
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  • Barbara Boxer To win the cause we all believe in, the spread of true democracy all over the world, we need to win by example, not just with speeches but by example; not just with military might but by gaining the respect of the world.
    Barbara Boxer
    American politician (1940 - )
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  • Miguel de Cervantes To withdraw is not to run away, and to stay is no wise action, when there's more reason to fear than to hope.
    Miguel de Cervantes
    Spanish writer and poet (1547 - 1616)
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  • George Orwell To write or even speak English is not a science but an art. There are no reliable words.... Whoever writes English is involved in a struggle that never lets up even for a sentence.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Christopher Lasch Today Americans are overcome not by the sense of endless possibility but by the banality of the social order they have erected against it.
    Christopher Lasch
    American historian (1932 - 1994)
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  • Alice Miller Today I should not be identified with any kind of regressive therapy.
    Alice Miller
    Polish-born Swiss psychologist (1923 - 2010)
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  • Thomas Carlyle Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Marshall Mcluhan Today it is not the classroom nor the classics which are the repositories of models of eloquence, but the ad agencies.
    Marshall Mcluhan
    Canadian professor and philosopher (1911 - 1980)
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  • Marshall Mcluhan Today the tyrant rules not by club or fist, but, disguised as a market researcher, he shepherds his flocks in the ways of utility and comfort.
    Marshall Mcluhan
    Canadian professor and philosopher (1911 - 1980)
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  • Sir Peter Medawar Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in. Fear and resentment of what is new is really a lament for the memories of our childhood.
    Sir Peter Medawar
    British biologist and immunologist (1915 - 1987)
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  • Carlos Salinas Today we know that centralization and big bureaucracies have not, as promised, been the answer for promoting better opportunities for society.
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