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  • Edward Bulwer-Lytton The world thinks eccentricity in great things is genius, but in small things, only crazy.
    Edward Bulwer-Lytton
    English writer and poet (1803 - 1873)
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  • Samuel Butler The world will only, in the end, follow those who have despised as well as served it.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Oscar Wilde The worst form of tyranny the world has ever known the tyranny of the weak over the strong. It is the only tyranny that lasts.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Samuel Johnson The wretched have no compassion, they can do good only from strong principles of duty.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Boris Pasternak The writer is the Faust of modern society, the only surviving individualist in a mass age. To his orthodox contemporaries he seems a semi-madman.
    Boris Pasternak
    Russian writer (1890 - 1960)
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  • Walter Savage Landor The writing of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander.
    Walter Savage Landor
    British poet (1775 - 1864)
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  • Bernard Mandeville Then leave Complaints: Fools only strive
    To make a Great an Honest Hive.
    T'enjoy the World's Conveniences,
    Be fam'd in War, yet live in Ease,
    Without great Vices, is a vain
    Eutopia seated in the Brain.
    The Fable of the Bees The Moral, line 1, p. 23
    Bernard Mandeville
    British writer and artist (1670 - 1733)
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  • B. W. Powe Then there were his encounters with the two mystics. Trudeau met Mounier only once, according to the Nemnis; and according to John English, he had only one direct encounter with Teilhard de Chardin.
    Mystic Trudeau - The Fire And the Rose Substance, Pressure, Beyond, Pulse in Matter, p. 2
    B. W. Powe
    Canadian poet, novelist and teacher (1955 - )
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  • Hosea Ballou Theories are always very thin and insubstantial, experience only is tangible.
    Hosea Ballou
    American Theologian, Founder of ''Universalism'' (1771 - 1852)
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  • Bhumibol Adulyadej There also is the plight that comes from natural disasters; these natural disasters could be alleviated or dealt with; we only need some time to do it.
    Bhumibol Adulyadej
    Thai King (1927 - 2016)
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  • Billie Joe Armstrong There are a lot of bands who claim to be punk and they only play the music, they have no clue what it's all about. It's a lifestyle. It's not about popularity and all that crap.
    Billie Joe Armstrong
    American singer, songwriter, musician, record producer, and actor (1972 - )
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  • A. Bartlett Giamatti There are a lot of people who know me who can't understand for the life of them why I would got to work on something as unserious as baseball. If they only knew.
    A. Bartlett Giamatti
    American professor and president of Yale University (1938 - 1989)
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  • Carlos Ghosn There are always lessons that can be learned from another manufacturer. You can learn from their successes and from their mistakes also. But you cannot replicate; you can only learn.
    Carlos Ghosn
    Brazilian-born businessman (1954 - )
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  • Jean Paul Getty There are always opportunities through which businessmen can profit handsomely if they will only recognize and seize them.
    Jean Paul Getty
    American-born British industrialist, founder of Getty Oil Company (1892 - 1976)
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  • Gita Bellin There are always risks in freedom. The only risk in bondage is breaking free.
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  • Vladimir Nabokov There are aphorisms that, like airplanes, stay up only while they are in motion.
    Vladimir Nabokov
    American writer and poet (1899 - 1977)
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  • Samuel Johnson There are charms made only for distance admiration.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Pamela Hansford Johnson There are few things more disturbing than to find, in somebody we detest, a moral quality which seems to us demonstrably superior to anything we ourselves possess. It augurs not merely an unfairness on the part of creation, but a lack of artistic judgment. Sainthood is acceptable only in saints.
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  • Dale Carnegie There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.
    Dale Carnegie
    American writer and lecturer (1888 - 1955)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton There are many definite methods, honest and dishonest, which make people rich; the only ''instinct'' I know of which does it is that instinct which theological Christianity crudely describes as ''the sin of avarice.''
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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