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  • Igor Stravinsky In the course of your work, you will from time to time encounter the situation where the facts and the theory do not coincide. In such circumstances, young gentlemen, it is my earnest advice to respect the facts.
    Igor Stravinsky
    Russian composer (1882 - 1971)
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  • Henry David Thoreau At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable, that land and sea be infinitely wild, unsurveyed and unfathomed by us because unfathomable.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Henry David Thoreau I have lived some thirty-odd years on this planet, and I have yet to hear the first syllable of valuable or even earnest advice from my seniors.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • William James Act in earnest and you will become earnest in all you do.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Samuel Johnson At seventy-seven it is time to be in earnest.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Deeply earnest and thoughtful people stand on shaky footing with the public.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Barbara Demick For a North Korean watcher, seeing 'The Interview' is like seeing an earnest endeavor reflected back through a freak-show mirror.
    Barbara Demick
    American journalist
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  • Susan Sontag Guns have metamorphosed into cameras in this earnest comedy, the ecology safari, because nature has ceased to be what it always had been - what people needed protection from. Now nature tamed, endangered, mortal - needs to be protected from people.
    Susan Sontag
    American writer, filmmaker, teacher, and political activist (1933 - 2004)
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg He who says he hates every kind of flattery, and says it in earnest, certainly does not yet know every kind of flattery.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • William Lloyd Garrison I am in earnest - I will not equivocate - I will not excuse - I will not retreat a single inch - and I will be heard!
    William Lloyd Garrison
    American abolitionist, journalist and suffragist (1805 - 1879)
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  • Charles Dickens I feel an earnest and humble desire, and shall till I die, to increase the stock of harmless cheerfulness.
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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  • Alfred Russel Wallace I spent, as you know, a year and a half in a clergyman's family and heard almost every Tuesday the very best, most earnest and most impressive preacher it has ever been my fortune to meet with, but it produced no effect whatever on my mind.
    Alfred Russel Wallace
    British naturalist, explorer, anthropologist and biologist (1823 - )
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  • Frederick W. Robertson In God's world, for those who are in earnest, there is no failure. No work truly done, no word earnestly spoken, no sacrifice freely made, was ever made in vain.
    Frederick W. Robertson
    English divine (1816 - 1853)
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  • Barack Obama It took a lot of blood, sweat and tears to get to where we are today, but we have just begun. Today we begin in earnest the work of making sure that the world we leave our children is just a little bit better than the one we inhabit today.
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Life is real! Life is earnest! And death is not its goal. Dust thou art, to dust returneth, was not spoken of the soul.
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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  • Bel Powley Movies make teenagers have quippy answers for every question. Nothing seems to faze them, and they're like, 'Oh, whatever.' You're not like that when you're a teenager. You're really earnest. Things really feel like life or death. And you kind of oscillate between emotions at one time. It's very emotionally draining being a teenager.
    Bel Powley
    English actress (1992 - )
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  • Bernard Mandeville The multitude will hardly believe the excessive force of education, and in the difference of modesty between men and women, ascribe that to nature, which is altogether owing to early instruction: Miss is scarce three years old, but she's spoke to every day to hide her leg, and rebuked in good earnest if she shows it; whilst little Master at the same age is bid to take up his coats, and piss like a man.
    Bernard Mandeville
    British writer and artist (1670 - 1733)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Then indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute; What you can do, or dream you can, begin it.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg To be content with life - or to live merrily, rather -all that is required is that we bestow on all things only a fleeting, superficial glance; the more thoughtful we become the more earnest we grow.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Benjamin Disraeli What is earnest is not always true; on the contrary, error is often more earnest than truth.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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