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  • Robert Browning The year's at the spring; And day's at the morn; Morning's at seven; The hill-side's dew-pearled; The lark's on the wing; The snail's on the thorn: God's in his heaven, All's right with the world!
    Robert Browning
    English poet (1812 - 1889)
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  • T. S. Eliot The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.
    T. S. Eliot
    British essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic (1888 - 1965)
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  • Billie Holiday Them that's got shall get
    Them that's not shall lose
    So the Bible said and it still is news
    Mama may have, Papa may have
    But God bless the child that's got his own
    That's got his own.
    God Bless The Child
    Billie Holiday
    American jazz musician and singer-songwriter (1915 - 1959)
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  • Billy Boyd Then there are actors my age like Ethan Hawke, he's in 'Moby Dick,' I love his work. I've been lucky. Alfred Molina, he has real class.
    Billy Boyd
    Scottish actor and musician (1968 - )
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  • B. W. Powe Then there were his encounters with the two mystics. Trudeau met Mounier only once, according to the Nemnis; and according to John English, he had only one direct encounter with Teilhard de Chardin.
    Mystic Trudeau - The Fire And the Rose Substance, Pressure, Beyond, Pulse in Matter, p. 2
    B. W. Powe
    Canadian poet, novelist and teacher (1955 - )
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  • Ernest Hemingway There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention.
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • Victor Hugo There are fathers who do not love their children, but there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson.
    Victor Hugo
    French writer (1802 - 1885)
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  • James Baldwin There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own eyes, and in the eyes of others. Nothing can help that man. What is left of that man flees from what is left of human attention.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Brad Stone There are lots of retailers that are now scrambling to emulate the Amazon model, so Amazon does not have a monopoly on same-day distribution or broad selection or low prices. All that said, there are advantages that accrue to the largest player, so I don't see much in the way of Amazon slowing down.
    Brad Stone
    American journalist (1971 - )
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  • Bob Schaffer There are many hands touching ballots after a voter drops his ballot into the ballot box. There is no guarantee of ballot secrecy for anyone, which makes the whole system vulnerable to intimidation and bribery.
    Bob Schaffer
    American politician (1962 - )
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  • St. Francis de Sales There are no galley-slaves in the royal vessel of divine love - every man works his oar voluntarily!
    St. Francis de Sales
    Bishop of Geneva and is honored as a saint in the Catholic Church (1567 - 1622)
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  • Bruce Lee There are no limits. There are plateaus, but you must not stay there, you must go beyond them. If it kills you, it kills you. A man must constantly exceed his level.
    As quoted in The Art of Expressing the Human Body (1998)
    Bruce Lee
    Chinese-American Actor, Director, Author, Martial Artist (1940 - 1973)
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  • Mark Twain There are only two forces that can carry light to all the corners of the globe... the sun in the heavens and the Associated Press down here.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Antisthenes There are only two people who can tell you the truth about yourself - an enemy who has lost his temper and a friend who loves you dearly.
    Antisthenes
    Greek philosopher (445 - 365)
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  • Mark Caine There are those who travel and those who are going somewhere. They are different and yet they are the same. The success has this over his rivals: He knows where he is going.
    Mark Caine
    American writer
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  • Adolph P. Gouthey There are two great forces in this world - good and evil; and no man is worth his salt unless he has lost and won battle for a principle.
    Adolph P. Gouthey
    American writer
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  • Bill Hybels There are two main principles I've picked up over the years as they pertain to cultivating the type of faith that moves mountains. The first is this: Faith comes by looking at God, not at the mountain. The second is this: God gives us faith as we walk by his side.
    Too Busy Not to Pray
    Bill Hybels
    American church figure and author (1951 - )
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  • Arnold Bennett There can be no doubt that the average man blames much more than he praises. His instinct is to blame. If he is satisfied he says nothing; if he is not, he most illogically kicks up a row.
    Arnold Bennett
    British novelist (1867 - 1931)
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  • Virginia Woolf There can be no two opinions as to what a highbrow is. He is the man or woman of thoroughbred intelligence who rides his mind at a gallop across country in pursuit of an idea.
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • John Locke There cannot be greater rudeness than to interrupt another in the current of his discourse.
    John Locke
    English philosopher (1632 - 1704)
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