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  • Benny Green He would catapult you forward, and that was his intention with the Jazz Messengers. He would take young people with a potential and help them develop a voice as a player and as a writer.
    Benny Green
    American musician
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  • Oscar Wilde He would stab his best friend for the sake of writing an epigram on his tombstone.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Theodor Reik He [Freud] often said three things were impossible to fulfill completely; healing, education, governing. He limited his goals in analytic treatment to brining the patient to the point where he could work for a living and learn to love.
    Theodor Reik
    Austrian-American psychoanalyst (1888 - 1969)
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  • Benjamin Franklin He's a fool that makes his doctor his heir.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • John Williamson He's got the whole world at his feet and he can't find his shoes.
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  • Emily Brontë He's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.
    Wuthering Heights (1847)
    Emily Brontë
    British writer, poet (1818 - 1848)
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  • Brin-Jonathan Butler He's the best practitioner I've ever seen of the Cuban style. But I think that what Rigondeaux sees as an immaculate performance has no corollary to what fans see as a perfect performance. In his mind, to make an opponent look terrible who has been lauded as exciting or favored against him gives him satisfaction.
    Brin-Jonathan Butler
    American journalist and filmmaker
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  • William Shakespeare He's winding up the watch of his wit. By and by it will strike.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Elizabeth Barrett Browning He, in his developed manhood, stood, a little sunburn by the glare of life.
    Elizabeth Barrett Browning
    English poet (1806 - 1861)
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  • Carl Gustav Jung Healing comes only from that which leads the patient beyond himself and beyond his entanglements with ego....
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • John Milton Heaven is as the book of God before us set, wherein to read his wondrous works.
    John Milton
    English poet, polemicist and man of letters (1608 - 1674)
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  • Henry Ward Beecher Heaven will be inherited by every man who has heaven in his soul.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Lyndon B. Johnson Heck by the time a man scratches his behind, clears his throat, and tells me how smart he is, we've already wasted fifteen minutes.
    Lyndon B. Johnson
    American president (1908 - 1973)
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  • Billy Sunday Hell is the highest reward that the devil can offer you for being a servant of his.
    Billy Sunday
    American athlete and evangelist (1862 - 1935)
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  • Horace Help a man against his will and you do the same as murder him.
    Horace
    Roman poet
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  • Virginia Woolf Henry James seems most entirely in his element, doing that is to say what everything favors his doing, when it is a question of recollection. The mellow light which swims over the past, the beauty which suffuses even the commonest little figures of that
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • John Greenleaf Whittier Here Greek and Roman find themselves alive along these crowded shelves; and Shakespeare treads again his stage, and Chaucer paints anew his age.
    John Greenleaf Whittier
    American poet and writer (1807 - 1892)
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  • A. A. Milne Here is Edward Bear, coming downstairs now, bump, bump, bump, on the back of his head, behind Cristopher Robin. It is, as far as he knows, the only way of coming downstairs, but sometimes he feels that there really is another way, if only he could stop bumping for a moment and think about it.
    Winnie-the-Pooh (1926) Ch. 1, opening lines
    A. A. Milne
    English author, writer of the Winnie-the-Pooh books (1882 - 1956)
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  • Anna Quindlen Here is the real domino theory - gay man to gay man, bisexual man to straight woman, addict mother to newborn baby, they all fall down and someday it will come to you.
    Anna Quindlen
    American author and journalist (1952 - )
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  • Andrew Carnegie Here lies a man who knew how to enlist in his service better men than himself.
    Tekst voor zijn eigen grafsteen.
    Andrew Carnegie
    American industrialist (1835 - 1919)
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