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  • Carl von Clausewitz Never forget that no military leader has ever become great without audacity.
    Carl von Clausewitz
    Prussian general and military theorist (1780 - 1831)
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  • Anatole France Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have left me.
    Anatole France
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1921) (1844 - 1924)
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  • Bernard M. Baruch Never pay the slightest attention to what a company president ever says about his stock.
    Bernard M. Baruch
    American investor, philanthropist, statesman, and political consultant (1870 - 1965)
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  • Alain de Botton Never, ever become a writer. It's a nightmare.
    Alain de Botton
    Swiss-born British author (1969 - )
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  • Carter Burwell New Yorkers may think they're on some cutting edge, but that's not especially true. It is, however, the most exciting heterogeneous mess of a town I've ever seen.
    Carter Burwell
    American composer of film scores (1954 - )
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  • Charles Lamb Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever puts one down without the feeling of disappointment.
    Charles Lamb
    English essayist (1775 - 1834)
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  • Aesop No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.
    Aesop
    Greek fabulist and story teller (620 - 564)
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  • George Orwell No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Albert Einstein No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Arthur Erickson No amount of thought can ever reveal what comes unexpectedly.
    Arthur Erickson
    Canadian architect and urban (1924 - 2009)
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  • Edward Bulwer-Lytton No author ever drew a character consistent to human nature, but he was forced to ascribe to it many inconsistencies.
    Edward Bulwer-Lytton
    English writer and poet (1803 - 1873)
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  • C. M. Ward No Christian has ever been known to recant on his death bed.
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  • Thomas Carlyle No conquest can ever become permanent which does not show itself beneficial to the conquered as well as to the conquerors.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Barbara Ehrenreich No culture on earth outside of mid-century suburban America has ever deployed one woman per child without simultaneously assigning her such major productive activities as weaving, farming, gathering, temple maintenance, and tent-building. The reason is that full-time, one-on-one child-raising is not good for women or children.
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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  • Michael Moore No decisions should ever be made without asking the question, is this for the common good?
    Michael Moore
    American documentary filmmaker, activist, and author (1954 - )
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  • Albert Claude No doubt, man will continue to weigh and to measure, watch himself grow, and his Universe around him and with him, according to the ever growing powers of his tools.
    Albert Claude
    Belgian-American cell biologist and doctor (1899 - 1983)
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  • Greil Marcus No failure in America, whether of love or money, is ever simple; it is always a kind of betrayal, of a mass of shadowy, shared hopes.
    Greil Marcus
    American author, music journalist and critic (1945 - )
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  • John Ruskin No good is ever done to society by the pictorial representation of its diseases.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Ezra Pound No good poetry is ever written in a manner twenty years old, for to write in such a manner shows conclusively that the writer thinks from books, convention and cliché, not from real life.
    Ezra Pound
    American poet (1885 - 1972)
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  • O. Schreiner No good work is ever done while the heart is hot and anxious and fretted.
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