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  • Adam Schiff Each year on the anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s birth, America has the opportunity to reflect on our nation's progress towards the realization of his dream.
    Adam Schiff
    American lawyer and politician (1960 - )
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  • Mel Brooks Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin. The talent of a writer is his ability to give them their separate names, identities, personalities and have them relate to other characters living with him.
    Mel Brooks
    American actor, writer, producer, director, comedian, and composer (1926 - )
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  • Bob Marley Every man gotta right to decide his own destiny.
    Zimbabwe
    Bob Marley
    Jamaican singer-songwriter (1945 - 1981)
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg Every man has his moral backside which he refrains from showing unless he has to and keeps covered as long as possible with the trousers of decorum.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Every man passes his life in the search after friendship.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Carlos Ghosn Every single time you make a merger, somebody is losing his identity. And saying something different is just rubbish.
    Carlos Ghosn
    Brazilian-born businessman (1954 - )
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  • Sir James Matthew Barrie Every time a child says, ''I don't believe in fairies,'' there is a fairy somewhere that falls down dead.
    Sir James Matthew Barrie
    British playwright (1860 - 1937)
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  • Luigi Pirandello Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants does not live for the sake of living, without knowing how to live; but he lives so as to give a meaning and a value of his own to life.
    Luigi Pirandello
    Italian poet, playwright and Nobel laureate in literature (1934) (1867 - 1936)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche Everyone who has ever built anywhere a ''new heaven'' first found the power thereto in his own hell.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Elizabeth Barrett Browning Experience, like a pale musician, holds a dulcimer of patience in his hand.
    Elizabeth Barrett Browning
    English poet (1806 - 1861)
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  • Robert Cecil Day-Lewis First, I do not sit down at my desk to put into verse something that is already clear in my mind. If it were clear in my mind, I should have no incentive or need to write about it. We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand.
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  • Aeschylus For there is no defense for a man who, in the excess of his wealth, has kicked the great altar of Justice out of sight.
    Aeschylus
    Greek dramatist (525 - 456)
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  • Christina Rossetti For there is no friend like a sister in calm or stormy weather; To cheer one on the tedious way, to fetch one if one goes astray, to lift one if one totters down, to strengthen whilst one stands.
    Christina Rossetti
    British poet (1830 - 1894)
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  • Publilius Syrus From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
    Publilius Syrus
    Syrian poet (85 - 43)
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  • Groucho Marx From the moment I picked up your book until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend on reading it.
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    Groucho Marx
    American comic actor (1890 - 1977)
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  • Abraham Lincoln Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Alfred Adler God who is eternally complete, who directs the stars, who is the master of fates, who elevates man from his lowliness to Himself, who speaks from the cosmos to every single human soul, is the most brilliant manifestation of the goal of perfection.
    Alfred Adler
    Austrian psychiatrist (1870 - 1937)
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  • Douglas Adams God's Final Message to His Creation:
    'We apologize for the inconvenience.'
    Douglas Adams
    British science-fiction writer (1952 - 2001)
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  • Louisa May Alcott Happy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged.
    Louisa May Alcott
    American Author (1832 - 1888)
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  • Bhagavad Gita He is not elevated by good fortune or depressed by bad. His mind is established in God, and he is free from delusion.
    Bhagavad Gita
    Indian Hindu storybook
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