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  • Bennett Cerf There have been too many [books] in which some young man is looking forward, backward or sideways in anger. Or in which some Southern youth is being chased through the magnolia bushes by his aunt. She catches him on page 28 with horrid results.
    Bennett Cerf
    American publisher (1898 - 1971)
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  • Brit Hume There have been two Geraldo Riveras through his long career. One of them was a reporter who has done some remarkable work. The other was a television show host who did what it took to get an audience.
    Brit Hume
    American journalist and political commentator (1943 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson There is a certain satisfaction in coming down to the lowest ground of politics, for we get rid of cant and hypocrisy.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Edwin Markham There is a destiny that makes us brothers, No one goes his way alone; All that we send into the lives of others, Comes back into our own.
    Edwin Markham
    American poet and editor (1852 - 1940)
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  • Caitlin Thomas There is a great gulf between the really creative person and normal people. The totally creative person does not have the rest of his life in proper proportion.
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  • Alfred Adler There is a law that man should love his neighbor as himself. In a few hundred years it should be as natural to mankind as breathing or the upright gait; but if he does not learn it he must perish.
    Alfred Adler
    Austrian psychiatrist (1870 - 1937)
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  • E. B. White There is a period near the beginning of every man's life when he has little to cling to except his unmanageable dream, little to support him except good health, and nowhere to go but all over the place.
    E. B. White
    American writer (1899 - 1985)
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  • Boris Johnson There is absolutely no one, apart from yourself, who can prevent you, in the middle of the night, from sneaking down to tidy up the edges of that hunk of cheese at the back of the fridge.
    Face it: its all your own fat fault, Daily Telegraph, 27 May 2004, p. 24.
    Boris Johnson
    British politician and author (1964 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson There is also this benefit in brag, that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means, draw it all out, and hold him to it.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Eric Hoffer There is always a chance that he who sets himself up as his brother's keeper will end up by being his jail-keeper.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Jean Cocteau There is always a period when a man with a beard shaves it off. This period does not last. He returns headlong to his beard.
    Jean Cocteau
    French writer (1889 - 1963)
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  • William James There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Antonin Artaud There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the only solution to the strangulation that life had prepared for him.
    Antonin Artaud
    French producer and actor (1896 - 1948)
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  • Norman Douglas There is in us a lyric germ or nucleus which deserves respect; it bids a man to ponder or create; and in this dim corner of himself he can take refuge and find consolations which the society of his fellow creatures does not provide.
    Norman Douglas
    British Author (1868 - 1952)
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  • Oliver Goldsmith There is no arguing with him, for if his pistol misses fire, he knocks you down with the butt end of it.
    Oliver Goldsmith
    Irish writer and poet (1728 - 1774)
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  • Simonides There is no better test of a man's work than time, which also reveals the thoughts which lay hidden in his breast.
    Simonides
    Greek poet (556 - 468)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson There is no chance, and no anarchy, in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • S. Maxwell Coder There is no doubt that God has often brought a certain verse to the attention of one of His children in an unusual and almost miraculous manner, for a special need, but the Word was never intended to be consulted in a superstitious manner.
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  • Cormac McCarthy There is no God and we are his prophets.
    The Road (2007) 143
    Cormac McCarthy
    American novelist, playwright, short-story writer, and screenwriter (1933 - 2023)
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  • Eric Hoffer There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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