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  • Winston Churchill Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory there is no survival.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Frederick Douglass We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.
    Frederick Douglass
    African-American social reformer, abolitionist, orator and writer (1818 - 1895)
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  • Barbra Streisand Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?
    Barbra Streisand
    American singer, songwriter, actress, and filmmaker (1942 - )
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  • William Shakespeare With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Mahatma Gandhi
    When restraint and courtesy are added to strength, the latter becomes irresistible.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • Bernard Bailyn That by 1774 the final crisis of the constitution, brought on by political and social corruption, had been reached was, to most informed colonists, evident;
    The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution Ch. IV, THE LOGIC OF REBELLION, p. 132
    Bernard Bailyn
    American historian, author, and academic (1922 - 2020)
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  • Guillaume Apollinaire ''Come to the edge,'' He said. They said, ''We are afraid.'' ''Come to the edge,'' He said. They cam. He pushed them... and they flew.
    Guillaume Apollinaire
    Italian-born French poet, critic (1880 - 1918)
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  • John Abbott ''How do you know so much about everything?'' was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was ''By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant.
    John Abbott
    Canadian lawyer and politician (1821 - 1893)
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  • Alexander Maclaren ''The grace of God,'' says Luther, ''is like a flying summer shower.'' It has fallen upon more than one land, and passed on. Judea had it, and lies barren and dry. These Asiatic coasts had it, and flung it away.
    Alexander Maclaren
    British preacher (1826 - 1910)
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  • Caroline Shaw 'Partita' is a simple piece. Born of a love of surface and structure, of the human voice, of dancing and tired ligaments, of music, and of our basic desire to draw a line from one point to another.
    Caroline Shaw
    American violinist, singer and composer (1982 - )
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  • Antony Jay 'Referring the matter to a committee' can be a device for diluting authority, diffusing responsibility and delaying decisions.
    Antony Jay
    English writer, broadcaster, and director (1930 - 2016)
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  • W. M. Thackeray 'Tis strange what a man may do, and a woman yet think him an angel.
    W. M. Thackeray
    Indian-born, British novelist (1811 - 1863)
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  • Sir James Matthew Barrie .. it's a sort of bloom on a woman. If you have it you don't need to have anything else; and if you don't have it, it doesn't much matter what else you have.
    Sir James Matthew Barrie
    British playwright (1860 - 1937)
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  • Beatrice Webb ... if I had been a man, self-respect, family pressure and the public opinion of my class would have pushed me into a money-making profession; as a mere woman I could carve out a career of disinterested research.
    Beatrice Webb
    English sociologist and economist (1858 - 1943)
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  • Bob Saget 25, 30 years ago, that meant something, they were making some money. And they were doing all sorts of comedy, screaming at the audience, basically crowd control. And then there was the whole urban comedy scene.
    Bob Saget
    American stand-up comedian, actor, television host and director (1956 - 2022)
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  • Maya Angelou A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.
    Maya Angelou
    African-American poet and writer (1928 - 2014)
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  • Bill Watterson A box of new crayons! Now they're all pointy, lined up in order, bright and perfect. Soon they'll be a bunch of ground down, rounded, indistinguishable stumps, missing their wrappers and smudged with other colors. Sometimes life seems unbearably tragic.
    Bill Watterson
    American cartoonist (1958 - )
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  • Robert Benchley A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.
    Robert Benchley
    American humorist, criticus (1889 - 1945)
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  • William James A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Alice Meynell A child is beset with long traditions. And his infancy is so old, so old, that the mere adding of years in the life to follow will not seem to throw it further back - it is already so far.
    Alice Meynell
    British poet, writer (1847 - 1922)
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