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  • Alfred Lord Tennyson No man ever got very high by pulling other people down. The intelligent merchant does not knock his competitors. The sensible worker does not work those who work with him. Don't knock your friends. Don't knock your enemies. Don't knock yourself.
    Alfred Lord Tennyson
    English poet (1809 - 1892)
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  • Tallulah Bankhead No man worth his salt, no man of spirit and spine, no man for whom I could have any respect, could rejoice in the identification of Tallulah's husband. It's tough enough to be bogged down in a legend. It would be even tougher to marry one.
    Tallulah Bankhead
    American actress (1902 - 1968)
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  • Henry Miller No matter how vast, how total, the failure of man here on earth, the work of man will be resumed elsewhere. War leaders talk of resuming operations on this front and that, but man's front embraces the whole universe.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • Abdul Qadeer Khan No money on earth can buy the love and affection that has been given to me by a grateful nation.
    Abdul Qadeer Khan
    Pakistani nuclear physicist (1936 - )
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  • William Wordsworth No motion has she now, no force; she neither hears nor sees; rolled around in earth's diurnal course, with rocks, and stones, and trees.
    William Wordsworth
    English poet (1770 - 1850)
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  • Thomas Jefferson No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Diana Spencer Princess of Wales No one sat me down with a piece of paper and said, “This is what is expected of you. But… I’m lucky enough in the fact that I have found my role… I love being with people.”
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  • Cal Thomas No power on earth is greater than a mind and soul reawakened. Our Constitution begins 'we the people', not 'us the government'.
    Cal Thomas
    American columnist and author (1942 - )
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  • Don DeLillo No sense of the irony of human experience, that we are the highest form of life on earth, and yet ineffably sad because we know what no other animal knows, that we must die.
    (2005)
    Don DeLillo
    American Author (1936 - )
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  • Albrecht Durer No single man can be taken as a model for a perfect figure, for no man lives on earth who is endowed with the whole of beauty.
    Albrecht Durer
    German painter (1471 - 1528)
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  • David Jenkins No statement about God is simply, literally true. God is far more than can be measured, described, defined in ordinary language, or pinned down to any particular happening.
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  • Bessie Smith No time to marry, no time to settle down; I'm a young woman, and I ain't done runnin' around.
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  • Billie Holiday No two people on earth are alike, and it's got to be that way in music or it isn't music.
    Billie Holiday
    American jazz musician and singer-songwriter (1915 - 1959)
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  • Martin Luther King No, no, we are not satisfied, and we will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream.
    Martin Luther King
    American preacher (1929 - 1968)
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  • Albert Einstein No, this trick wont work...How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love?
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Bobby Hull Nobody gives a crap about hockey down here - nobody. I coach kids' hockey down here and you can start to see the disinterest in the game here with the kids.
    Bobby Hull
    Canadian ice hockey player (1939 - )
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  • Barbra Streisand Nobody on this earth has the right to tell anyone that their love for another human being is morally wrong.
    Barbra Streisand
    American singer, songwriter, actress, and filmmaker (1942 - )
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  • Brit Hume Nobody's profitable at this moment, because recession is on; advertising dollars are down, and expenses are way up. So that kind of belies the situation that you would expect, because the ratings are way up everywhere.
    Brit Hume
    American journalist and political commentator (1943 - )
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  • Jonathan Swift Nor do they trust their tongue alone, but speak a language of their own; can read a nod, a shrug, a look, far better than a printed book; convey a libel in a frown, and wink a reputation down.
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • Barbara Demick North Korea's whole idea is to create a crisis to solve a crisis. They're so poor and they're so desperate that they realize that this bombastic rhetoric can drive the South Korean stock market down and get the U.S. in a tizzy. And it's a game they've been playing for many, many years.
    Barbara Demick
    American journalist
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