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  • Toni Morrison Sometimes what I write on the page frightens me, so I feel free when I write, but I don't feel safe.
    Toni Morrison
    American novelist, essayist, editor (1931 - 2019)
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  • Anna Quindlen Somewhere between a third and a quarter of all people living in America today were born between 1946 and 1965 and if you think you're tired of hearing about us, you should try being one of us.
    Anna Quindlen
    American author and journalist (1952 - )
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  • Susan Cain Spend your free time the way you like, not the way you think you're supposed to.
    Susan Cain
    self-help writer (1968 - )
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  • Bode Miller Sport is born clean and it would stay that way if it was the athletes who ran it for the pleasure of taking part, but then the fans and the media intervene and finish up by corrupting it with the pressure that they exercise.
    Source: Interview with Gazzetta dello Sport, 16 Feb. 2006 [1]
    Bode Miller
    American former World Cup alpine ski racer (1977 - )
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  • Machiavelli States that rise quickly, just as all the other things of nature that are born and grow rapidly, cannot have roots and ramifications; the first bad weather kills them.
    Machiavelli
    Florentine state philosopher (1469 - 1527)
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  • Anne Sophie Swetchine Strength alone knows conflict, weakness is born vanquished.
    Anne Sophie Swetchine
    Russian writer (1782 - 1857)
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  • Felicia D. Hemans Strength is born in the deep silence of long-suffering hearts; not amid joy.
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  • Donald Rumsfeld Success tends to go not to the person who is error-free, because he also tends to be risk-averse. Rather it goes to the person who recognizes that life is pretty much a percentage business. It isn't making mistakes that's critical; it's correcting them and getting on with the principal task.
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  • Casey Stengel Sure I played, did you think I was born at the age of 70 sitting in a dugout trying to manage guys like you?
    Casey Stengel
    American basketbal player and manager (1890 - 1975)
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  • John Gay Sure men were born to lie, and women to believe them!
    John Gay
    British playwright and poet (1685 - 1732)
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  • Horace Take away the danger and remove the restraint, and wayward nature runs free.
    Horace
    Roman poet
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  • John Donne Take me to you, imprison me, for I, except you enthrall me, never shall be free, nor ever chaste, except you ravish me.
    John Donne
    English poet (1572 - 1631)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Take the utmost care to get well born and well brought up.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • John Burroughs Temperament lies behind mood; behind will, lies the fate of character. Then behind both, the influence of family the tyranny of culture; and finally the power of climate and environment; and we are free, only to the extent we rise above these.
    John Burroughs
    American writer (1837 - 1921)
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  • Bliss Carman Thank God for poverty That makes and keeps us free, And lets us go our unobtrusive way, Glad of the sun and rain, Upright, serene, humane, Contented with the fortune of a day.
    Bliss Carman
    Canadian poet (1861 - 1929)
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  • Ben Harper That happens every time I get behind a guitar, regardless of what I'm saying, 'cause music is freedom and being free is the closest I've ever felt to being spiritual.
    Ben Harper
    American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist (1969 - )
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  • Bob Dylan That he not busy being born is busy dying.
    Source: It’s Alright, Ma (I’m Only Bleeding)
    Bob Dylan
    American musician (1941 - )
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  • Barbara Ehrenreich That's free enterprise, friends: freedom to gamble, freedom to lose. And the great thing - the truly democratic thing about it - is that you don't even have to be a player to lose.
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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  • Mark Twain That's what an army is - a mob; they don't fight with courage that's born in them, but with courage that's borrowed from their mass, and from their officers.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Rachel Carson The ''control of nature'' is a phrase conceived in arrogance, born of the Neanderthal age of biology and the convenience of man.
    Rachel Carson
    American marine biologist, author, and conservationist (1907 - 1964)
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