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  • Sydney Smith Heat, ma am! It was so dreadful here that I found there was nothing left for it but to take off my flesh and sit in my bones.
    Sydney Smith
    English writer and cleric (1856 - 1934)
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  • Sun Tzu Hence that general is skilful in attack whose opponent does not know what to defend; and he is skilful in defense whose opponent does not know what to attack.
    Sun Tzu
    Chinese general and strategist (544 - 496)
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  • Sun Tzu Hence to fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.
    Sun Tzu
    Chinese general and strategist (544 - 496)
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  • Carol Bellamy Here once again education is crucial, it enables children to be become more aware of their rights and to exercise them in a respectful manner which helps them shape their own future.
    Carol Bellamy
    American nonprofit executive (1942 - )
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  • Alexis de Tocqueville History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies.
    Alexis de Tocqueville
    French aristocrat, political philosopher and sociologist (1805 - 1859)
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  • B. R. Ambedkar History shows that where ethics and economics come in conflict, victory is always with economics. Vested interests have never been known to have willingly divested themselves unless there was sufficient force to compel them.
    B. R. Ambedkar
    Indian jurist, economist and politician (1891 - 1956)
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  • Harriet Beecher Stowe Home is a place not only of strong affections, but of entire unreserved; it is life's undress rehearsal, its backroom, its dressing room, from which we go forth to more careful and guarded intercourse, leaving behind us much debris of cast-off and everyday clothing.
    Harriet Beecher Stowe
    American Novelist (1811 - 1896)
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  • Barry Hannah Honestly, I envy painters, who can have a masterpiece in one morning. Or musicians, who can write something in 30 minutes and arrange it in an hour, sometimes. 'Cause with this, with writing, you can occasionally feel like a caveman, like you've been working with pitch and tar on this brush.
    Barry Hannah
    American novelist (1942 - 2010)
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  • Charles Caleb Colton Honor is unstable and seldom the same; for she feeds upon opinion, and is as fickle as her food.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Samuel Johnson Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords: but, like all other pleasures immoderately enjoyed, the excesses of hope must be expiated by pain; and expectations improperly indulged must end in disappointment.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Robert Anthony Hope is the expectation that something outside of ourselves, something or someone external, is going to come to our rescue and we will live happily ever after.
    Robert Anthony
    American psychologist and self-help writer
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe How can we know ourselves? Never by reflection, but only through action. Begin at once to do your duty and immediately you will know what is inside you.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Henry David Thoreau How earthy old people become, moldy as the grave! Their wisdom smacks of the earth. There is no foretaste of immortality in it. They remind me of earthworms and mole crickets.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt However great an evil immorality may be, we must not forget that it is not without its beneficial consequences. It is only through extremes that men can arrive at the middle path of wisdom and virtue.
    Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt
    German statesman (1767 - 1835)
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  • Kate Millet However muted its present appearance may be, sexual dominion obtains nevertheless as perhaps the most pervasive ideology of our culture and provides its most fundamental concept of power.
    Kate Millet
    American writer (1934 - 2017)
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  • Adolf Hitler Humanitarianism is the expression of stupidity and cowardice.
    Adolf Hitler
    German politician (1889 - 1945)
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  • Douglas Adams Humans are not proud of their ancestors, and rarely invite them round to dinner.
    Douglas Adams
    British science-fiction writer (1952 - 2001)
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  • Joseph Addison Husband a lie, and trump it up in some extraordinary emergency.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Alex Grey I acknowledge the privilege of being alive in a human body at this moment, endowed with senses, memories, emotions, thoughts, and the space of mind in its wisdom aspect.
    Alex Grey
    American visionary artist, author and teacher
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  • Katherine Mansfield I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.
    Katherine Mansfield
    New Zealand-born British Author (1888 - 1923)
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