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  • Sigmund Freud I have found little that is ''good'' about human beings on the whole. In my experience most of them are trash, no matter whether they publicly subscribe to this or that ethical doctrine or to none at all. That is something that you cannot say aloud, or perhaps even think.
    Sigmund Freud
    Austrian psychiatrist (1856 - 1939)
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  • Mahatma Gandhi I have learned through bitter experience the one supreme lesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into energy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that can move the world.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • Malcolm X I have more respect for a man who lets me know where he stands, even if he’s wrong, than the one comes up like an angel and is nothing but a devil.
    3 december 1964
    Malcolm X
    American activist (1925 - 1965)
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  • Katherine Anne Porter I have not much interest in anyone's personal history after the tenth year, not even my own. Whatever one was going to be was all prepared before that.
    Katherine Anne Porter
    American short-story writer (1890 - 1980)
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  • Leonard Cohen I have nothing against the Queen of England. Even in my heart I never resented her for not being Jackie Kennedy. She is, to my mind, a very gallant lady, victimized by whoever it is who designs the tops of her uniforms.
    Leonard Cohen
    Canadian-born American Musician, Songwriter, Singer (1934 - 2016)
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  • Stephen Hawking I have noticed that even people who claim everything is predetermined and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.
    Black Holes and Baby Universes and Other Essays (1993)
    Stephen Hawking
    English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, author and Director (1942 - 2018)
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  • Robert P. O'Brien I have tried - not always successful - to remember this lesson: Even people I dislike have a piece of God. My task is to move the junk out of the way so that I can find it.
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  • Augusten Burroughs I knew that if I wrote a new book every six months or every year, if I continued to read great books, eventually I would write something worthy of publication. I understood I might be in my forties or my fifties or even my sixties, but I felt confident that it would happen.
    Augusten Burroughs
    American writer (1965 - )
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  • Lady Mary Wortley Montagu I know a love may be revived which absence, inconstancy, or even infidelity has extinguished, but there is no returning from a dégoût given by satiety.
    Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
    English writer (1689 - 1762)
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  • Brock Lesnar I know of Conor McGregor. This sport has evolved even from when I first entered the octagon. I think people are finding out that you have to talk the talk, and you have to - more importantly, you have to walk the walk.
    Brock Lesnar
    American professional wrestler (1977 - )
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  • Lorrie Moore I love plays. Even bad ones. I like the fact that actual live, breathing people are standing before you in tense situations that you are not personally responsible for.
    Lorrie Moore
    American writer (1957 - )
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  • Diana Spencer Princess of Wales I love to hold people's hands when I visit hospitals, even though they are shocked because they haven't experienced anything like it before, but to me it is a normal thing to do.
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  • Anne Rice I loved words. I love to sing them and speak them and even now, I must admit, I have fallen into the joy of writing them.
    Anne Rice
    American author of gothic fiction (1941 - 2021)
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  • H. Jackson Brown Jr I never expect to lose. Even when I'm the underdog, I still prepare a victory speech.
    H. Jackson Brown Jr
    American author (1940 - 2021)
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  • H. Jackson Brown Jr I never expect to lose. Even when I'm the underdog, I still prepare a victory speech.
    H. Jackson Brown Jr
    American author (1940 - 2021)
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  • Anthony Doerr I never played inside as a kid - even in the rain I'd go out.
    Anthony Doerr
    American author (1973 - )
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  • Asa Gray I proceed with the proper subject of this discourse; namely, the further changes in scientific belief, which have occurred within my own recollection, even since the time when I first aspired to authorship, now forty- five years ago.
    Asa Gray
    American botanist (1810 - 1888)
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  • Anna Quindlen I realized that, while I would never be my mother nor have her life, the lesson she had left me was that it was possible to love and care for a man and still have at your core a strength so great that you never even needed to put it on display.
    Anna Quindlen
    American author and journalist (1952 - )
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  • Nancy Astor I refuse to admit that I am more than 52, even if that makes my children illegitimate.
    Nancy Astor
    First woman Member of Parliament (1879 - 1964)
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  • Beatrix Potter I remember I used to half believe and wholly play with fairies when I was a child. What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood, tempered and balanced by knowledge and common-sense...
    Journal entry
    Beatrix Potter
    English writer, illustrator and conservationist (1866 - 1943)
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