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  • Benjamin Franklin The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • D'Amato Cus The hero and the coward both feel the same thing, but the hero uses his fear, projects it onto his opponent, while the coward runs. It's the same thing, fear, but it's what you do with it that matters.
    D'Amato Cus
    American boxing manager and trainer
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe The hero draws inspiration from the virtue of his ancestors.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Henry Ford The high wage begins down in the shop. If it is not created there it cannot get into pay envelopes. There will never be a system invented which will do away with the necessity for work.
    Henry Ford
    American industrialist (1863 - 1947)
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  • Bruce Springsteen The highway is alive tonight
    But nobody's kiddin' nobody about where it goes
    I'm sittin' down here in the campfire light
    With the ghost of old Tom Joad.
    The Ghost Of Tom Joad (1995) The Ghost of Tom Joad
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • E. M. Forster The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will move in a world of the dead. He can only gain that conception through personal experience, and he can only use his personal experiences when he is a genius.
    E. M. Forster
    English novelist, short story writer, essayist and librettist (1879 - 1970)
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  • Richard Cecil The history of all the great characters of the Bible is summed up in this one sentence: They acquainted themselves with God, and acquiesced His will in all things.
    Richard Cecil
    British Evangelical Anglican priest (1748 - 1810)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe The history of mankind is his character.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Emma Goldman The history of progress is written in the blood of men and women who have dared to espouse an unpopular cause, as, for instance, the black man's right to his body, or woman's right to her soul.
    Emma Goldman
    American anarchist (1869 - 1940)
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  • August Strindberg The hood-winked husband shows his anger, and the word jealous is flung in his face. Jealous husband equals betrayed husband. And there are women who look upon jealousy as synonymous with impotence, so that the betrayed husband can only shut his eyes, powerless in the face of such accusations.
    August Strindberg
    Swedish writer (1849 - 1912)
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  • Anais Nin The human father has to be confronted and recognized as human, as man who created a child and then, by his absence, left the child fatherless and then Godless.
    Anais Nin
    French-born American Novelist, Dancer (1903 - 1977)
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  • Voltaire The husband who decides to surprise his wife is often very much surprised himself.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • Bill Hybels The idea that God doesn't care about his children is rooted in a lie, plain and simple.
    Too Busy Not to Pray
    Bill Hybels
    American church figure and author (1951 - )
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  • Henry Louis Mencken The idea that leisure is of value in itself is only conditionally true. The average man simply spends his leisure as a dog spends it. His recreations are all puerile, and the time supposed to benefit him really only stupefies him.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • John Stuart Mill The idea that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of those pleasant falsehoods, which most experience refutes. History is teeming with instances of truth put down by persecution. If not put down forever, it may be set back for centuries.
    John Stuart Mill
    English economist (1806 - 1873)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche The idealist is incorrigible: if he is thrown out of his heaven he makes an ideal of his hell.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Malcolm de Chazal The idealist walks on tiptoe, the materialist on his heels.
    Malcolm de Chazal
    French writer (1902 - 1981)
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  • William S. Gilbert The idiot who praises, with enthusiastic tone, All centuries but this, and every country but his own.
    William S. Gilbert
    English dramatist, poet and illustrator (1836 - 1911)
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  • Washington Irving The idol of today pushes the hero of yesterday out of our recollection; and will, in turn, be supplanted by his successor of tomorrow.
    Washington Irving
    American writer (1783 - 1859)
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  • Carl Gustav Jung The images of the unconscious place a great responsibility upon a man. Failure to understand them, or a shirking of ethical responsibility, deprives him of his wholeness and imposes a painful fragmentariness on his life.
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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