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  • Walter Savage Landor There is nothing on earth divine except humanity.
    Walter Savage Landor
    British poet (1775 - 1864)
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  • Ernest Hemingway There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • Sam Walton There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.
    Sam Walton
    American businessman, founder Wal-Mart Stores (1918 - 1992)
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  • Zig Ziglar There is plenty of room at the top. There's just not enough room to sit down.
    Over the Top: Moving from Survival to Stability, from Stability to Success, from Success to Significance
    Zig Ziglar
    American author, salesman, and motivational speaker. (1926 - 2012)
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  • Mark Twain There it is: it doesn't make any difference who we are or what we are, there's always somebody to look down on! somebody to hold in light esteem, somebody to be indifferent about.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Edward Hoagland There often seems to be a playfulness to wise people, as if either their equanimity has as its source this playfulness or the playfulness flows from the equanimity; and they can persuade other people who are in a state of agitation to calm down and manage a smile.
    Edward Hoagland
    American Novelist, Essayist (1932 - )
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  • Ezra Pound There once was a brainy baboon who always breathed down a bassoon for he said, ''It appears that in billions of years I shall certainly hit on a tune.''
    Ezra Pound
    American poet (1885 - 1972)
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  • Huey Newton There will be no prison which can hold our movement down.
    To Die for the People (2009)
    Huey Newton
    African-American political activist (1942 - 1989)
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  • Bill Bryson There'd never been a more advantageous time to be a criminal in America than during the 13 years of Prohibition. At a stroke, the American government closed down the fifth largest industry in the United States - alcohol production - and just handed it to criminals - a pretty remarkable thing to do.
    Bill Bryson
    American-British author (1951 - )
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  • Don Delillo There's always a period of curious fear between the first sweet-smelling breeze and the time when the rain comes cracking down.
    Don Delillo
    American Author (1936 - )
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  • Bob Dylan There's no black and white, left and right to me anymore; there's only up and down and down is very close to the ground. And I'm trying to go up without thinking about anything trivial such as politics. They has got nothing to do with it. I'm thinking about the general people and when they get hurt.
    Address to the Emergency Civil Liberties Committee (13 December 1963)
    Bob Dylan
    American musician (1941 - )
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  • Douglas Macarthur There's no security on this earth, only opportunity.
    Douglas Macarthur
    American general in WO II (1880 - 1964)
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  • Al Jarreau These songs are old friends I have entertained myself with when I'm washing the dishes, driving to the store and walking down the aisles. The ones that you sing when you're driving in the car and as a singer you always go back to them.
    Al Jarreau
    American singer and musician (1940 - 2017)
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  • Franklin D. Roosevelt These unhappy times call for the building of plans that build from the bottom up and not from the top down, that put their faith once more in the forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid.
    Franklin D. Roosevelt
    American statesman (1882 - 1945)
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  • Adam Smith They are led by an invisible hand to make nearly the same distribution of the necessaries of life, which would have been made, had the earth been divided into equal portions among all its inhabitants, and thus without intending it, without knowing it, advance the interest of the society, and afford means to the multiplication of the species.
    The Theory of Moral Sentiments Part IV (1759)
    Adam Smith
    Scottish Economist (1723 - 1790)
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  • Bobby Fischer They are subhuman. They are the scum of the Earth. When you talk about Jews, you're scraping the bottom of the barrel of humanity.
    Radio Interview, October 16 1999 [22]
    Bobby Fischer
    American chess grandmaster (1943 - 2008)
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  • Bobby Seale They came down on us because we had a grass-roots, real people's revolution, complete with the programs, complete with the unity, complete with the working coalitions, where we crossed racial lines.
    Bobby Seale
    American political activist (1936 - )
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  • Bhumibol Adulyadej They say that a kingdom is like a pyramid: the king on top and the people below. But in this country, it's upside down.
    Bhumibol Adulyadej
    Thai King (1927 - 2016)
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  • Laurence Binyen They shall not grow old, as we that are left grow old.
    Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
    At the going down of the sun, and in the morning,
    We shall remember them.
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  • Callimachus They told me, Heraclitus, they told me you were dead,
    They brought me bitter news to hear and bitter tears to shed.
    I wept, as I remembered, how often you and I
    Had tired the sun with talking and sent him down the sky.
    Epigrams Epigram 2, translation by William Johnson Cory in
    Callimachus
    Ancient Greek poet, critic and scholar
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