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  • Jeremy Taylor Habits are the daughters of action, but then they nurse their mother, and produce daughters after her image, but far more beautiful and prosperous.
    Jeremy Taylor
    British churchman and writer (1613 - 1667)
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  • Ursula K. Le Guin He is far too intelligent to become really cerebral.
    Ursula K. Le Guin
    American writer of science fiction and fantasy books (1929 - 2018)
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  • Samuel Johnson He that thinks he can afford to be negligent is not far from being poor.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Arlen Specter Heart disease continues to be the number one killer; cancer, the number 2 killer, not far behind. The tragic aspect of these deadly diseases is that they could all be cured, I do believe, if we had sufficient funding.
    Arlen Specter
    American lawyer, author, and politician (1930 - 2012)
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  • Emily Dickinson Heaven is so far of the mind that were the mind dissolved - the site of it by architect could not again be proved.
    Emily Dickinson
    American poet (1830 - 1886)
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  • C. A. R. Hoare Here is a language so far ahead of its time, that it was not only an improvement on its predecessors, but also on nearly all its successors.
    Hints on Programming Language Design, December 1973
    C. A. R. Hoare
    British computer scientist
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  • A. A. Milne Here is Edward Bear, coming downstairs now, bump, bump, bump, on the back of his head, behind Cristopher Robin. It is, as far as he knows, the only way of coming downstairs, but sometimes he feels that there really is another way, if only he could stop bumping for a moment and think about it.
    Winnie-the-Pooh (1926) Ch. 1, opening lines
    A. A. Milne
    English author, writer of the Winnie-the-Pooh books (1882 - 1956)
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  • Abraham Cowley Here tears and sighs speak his imperfect moan, In language far more moving than his own.
    Abraham Cowley
    English poet (1618 - 1667)
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  • Cass Sunstein Here's a more controversial idea: In general, Democrats and progressives ought to allow Trump considerable room to choose his own employees - far more room than Republicans allowed during the Obama administration. Tit-for-tat is a dangerous game.
    Cass Sunstein
    American legal scholar (1954 - )
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  • Beth Ditto High school wasn't so bad though because, by then, I had worked out that there were far more nerdy kids and poor kids than there were rich, popular kids, so, at the very least, we had them outnumbered.
    Beth Ditto
    American singer-songwriter and actress (1981 - )
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  • Ben Bernanke Honest error in the face of complex and possibly intractable problems is a far more important source of bad results than are bad motives.
    Ben Bernanke
    American economist (1953 - )
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  • Zig Ziglar Honesty and integrity are by far the most important assets of an entrepreneur.
    Zig Ziglar
    American author, salesman, and motivational speaker. (1926 - 2012)
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  • William Butler Yeats How far away the stars seem, and how far is our first kiss, and ah, how old my heart.
    William Butler Yeats
    Irish poet (1865 - 1939)
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  • Philip Roth How far back must we go to discover the beginning of trouble?
    Philip Roth
    American Novelist (1933 - 2018)
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  • William Shakespeare How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good dead in a naughty world.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Harry S. Truman How far would Moses have gone if he had taken a poll in Egypt?
    Harry S. Truman
    American president (1884 - 1972)
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  • George Washington Carver How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because some day in life you will have been all these.
    George Washington Carver
    American botanist and inventor (1864 - 1943)
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  • Ernest Hemingway How simple the writing of literature would be if it were only necessary to write in another way what has been well written. It is because we have had such great writers in the past that a writer is driven far out past where he can go, out to where no one can help him.
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • Lewis Mumford However far modern science and techniques have fallen short of their inherent possibilities, they have taught mankind at least one lesson: Nothing is impossible.
    Lewis Mumford
    American social philosopher (1895 - 1990)
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  • Abraham H. Maslow Human beings seem to be far more autonomous and self-governed than modern psychological theory allows for.
    Motivation and Personality (1954) p. 123
    Abraham H. Maslow
    American psychologist (1908 - 1970)
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