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  • Bayard Taylor The Prophet's words were true; The mouth of Ali is the golden door Of Wisdom. When his friends to Ali bore These words, he smiled and said: And should they ask The same until my dying day, the task Were easy; for the stream from Wisdom's well, Which God supplies, is inexhaustible.
    Bayard Taylor
    American poet, travel author, and diplomat (1825 - 1878)
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  • Brendan Francis The prospect of success in achieving our most cherished dream is not without its terrors. Who is more deprived and alone than the man who has achieved his dream?
    Brendan Francis
    Irish poet and writer (1923 - 1964)
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  • Fulton J. Sheen The proud man counts his newspaper clippings, the humble man his blessings.
    Fulton J. Sheen
    American bishop (1895 - 1979)
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  • Dan Qualye The question in life is not whether you get knocked down. You will. The question is, are you ready to get back up... and fight for what you believe in.
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  • Joseph A. Schumpeter The question that is so clearly in many potential parents minds: ''Why should we stunt our ambitions and impoverish our lives in order to be insulted and looked down upon in our old age?''
    Joseph A. Schumpeter
    Austrian-American economist (1883 - 1950)
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  • A. E. Housman The rainy Pleiads wester,
    Orion plunges prone,
    The stroke of midnight ceases,
    And I lie down alone.
    More Poems (1936) No. 11, st. 1
    A. E. Housman
    British poet (1859 - 1936)
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  • Lord George Byron The reading or non-reading a book will never keep down a single petticoat.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Adam Smith The real and effectual discipline which is exercised over a workman is that of his customers. It is the fear of losing their employment which restrains his frauds and corrects his negligence.
    Adam Smith
    Scottish Economist (1723 - 1790)
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  • Sir Joshua Reynolds The real character of a man is found out by his amusements.
    Sir Joshua Reynolds
    British painter (1723 - 1792)
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  • Bill Dedman The real Representative McDermott said Jason McDermott is no relation. The Congressman does have a son, but his name is James and he does not live in the Midwest.
    Bill Dedman
    American journalist (1960 - )
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  • Albert Szent-Gyorgyi The real scientist is ready to bear privation and, if need be, starvation rather than let anyone dictate to him which direction his work must take.
    Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
    Hungarian physician and Nobel Prize winner in Medicine (1893 - 1986)
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  • R. W. Dale The real truth is that while He came to preach the gospel, His chief object in coming was that there might be a gospel to preach.
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  • James Baldwin The real victim of bigotry is the white man who hides his weakness under his myth of superiority.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Henry David Thoreau The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Bob Schaffer The recent history of Ukraine is replete with dead journalists, beaten journalists, news agencies being shut down, and politicians being injured or killed. Most are killed in mysterious auto accidents.
    Bob Schaffer
    American politician (1962 - )
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  • Camille Paglia The reform of a college English department cuts no ice down at the corner garage.
    Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • I Ching The responses of human beings vary greatly under dangerous circumstances. The strong man advances boldly to meet them head on. The weak man grows agitated. But the superior man stands up to fate, endures resolutely in his inner certainty If ignorant both
    I Ching
    Chinese classical text (Book of Changes)
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  • Abraham Joshua Heschel The riches of the soul are stored up in its memory. this is the test of character, not whether a man follows the daily fashion, but whether the past is alive in his present.
    Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity: Essays (1997) p. 333
    Abraham Joshua Heschel
    Polish-American rabbi (1907 - 1972)
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  • Richard Brinsley Sheridan The right honorable gentlemen is indebted to his memory for his jokes and his imagination for his facts.
    Richard Brinsley Sheridan
    Anglo-Irish dramatist (1751 - 1816)
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  • Daniel Webster The right of an inventor to his invention is no monopoly; in any other sense than a man's house is a monopoly.
    Daniel Webster
    American lawyer and statesman (1782 - 1852)
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