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  • Bruce Barton We pay just as dearly for our triumphs as we do for our defeats. Go ahead and fail. But fail with wit, fail with grace, fail with style. A mediocre failure is as insufferable as a mediocre success. Embrace failure! Seek it out. Learn to love it. That may be the only way any of us will ever be free. Tom Robbins Before you give up hope, turn back and read the attacks that were made on Lincoln.
    Bruce Barton
    American Author, Advertising Executive (1886 - 1967)
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  • Blaise Pascal We sail within a vast sphere, ever drifting in uncertainty, driven from end to end.
    Pensees
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Angela Davis We still have to struggle against the impact of racism, but it doesn't happen in the same way. I think it is much more complicated today than it ever was.
    Angela Davis
    American political activist, philosopher, academic, and author (1944 - )
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  • Bjorn Lomborg We worry about the seemingly ever-increasing number of natural catastrophes. Yet this is mainly a consequence of CNN - we see many more, but the number is roughly constant, and we manage to deal much better with them over time. Globally, the death rate from catastrophes has dropped about fifty-fold over the past century.
    Bjorn Lomborg
    Danish author (1965 - )
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  • Thomas Mann We, when we sow the seeds of doubt deeper than the most up-to-date and modish free-thought has ever dreamed of doing, we well know what we are about. Only out of radical skeptics, out of moral chaos, can the Absolute spring, the anointed Terror of which the time has need.
    Thomas Mann
    German author, critic and Nobel laureate in literature (1929) (1875 - 1955)
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  • Grace Speare Welcome every problem as an opportunity. Each moment is the great challenge, the best thing that ever happened to you . The more difficult the problem, the greater the challenge in working it out.
    Grace Speare
    American author (1927 - )
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  • Calista Flockhart Well, I don't think I've ever consciously come up with tricks and tools to, kind of, hide. I do think I'm a bit more vigilant, in terms of safety issues and things. And sometimes it is kind of nice to try to hold onto your anonymity.
    Calista Flockhart
    American actress (1964 - )
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  • Bruce Jackson Well, I think everybody's a little jealous of the Vietnam Wall, even people from wars that already have good monuments. You have a monument like the Wall and nobody ever forgets your war, you can bet on that.
    Bruce Jackson
    American folklorist, documentary filmmaker and writer (1936 - )
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  • Boyd Rice Well, I use the word Satanist, but I don't know if I ever really considered myself as somebody who's into Satan.
    Boyd Rice
    American musician (1956 - )
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  • Brion James Westerns was why I got into the business. I grew up on a small farm in California and all I ever wanted to do was to play gangsters and cowboys in movies.
    Brion James
    American actor (1945 - 1999)
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  • Margot Asquith What a pity, when Christopher Colombus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it.
    Margot Asquith
    Anglo-Scottish socialite, author, and wit (1864 - 1945)
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  • Raymond Williams What breaks capitalism, all that will ever break capitalism, is capitalists. The faster they run the more strain on their heart.
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  • Hermann Hesse What constitutes a real, live human being is more of a mystery than ever these days, and men - each one of whom is a valuable, unique experiment on the part of nature - are shot down wholesale.
    Hermann Hesse
    German-Swiss writer, poet and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1946) (1877 - 1962)
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  • John Stuart Mill What ever crushes individuality is despotism, no matter what name it is called.
    John Stuart Mill
    English economist (1806 - 1873)
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  • Edmund Burke What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • Hitopadesa What ever is the natural propensity of a person is hard to overcome. If a dog were made a king, he would still gnaw at his shoes laces.
    Hitopadesa
    Indian text in Sanskrit
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  • Edward Bulwer-Lytton What ever our wandering our happiness will always be found within a narrow compass, and in the middle of the objects more immediately within our reach.
    Edward Bulwer-Lytton
    English writer and poet (1803 - 1873)
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  • Hugh Blair What ever purifies the heart also fortifies it.
    Hugh Blair
    Scottish minister of religion, author and rhetorician (1718 - 1800)
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  • Napoleon Hill What ever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
    Napoleon Hill
    American self-help author (1883 - 1970)
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  • Samuel Johnson What ever the motive for the insult, it is always best to overlook it; for folly doesn't deserve resentment, and malice is punished by neglect.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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