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  • Earl Rochester Here lies our Sovereign Lord, the King whose word no man relies on: He never said a foolish thing nor ever did a wise one.
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  • John A. Hannah Higher education must lead the march back to the fundamentals of human relationships, to the old discovery that is ever new, that man does not live by bread alone.
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  • Buddha His success may be great, but be it ever so great the wheel of fortune may turn again and bring him down into the dust.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • Charles Dickens Home is a name, a word, it is a strong one; stronger than magician ever spoke, or spirit ever answered to, in the strongest conjuration.
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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  • Dame Edith Sitwell Hot water is my native element. I was in it as a baby, and I have never seemed to get out of it ever since.
    Dame Edith Sitwell
    British poet (1887 - 1964)
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  • Bret Easton Ellis How could she ever understand that there isn't any way could be disappointed since I no longer find anything worth looking forward to?
    American Psycho (2014) 301
    Bret Easton Ellis
    American author, screenwriter, short-story writer, and director (1964 - )
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld How ever a brilliant an action, it should not be viewed as great unless it is the result of a great motive.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Wallace Stevens How has the human spirit ever survived the terrific literature with which it has had to contend?
    Wallace Stevens
    American poet (1879 - 1955)
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  • Robert A. Heinlein Human beings hardly ever learn from the experience of others. They learn; when they do, which isn't often, on their own, the hard way.
    Robert A. Heinlein
    American science fiction writer (1907 - 1988)
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  • Anna Lindh Human rights are praised more than ever - and violated as much as ever.
    Anna Lindh
    Swedish Social Democratic politician (1957 - 2003)
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  • Dick Clark Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law.
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  • Barry Cornwall I 'm on the sea! I 'm on the sea!
    I am where I would ever be,
    With the blue above and the blue below,
    And silence wheresoe'er I go.
    The Sea, reported in Bartletts Familiar Quotations, 10th ed.
    Barry Cornwall
    English poet (pen name of Bryan Procter) (1787 - 1874)
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  • Warren Buffett I always knew I was going to be rich. I don't think I ever doubted it for a minute.
    Warren Buffett
    American investment entrepreneur (1930 - )
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  • Abigail Adams I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature and that power, whether vested in many or a few, is ever grasping, and like the grave, cries, 'Give, give.
    Abigail Adams
    Wife of John Adams (1744 - 1818)
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  • Amy Hempel I am not quite myself, I think. But who here is quite himself? And yet there is a way in which we are all more ourselves than ever, I suppose.
    Rick Moody (2007) 236
    Amy Hempel
    American short story writer and journalist (1951 - )
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  • E. B. White I am often mad, but I would hate to be nothing but mad: and I think I would lose what little value I may have as a writer if I were to refuse, as a matter of principle, to accept the warming rays of the sun, and to report them, whenever, and if ever, they
    E. B. White
    American writer (1899 - 1985)
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  • Alexander Mackenzie I am sure that in Canada the people appreciate this principle, and the general intelligence which prevails over that country is such that I am sure there is no danger of a reactionary policy ever finding a response in the hearts of any considerable number of our people.
    Alexander Mackenzie
    Canadian politician
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  • Bill Clinton I believe I'm a better authority than anybody else in America on my own wife. I have never known a person with a stronger sense of right and wrong in my life ever.
    Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States, William J. Clinton
    Bill Clinton
    President of the US (1946 - )
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  • Anne Hathaway I believe I've always been a big believer in equality. No one has ever been able to tell me I couldn't do something because I was a girl.
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  • Marguerite Duras I believe that always, or almost always, in all childhood and in all the lives that follow them, the mother represents madness. Our mothers always remain the strangest, craziest people we've ever met.
    Marguerite Duras
    French author and filmmaker (1914 - 1996)
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