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  • Napoleon Every private in the French army carries a Field Marshall wand in his knapsack.
    Napoleon
    French Emperor (1769 - 1821)
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  • William Somerset Maugham Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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  • Joseph L. Mankiewicz Every screenwriter worthy of the name has already directed his film when he has written his script.
    Joseph L. Mankiewicz
    American film director, screenwriter, and producer (1909 - 1993)
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  • Virginia Woolf Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Bernard Law Montgomery Every soldier must know, before he goes into battle, how the little battle he is to fight fits into the larger picture, and how the success of his fighting will influence the battle as a whole.
    Bernard Law Montgomery
    British general (1887 - 1976)
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  • Alfred Adler Every therapeutic cure, and still more, any awkward attempt to show the patient the truth, tears him from the cradle of his freedom from responsibility and must therefore reckon with the most vehement resistance.
    Alfred Adler
    Austrian psychiatrist (1870 - 1937)
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  • Sir James Matthew Barrie Every time a child says 'I don't believe in fairies' there is a little fairy somewhere that falls down dead.
    Peter Pan (1904)
    Sir James Matthew Barrie
    British playwright (1860 - 1937)
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  • Germaine Greer Every time a man unburdens his heart to a stranger he reaffirms the love that unites humanity.
    Germaine Greer
    Australian writer and public intellectual (1939 - )
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  • Germaine Greer Every time a woman makes herself laugh at her husband's often-told jokes she betrays him. The man who looks at his woman and says ''What would I do without you?'' is already destroyed.
    Germaine Greer
    Australian writer and public intellectual (1939 - )
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  • Betty Parsons Every time I learn a new thing to do on my computer, I have to write it down so that I can remember it.
    Betty Parsons
    American artist, art dealer, and collector (1900 - 1982)
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  • Carolyn Chute Every time I think I know what's right and wrong, I end up being wrong. All I want to do is explore. I want to see what people would do. I say, 'What would this person do in this situation?' and I write it down. I'm not writing manifestos of my political views.
    Carolyn Chute
    American writer and populist
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  • Bob Beauprez Every time Washington regulators pass down another heavy-handed rule or levy another hefty fine, Colorado loses potential jobs, revenue, and economic security.
    Bob Beauprez
    American politician and member (1948 - )
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  • Ben Shapiro Every time we rock our babies in the night, we bring order back to a disordered world. Every time we look down at our children and cry, we make the world one shade brighter. That's what children do to us - and for us.
    Ben Shapiro
    American conservative political commentator and attorney (1984 - )
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  • Thomas J. Watson Every time we've moved ahead in IBM, it was because someone was willing to take a chance, put his head on the block, and try something new.
    Thomas J. Watson
    American Businessman, Founder of IBM (1874 - 1956)
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  • Charles Dickens Every traveler has a home of his own, and he learns to appreciate it the more from his wandering.
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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  • Jorge Luis Borges Every writer ''creates'' his own precursors. His work modifies our conception of the past, as it will modify the future.
    Jorge Luis Borges
    Argentijns writer (1899 - 1986)
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  • Martin Amis Every writer hopes or boldly assumes that his life is in some sense exemplary, that the particular will turn out to be universal.
    Martin Amis
    British novelist (1949 - 2023)
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  • Joseph Brodsky Every writing career starts as a personal quest for sainthood, for self-betterment. Sooner or later, and as a rule quite soon, a man discovers that his pen accomplishes a lot more than his soul.
    Joseph Brodsky
    Russian-born American Poet, Critic (1940 - 1996)
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  • Brendan Dooling Every young male actor dreams of being James Bond in an action movie. And that's their first role. But the truth is, when it comes down to it, that's not relatable.
    Brendan Dooling
    American actor (1990 - )
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  • Alex Cox Everybody gets a little dose of Shakespeare. He's the greatest playwright in the English language, but his politics are fairly square.
    Alex Cox
    English film director, screenwriter and actor (1954 - )
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