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  • Theodore Roosevelt The men and women who have the right ideals... are those who have the courage to strive for the happiness which comes only with labor and effort and self-sacrifice, and those whose joy in life springs in part from power of work and sense of duty.
    Theodore Roosevelt
    American statesman (1858 - 1919)
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  • John Keats The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothing -to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts. Not a select party.
    John Keats
    English poet (1795 - 1821)
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  • Alfred Adler The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well.

    Alfred Adler
    Austrian psychiatrist (1870 - 1937)
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  • Lester Bangs The only questions worth asking today are whether humans are going to have any emotions tomorrow, and what the quality of life will be if the answer is no.
    Lester Bangs
    American music journalist, critic and author (1948 - 1982)
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  • Bernard Mandeville The only thing of weight that can be said against modern honor is that it is directly opposite to religion. The one bids you bear injuries with patience, the other tells you if you don't resent them, you are not fit to live.
    Bernard Mandeville
    British writer and artist (1670 - 1733)
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  • Eugene McCarthy The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.
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  • Peter F. Drucker The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.
    Peter F. Drucker
    American management consultant and writer (1909 - 2005)
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  • Hervey Allen The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.
    Hervey Allen
    American author (1889 - 1949)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The only way to have a friend is to be one.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Al Sharpton The promise of America is one immigration policy for all who seek to enter our shores, whether they come from Mexico, Haiti or Canada, there must be one set of rules for everybody. We cannot welcome those to come and then try and act as though any culture will not be respected or treated inferior. We cannot look at the Latino community and preach 'one language.' No one gave them an English test before they sent them to Iraq to fight for America.
    Al Sharpton
    American civil rights activist, Baptist minister and talk show host (1954 - )
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  • Giuseppe Mazzini The republic, as I at least understand it, means association, of which liberty is only an element, a necessary antecedent. It means association, a new philosophy of life, a divine Ideal that shall move the world, the only means of regeneration vouchsafed to the human race.
    Giuseppe Mazzini
    Italian writer (1805 - 1872)
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  • Carl Sandburg The scholars and poets of an earlier time can be read only with a dictionary to help.
    Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The spirit of our American radicalism is destructive and aimless; it is not loving; it has no ulterior and divine ends; but is destructive only out of hatred and selfishness.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Robert Louis Stevenson There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.
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    Robert Louis Stevenson
    Scottish writer and poet (1850 - 1894)
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  • Roland Barthes There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it.
    Roland Barthes
    French writer, literary critic, linguist and philosopher (1915 - 1980)
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  • Aristotle Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • John Steinbeck Time is the only critic without ambition.
    John Steinbeck
    American author (1902 - 1968)
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  • Henry David Thoreau To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity, and trust. It is to solve some of the problems of life, not only theoretically, but practically.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illuminate only the track it has passed.
    Samuel Taylor Coleridge
    English poet and critic (1772 - 1834)
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  • La Harpe To teach successfully we must tell all we know, but only what is adaptable to the student.
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