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  • A. N. Wilson The Royal Family are not like you and me. They live in houses so big that you can walk round all day and never need to meet your spouse. The Queen and Prince Philip have never shared a bedroom in their lives. They don't even have breakfast together.
    A. N. Wilson
    English writer and columnist (1950 - )
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  • Boris Spassky The Soviet Union was an exception, but even there chess players were not rich. Only Fischer changed that.
    Boris Spassky
    Russian chess grandmaster (1937 - )
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  • Ovid The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run even faster if encouraged.
    Ovid
    Roman poet (43 - 17)
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  • James I of England The state of monarchy is the supremest thing upon earth: for kings are not only God's Lieutenants upon earth, and sit upon God's throne, but even by God himself they are called Gods.
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  • Arthur Hays Sulzberger The statesmen still say that we should not interfere in the internal affairs of other nations and yet it is not possible any longer not to interfere, even when we do not mean to do so.
    Arthur Hays Sulzberger
    American newspaper publisher (1891 - 1968)
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  • Bjorn Ulvaeus The story of Jesus is very fascinating. It still has such a tremendous power, even after 2,000 years! We don't really know if he existed as a historical figure.
    Bjorn Ulvaeus
    Swedish songwriter, producer, member of ABBA (1945 - )
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  • Lao-Tzu The supreme excellence is not to win a hundred victories in a hundred battles. The supreme excellence is to subdue the armies of your enemies without even having to fight them.
    Lao-Tzu
    Chinese philosopher (600 - 550)
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  • Joseph Brodsky The surest defense against Evil is extreme individualism, originality of thinking, whimsicality, even - if you will - eccentricity. That is, something that can't be feigned, faked, imitated; something even a seasoned imposter couldn't be happy with.
    Joseph Brodsky
    Russian-born American Poet, Critic (1940 - 1996)
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  • Samuel M. Shoemaker The surest mark of a Christian is not faith, or even love, but joy.
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  • Arthur C. Brooks The system that enables the most people to earn the most success is free enterprise, by matching up people's skills, interests, and abilities. In contrast, redistribution simply spreads money around. Even worse, it attenuates the ability to earn success by perverting economic incentives.
    Arthur C. Brooks
    American social scientist and musician (1964 - )
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  • Carl Gustav Jung The teacher pretended that algebra was a perfectly natural affair, to be taken for granted, whereas I didn't even know what numbers were. Mathematics classes became sheer terror and torture to me. I was so intimidated by my incomprehension that I did not dare to ask any questions.
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Bertrand Russell The theoretical understanding of the world, which is the aim of philosophy, is not a matter of great practical importance to animals, or to savages, or even to most civilized men.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Daniel Day Lewis The thing about performance, even if it's only an illusion, is that it is a celebration of the fact that we do contain within ourselves infinite possibilities.
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  • Beau Bridges The things I enjoy most as I watch the movie are the things that came through without even thinking.
    Beau Bridges
    American actor and director (1941 - )
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  • Billie Joe Armstrong The things that people do now in sports, you can't even believe. These are complete total athletes. To see what human beings can do in the highest level is amazing.
    Billie Joe Armstrong
    American singer, songwriter, musician, record producer, and actor (1972 - )
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  • Adolf Galland The throttles could only move very, very slowly, always watching the temperature, always watching. And even in throttling back, you could bust it, even being very careful.
    Adolf Galland
    German Luftwaffe general (1912 - 1996)
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  • Howard Whitman The trouble comes when we try to fashion our success to the outside world's specifications even though these are not the specifications drawn up in our own hearts. For whom are we succeeding, for ourselves or for somebody else? Success, if it is to be mea
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  • Erica Jong The trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.
    Erica Jong
    American author (1942 - )
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  • Herb Caen The trouble with born-again Christians is that they are an even bigger pain the second time around.
    Herb Caen
    American journalist (1916 - 1997)
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  • Lily Tomlin The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win you're still a rat.
    Lily Tomlin
    American Comedienne (1939 - )
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