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  • Ben Stein It's really amazing that in the age of unbelief, as a smart man called it, there isn't even more fraud. After all, with no God, there's no one to ever call you to account, and no accounting at all if you can get away with it.
    Ben Stein
    American professor, writer
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  • Bjorn Borg It's tough when you're No. 1. You don't have any private life, you can't even walk anywhere. I think that was one reason why I lost my motivation to play tennis.
    Bjorn Borg
    Swedish tennis player (1956 - )
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  • Ben Gibbard It's trippy to think we have an album that's 10 years old. It's even trippier to think we have a couple of albums older than that.
    Ben Gibbard
    American singer, songwriter and guitarist (1976 - )
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  • Andrew Coyle Bradley Job was the greatest of all the children of the east, and his afflictions were well-nigh more than he could bear; but even if we imagined them wearing him to death, that would not make his story tragic.
    Andrew Coyle Bradley
    American lawyer (1844 - 1902)
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  • Leonardo Da Vinci Just as iron rusts from disuse, even so does inaction spoil the intellect.
    Leonardo Da Vinci
    Italian painter, engineer and musician (1452 - 1519)
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg Just as the performance of the vilest and most wicked deeds requires spirit and talent, so even the greatest demand a certain insensitivity which under other circumstances we would call stupidity.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Bruce Forsyth Just doing any kind of work - even an interview for breakfast television - makes me feel happy.
    Bruce Forsyth
    British presenter, actor, comedian, singer, dancer and screenwriter (1928 - 2017)
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  • Beth Ditto Just like my straight friends, I am repeatedly asked when I plan to have kids, and have been told many times, by various branches of my bloodline, that 'even lesbians can have babies these days.'
    Beth Ditto
    American singer-songwriter and actress (1981 - )
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  • John Betjeman Keep our Empire undismembered guide our Forces by Thy Hand, gallant blacks from far Jamaica, Honduras and Togoland; protect them Lord in all their fights, and even more, protect the whites.
    John Betjeman
    English poet, writer, and broadcaster (1906 - 1984)
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  • J. C. Macaulay Keep your heart right, even when it is sorely wounded.
    J. C. Macaulay
    American clergyman and author (1900 - )
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  • Emanuel Swedenborg Kindness is an inner desire that makes us want to do good things even if we do not get anything in return. It is the joy of our life to do them. When we do good things from this inner desire, there is kindness in everything we think, say, want and do.
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  • Noam Chomsky Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
    Noam Chomsky
    American Linguist, Political Activist (1928 - )
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  • Benjamin N. Cardozo Lawsuits are rare and catastrophic experiences for the vast majority of men, and even when the catastrophe ensues, the controversy relates most often not to the law, but to the facts. In countless litigations, the law Is so clear that judges have no discretion.
    Benjamin N. Cardozo
    American lawyer and jurist (1870 - 1938)
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  • Alice Miller Learning is a result of listening, which in turn leads to even better listening and attentiveness to the other person. In other words, to learn from the child, we must have empathy, and empathy grows as we learn.
    Alice Miller
    Polish-born Swiss psychologist (1923 - 2010)
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  • Herman Melville Let America first praise mediocrity even, in her children, before she praises... the best excellence in the children of any other land.
    Herman Melville
    American author (1819 - 1891)
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  • Baltasar Gracian Let him that hath no power of patience retire within himself, though even there he will have to put up with himself.
    Baltasar Gracian
    Spanish Jesuit and philosopher (1601 - 1658)
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  • Barack Obama Let me even say before I even get inaugurated, during the transition we are going to be having meetings all across the country with community organizations so that you have input into the agenda for the next presidency of the United States of America.
    On December 1, 2007, at Heartland Democratic Forum
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Buddha Let no man think lightly of good, saying in his heart, It will not benefit me. Even by the falling of waterdrops a water-pot is filled; the wise man becomes full of good, even if he gather it little by little.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • John F. Kennedy Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans... tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace, proud of our ancient heritage.
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • Artemus Ward Let us all be happy, and live within our means, even if we have to borrow the money to do it with.
    Artemus Ward
    American writer (1834 - 1867)
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