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  • Samuel Smiles Men often discover their affinity to each other by the mutual love they have for a book.
    Samuel Smiles
    Scottish writer (1812 - 1904)
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  • Virginia Woolf Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Bobbie Ann Mason Most of the time I was in the Northeast, I lived in the country, and I think that helped me to discover my material for writing.
    Bobbie Ann Mason
    American novelist and short story writer
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  • Henry Louis Mencken No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Thomas Wolfe Not even the most powerful organs of the press, including Time, Newsweek, and The New York Times, can discover a new artist or certify his work and make it stick. They can only bring you the scores.
    Thomas Wolfe
    American writer and journalist (1900 - 1938)
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  • Marilyn French Nothing is ever simple. What do you do when you discover you like parts of the role you're trying to escape?
    Marilyn French
    American radical feminist author (1929 - 2009)
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  • Oscar Wilde Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Barry Ritholtz Often, investors will discover a manager after he's had a terrific run, usually when he lands on a magazine cover somewhere. Invariably, funds swell up with new investor money just before they revert to their long-term averages.
    Barry Ritholtz
    American author and newspaper columnist
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  • Alberto Giacometti Once the object has been constructed, I have a tendency to discover in it, transformed and displaced, images, impressions, facts which have deeply moved me.
    Alberto Giacometti
    Swiss sculptor, painter, draftsman and printmaker (1901 - 1966)
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  • Garrison Keillor One day Donald Trump will discover that he is owned by Lutheran Brotherhood and must re negotiate his debt load with a committee of silent Norwegians who don't understand why anyone would pay more than $120.00 for a suit.
    Garrison Keillor
    American humoristic writer (1942 - )
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  • Henry David Thoreau One may discover a new side to his most intimate friend when for the first time he hears him speak in public. He will be stranger to him as he is more familiar to the audience. The longest intimacy could not foretell how he would behave then
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Blaise Pascal One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better.
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Carl Sandburg One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude.
    Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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  • Warren Buffett Only when the tide goes out do you discover who's been swimming naked.
    Warren Buffett
    American investment entrepreneur (1930 - )
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  • Richard Buckminster Fuller Our brains deal exclusively with special-case experiences. Only our minds are able to discover the generalized principles operating without exception in each and every special-experience case which if detected and mastered will give knowledgeable advantage in all instances.
    Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth (1963)
    Richard Buckminster Fuller
    American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, and inventor (1895 - 1983)
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  • Antisthenes Pay attention to your enemies for they are the first to discover your mistakes.
    Antisthenes
    Greek philosopher (445 - 365)
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  • Billie Joe Armstrong People are so damned afraid that one day they might wake up and discover that they've grown old.
    Billie Joe Armstrong
    American singer, songwriter, musician, record producer, and actor (1972 - )
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  • Eric Hoffer Perhaps our originality manifests itself most strikingly in what we do with that which we did not originate. To discover something wholly new can be a matter of chance, of idle tinkering, or even of the chronic dissatisfaction of the untalented.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Carl Sagan Personally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and others, if it gave me a chance to discover how history turns out.
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Jonathan Swift Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own; which is the chief reason for that kind of reception it meets in the world, and that so very few are offended with it.
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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