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  • Tad Williams He who is certain he knows the ending of things when he is only beginning them is either extremely wise or extremely foolish; no matter which is true, he is certainly an unhappy man, for he has put a knife in the heart of wonder.
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  • John Stuart Mill He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that.
    John Stuart Mill
    English economist (1806 - 1873)
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  • Tertullian He who lives only to benefit himself confers on the world a benefit when he dies.
    Tertullian
    Roman Christian author from Carthage (160 - 230)
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  • Olympia Brown He who never sacrificed a present to a future good or a personal to a general one can speak of happiness only as the blind do of colors.
    Olympia Brown
    American minister and suffragist (1835 - 1926)
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  • Harold Wilson He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.
    Harold Wilson
    British Labour politician (1916 - 1995)
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  • Ernest Bramah He who thinks he is raising a mound may only in reality be digging a pit.
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  • Blaise Pascal He who will know fully the vanity of man has only to consider the causes and effects of love.
    Pensees (1669)
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Buffy Sainte-Marie He's five feet two and he's six feet four. He fights with missiles and with spears. He's all of thirty-one and he's only seventeen. He's been a soldier for a thousand years.
    The Universal Soldier (1963)
    Buffy Sainte-Marie
    Indigenous Canadian-American singer-songwriter and musician (1941 - )
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  • Carl Gustav Jung Healing comes only from that which leads the patient beyond himself and beyond his entanglements with ego....
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Bill Flores Healthy marriages are the ones between a man and a woman because they can have a healthy family, and they can raise children in a way that's best for their future, not only socially but psychologically, economically, from a health perspective.
    Bill Flores
    American businessman and politician (1954 - )
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  • Cyril Northcote Parkinson Heat produced by pressure expands to fill the mind available from which it can pass only to a cooler mind.
    Mrs. Parkinsons Law (1968)
    Cyril Northcote Parkinson
    British naval historian (1909 - 1993)
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  • Robert Frost Heaven gives its glimpses only to those not in position to look too close.
    Robert Frost
    American poet (1874 - 1963)
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  • Barry Ritholtz Hedge funds are not especially liquid. Many are 'gated' - meaning there are only small windows when you can withdraw your money. They typically have a high minimum investment and often require investors keep their money in the fund for at least one year.
    Barry Ritholtz
    American author and newspaper columnist
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  • Barbara Kingsolver Her body moved with the frankness that comes from solitary habits. But solitude is only a human presumption. Every quiet step is thunder to beetle life underfoot; every choice is a world made new for the chosen. All secrets are witnessed.
    Prodigal Summer
    Barbara Kingsolver
    American novelist, essayist and poet (1955 - )
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  • Marquis de Sade Here am I: at one stroke incestuous, adulteress, sodomite, and all that in a girl who only lost her maidenhead today! What progress, my friends... with what rapidity I advance along the thorny road of vice!
    Marquis de Sade
    French aristocrat, writer, politician and philosopher (1740 - 1814)
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  • C. A. R. Hoare Here is a language so far ahead of its time, that it was not only an improvement on its predecessors, but also on nearly all its successors.
    Hints on Programming Language Design, December 1973
    C. A. R. Hoare
    British computer scientist
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  • A. A. Milne Here is Edward Bear, coming downstairs now, bump, bump, bump, on the back of his head, behind Cristopher Robin. It is, as far as he knows, the only way of coming downstairs, but sometimes he feels that there really is another way, if only he could stop bumping for a moment and think about it.
    Winnie-the-Pooh (1926) Ch. 1, opening lines
    A. A. Milne
    English author, writer of the Winnie-the-Pooh books (1882 - 1956)
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  • David J. Schwartz Here is the basic rule for winning success. Let's mark it in the mind and remember it. The rule is: Success depends on the support of other people. The only hurdle between you and what you want to be in is the support of other people.
    David J. Schwartz
    American motivational writer and coach (1927 - 1987)
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg Here take back the stuff that I am, nature, knead it back into the dough of being, make of me a bush, a cloud, whatever you will, even a man, only no longer make me.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • John Osborne Here we are, we're alone in the universe, there's no God, it just seems that it all began by something as simple as sunlight striking on a piece of rock. And here we are. We've only got ourselves. Somehow, we've just got to make a go of it. We've only ourselves.
    John Osborne
    English playwright, screenwriter and actor (1929 - 1994)
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