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  • Sir John Lubbock We often hear of people breaking down from overwork, but in nine out of ten they are really suffering from worry or anxiety.
    Sir John Lubbock
    British statesman and banker (1834 - 1913)
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  • Booker T. Washington We shall prosper as we learn to do the common things of life in an uncommon way. Let down your buckets where you are.
    Booker T. Washington
    American Black Leader and Educator (1856 - 1915)
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  • Booker T. Washington Wherever our life touches yours, we help or hinder... wherever your life touches ours, you make us stronger or weaker.... There is no escape - man drags man down, or man lifts man up.
    Booker T. Washington
    American Black Leader and Educator (1856 - 1915)
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  • Booker T. Washington You can't hold a man down without staying down with him.
    Booker T. Washington
    American Black Leader and Educator (1856 - 1915)
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  • Lewis Carroll ''Write that down,'' the King said to the jury, and the jury eagerly wrote down all three dates on their slates, and then added them up, and reduced the answer to shillings and pence.
    Lewis Carroll
    British Writer, Mathematician (1832 - 1898)
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  • Carolyn See 'The Talk-Funny Girl' opens with a glum picture of a desperately poor rural New England family. Poverty has so brutalized the family that the ordinary laws and rules governing humanity have eroded, turning systems of behavior upside down.
    Carolyn See
    American writer (1934 - 2016)
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  • Joseph Rudyard Kipling 'Tis beauty, so to speak, nor good talk necessarily. It's just IT. Some women will stay in a man's memory if they once walked down a street.
    Joseph Rudyard Kipling
    English writer (1865 - 1936)
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  • Buddy Hackett A comic, you have to be looking down at him. My favorite rooms, the audience is above the stage, stadium-style.
    Buddy Hackett
    American actor and comedian (1924 - 2003)
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  • W. H. Auden A daydream is a meal at which images are eaten. Some of us are gourmets, some gourmands, and a good many take their images precooked out of a can and swallow them down whole, absent-mindedly and with little relish.
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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  • Peter Ustinov A diplomat these days in nothing, but a head waiter who is allowed to sit down occasionally.
    Peter Ustinov
    British actor, writer, director (1921 - 2004)
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  • Robert Benchley A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down.
    Robert Benchley
    American humorist, criticus (1889 - 1945)
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  • James Thurber A drawing is always dragged down to the level of its caption.
    James Thurber
    American cartoonist (1894 - 1961)
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  • Thomas Malthus A feather will weigh down a scale when there is nothing in the opposite one.
    Principles of Political Economy (1836) II, I, V
    Thomas Malthus
    English cleric and scholar (1766 - 1834)
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  • Beverly Sills A happy woman is one who has no cares at all; a cheerful woman is one who has cares but doesn't let them get her down.
    Beverly Sills
    American operatic soprano (1929 - 2007)
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  • Rose Macaulay A hot bath! I cry, as I sit down in it! Again as I lie flat, a hot bath! How exquisite a pleasure, how luxurious, fervid and flagrant a consolation for the rigors, the austerities, the renunciation of the day.
    Rose Macaulay
    English writer (1881 - 1958)
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  • Adlai Stevenson II A hypocrite is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation.
    Adlai Stevenson II
    American politician and governor (1900 - 1965)
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  • Carly Craig A lot of female comedians will go up there in a sweatshirt and Converses, trying to dress themselves down, because it is sort of a boy's club. I'll go up in my heels. I like that people don't think I'll be funny. I'll take that on. I don't do standup comedy - I do standup and I do comedy, but I don't go up there and do jokes.
    Carly Craig
    American actress (1980 - )
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  • Bob Dylan A lot of people don't have much food on their table
    But they got a lot of forks and knives
    And they gotta cut something
    Bob Dylan (1962)
    Bob Dylan
    American musician (1941 - )
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  • Billy Childish A moustache to a man is the same as a fringe is to a woman. When you've got it, you want to grow it out; when you've grown it out, you want to cut it.
    Billy Childish
    English painter, author, poet and photographer (1959 - )
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  • Cab Calloway A movie and a stage show are two entirely different things. A picture, you can do anything you want. Change it, cut out a scene, put in a scene, take a scene out. They don't do that on stage.
    Cab Calloway
    American jazz singer, dancer, bandleader and actor (1907 - 1994)
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