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  • Dwight D. Eisenhower Humility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in the blood of his followers and the sacrifices of his friends.
    Dwight D. Eisenhower
    American president (1890 - 1969)
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  • Victor Borge Humor is something that thrives between man's aspirations and his limitations. There is more logic in humor than in anything else. Because, you see, humor is truth.
    Victor Borge
    Danish-American comedian, conductor, and pianist (1909 - 2000)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken Hygiene is the corruption of medicine by morality. It is impossible to find a hygienist who does not debase his theory of the healthful with a theory of the virtuous. The true aim of medicine is not to make men virtuous; it is to safeguard and rescue them from the consequences of their vices.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Harry S. Truman I always remember an epitaph which is in the cemetery at Tombstone, Arizona. It says: ''Here lies Jack Williams. He done his damnedest.'' I think that is the greatest epitaph a man can have.
    Harry S. Truman
    American president (1884 - 1972)
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  • Havelock Ellis I always seem to have a vague feeling that he is a Satan among musicians, a fallen angel in the darkness who is perpetually seeking to fight his way back to happiness.
    Havelock Ellis
    British psychologist (1859 - 1939)
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  • Clarence Darrow I am a friend of the working man, and I would rather be his friend, than be one.
    Clarence Darrow
    American Lawyer (1857 - 1938)
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  • Stephen Leacock I am a great believer in luck and the harder I work the more of it I have.
    Stephen Leacock
    Canadian humorist and economist (1869 - 1944)
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  • Zsa Zsa Gabor I am a marvelous housekeeper. Every time I leave a man I keep his house.
    Zsa Zsa Gabor
    American actrice (1917 - 2016)
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  • Malcolm X I am a Muslim and my religion makes me be against all forms of racism. It keeps me from judging any man by the color of his skin. It teaches me to judge him by his deeds .
    Malcolm X
    American activist (1925 - 1965)
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  • Arthur Hays Sulzberger I am a non Zionist because the Jew, in seeking a homeland of his own, seems to me to be giving up something of infinitely greater value of the world.
    Arthur Hays Sulzberger
    American newspaper publisher (1891 - 1968)
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  • Andrew Cohen I am already inherently full and complete as I am. Man doesn't need woman and woman doesn't need man in order to experience his or her inherent fullness.
    Andrew Cohen
    American spiritual teacher (1955 - )
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  • Lord George Byron I am as comfortless as a pilgrim with peas in his shoes - and as cold as Charity, Chastity or any other Virtue.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • James Baldwin I am aware that no man is a villain in his own eyes.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Omar N. Bradley I am convinced that the best service a retired general can perform is to turn in his tongue along with his suit, and to mothball his opinions.
    Omar N. Bradley
    American general (1893 - 1981)
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  • Bruno Tonioli I am down-to-earth and not one of those starry, up-their-own-butt celebrities.
    Bruno Tonioli
    Italian choreographer and dancer (1955 - )
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  • Alexander Pope I am his Highness dog at Kew; pray tell me, sir, whose dog are you?
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Martin Luther I am more afraid of my own heart than the Pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great Pope, Self.
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  • Dave Barry I am not the only person who uses his computer mainly for the purpose of diddling with his computer.
    Dave Barry
    American humorist, writer
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  • Bruce Scheneier I am regularly asked what the average Internet user can do to ensure his security. My first answer is usually 'Nothing; you're screwed'.
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  • Virginia Woolf I am to be broken. I am to be derided all my life. I am to be cast up and down among these men and women, with their twitching faces, with their lying tongues, like a cork on a rough sea. Like a ribbon of weed I am flung far every time the door opens.
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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