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  • Franklin Pierce Adams Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody.
    Franklin Pierce Adams
    American columnist, well known by his initials F.P.A., and wit (1881 - 1960)
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  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau Endurance and to be able to endure is the first lesson a child should learn because it's the one they will most need to know.
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    French writer and philosopher (1712 - 1778)
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  • Benjamin Franklin Energy and persistence alter all things.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • David Herbert Lawrence Ethics and equity and the principles of justice do not change with the calendar.
    David Herbert Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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  • Carl Gustav Jung Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Vaclav Havel Even a purely moral act that has no hope of any immediate and visible political effect can gradually and indirectly, over time, gain in political significance.
    Vaclav Havel
    Czech statesman, writer and former dissident (1936 - 2011)
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  • John Morley Even good opinions are worth very little unless we hold them in the broad, intelligent, and spacious way.
    John Morley
    British journalist, statesman (1838 - 1923)
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  • Arthur Rubenstein Even when I'm sick and depressed, I love life.
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  • Barbara Boxer Every citizen of this country should be guaranteed that their vote matters, that their vote is counted, and that in the voting booth, their vote has a much weight as that of any CEO, any member of Congress, or any President.
    Barbara Boxer
    American politician (1940 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Every fact is related on one side to sensation, and, on the other, to morals. The game of thought is, on the appearance of one of these two sides, to find the other; given the upper, to find the under side.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Mel Brooks Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin. The talent of a writer is his ability to give them their separate names, identities, personalities and have them relate to other characters living with him.
    Mel Brooks
    American actor, writer, producer, director, comedian, and composer (1926 - )
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  • Janet Malcolm Every journalist who is not too stupid or too full of himself to notice what is going on knows that what he does is morally indefensible. He is a kind of confidence man, preying on people's vanity, ignorance, or loneliness, gaining their trust and betraying them without remorse.
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  • Benjamin E. Mays Every man and woman is born into the world to do something unique and something distinctive and if he or she does not do it, it will never be done.
    Benjamin E. Mays
    American Baptist minister and civil rights leader (1894 - 1984)
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg Every man has his moral backside which he refrains from showing unless he has to and keeps covered as long as possible with the trousers of decorum.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Carlos Ghosn Every single time you make a merger, somebody is losing his identity. And saying something different is just rubbish.
    Carlos Ghosn
    Brazilian-born businessman (1954 - )
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  • Edward Bulwer-Lytton Every street has two sides, the shady side and the sunny. When two men shake hands and part, mark which of the two takes the sunny side; he will be the younger man of the two.
    Edward Bulwer-Lytton
    English writer and poet (1803 - 1873)
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  • Luigi Pirandello Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants does not live for the sake of living, without knowing how to live; but he lives so as to give a meaning and a value of his own to life.
    Luigi Pirandello
    Italian poet, playwright and Nobel laureate in literature (1934) (1867 - 1936)
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  • Carol Burnett Everybody I know who is funny, it's in them. You can teach timing, or some people are able to tell a joke, though I don't like to tell jokes. But I think you have to be born with a sense of humor and a sense of timing.
    Carol Burnett
    American actress, comedian, singer, and writer (1933 - )
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  • Italo Calvino Everything can change, but not the language that we carry inside us, like a world more exclusive and final than one's mother's womb.
    Italo Calvino
    Italian writer (1923 - 1985)
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  • Edward Dahlberg Everything ultimately fails, for we die, and that is either the penultimate failure or our most enigmatical achievement.
    Edward Dahlberg
    American novelist, essayist and autobiographer (1900 - 1977)
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