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  • George Orwell What can you do against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself, who gives your arguments a fair hearing and then simply persists in his lunacy?
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Abraham Lincoln What kills the skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • W. M. Thackeray What money is better bestowed than that of a schoolboy's tip? How the kindness is recalled by the recipient in after days! It blesses him that gives and him that takes.
    W. M. Thackeray
    Indian-born, British novelist (1811 - 1863)
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  • Alexander Pope What nothing earthly gives, or can destroy, I the soul's calm sunshine, and the heartfelt joy, I is virtue's prize.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Bette Davis When a man gives his opinion, he's a man. When a woman gives her opinion, she's a bitch.
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    Bette Davis
    American Actress, Producer (1908 - 1989)
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  • George Orwell When a woman's bumped off, her husband is always the first suspect - which gives you a little side glimpse of what people really think about marriage.
    Coming Up for Air
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Brian Austin Green When somebody gives up their friends and everything they do just to be with a person, they wake up miserable one day. They're denying themselves for no real reason other than they think that's the thing to do.
    Brian Austin Green
    American actor, rapper and producer (1973 - )
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  • T. S. Eliot When we read of human beings behaving in certain ways, with the approval of the author, who gives his benediction to this behavior by his attitude towards the result of the behavior arranged by himself, we can be influenced towards behaving in the same way.
    T. S. Eliot
    British essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic (1888 - 1965)
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  • William Shakespeare When you fear a foe, fear crushes your strength; and this weakness gives strength to your opponents.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Bonnie Tyler Whenever I sing 'Total Eclipse of the Heart,' the way people sing along with me still excites me. It's one of the songs that audiences know all the lyrics to, and they sing along with me, and it makes me so happy. People also know my songs 'Holding out for a Hero' and 'Lost in France,' and this gives me so much joy on stage.
    Bonnie Tyler
    Welsh singer (1951 - )
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  • John Jay Chapman Wherever you see a man who gives someone else's corruption, someone else's prejudice as a reason for not taking action himself, you see a cog in The Machine that governs us.
    John Jay Chapman
    American author (1862 - 1933)
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  • Samuel Johnson Wine gives a man nothing. It neither gives him knowledge nor wit; it only animates a man, and enables him to bring out what a dread of the company has repressed. It only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Abraham Lincoln With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us finish the work ;we are in.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Caroline Wozniacki With the depth of the women's game, the entertainment it gives, and the work we put into it, I think equal pay is right.
    Caroline Wozniacki
    Danish tennis player (1990 - )
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  • Francois René de Chateaubriand Without taste genius is only a sublime kind of folly. That sure touch which the lyre gives back the right note and nothing more, is even a rarer gift than the creative faculty itself.
    Francois René de Chateaubriand
    French poet, writer and politician (1768 - 1848)
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  • Voltaire Woe to the makers of literal translations, who by rendering every word weaken the meaning! It is indeed by so doing that we can say the letter kills and the spirit gives life.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • William Cobbett Women are a sisterhood. They make common cause in behalf of the sex; and, indeed, this is natural enough, when we consider the vast power that the law gives us over them.
    William Cobbett
    British journalist (1763 - 1835)
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  • Stephen Hawking Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it.
    Stephen Hawking
    English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, author and Director (1942 - 2018)
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  • Bernard Pivot You get the feeling that many of my guests feel that the French language gives them entry into a more cultivated, more intelligent world, more highly civilised too, with rules.
    Bernard Pivot
    French journalist and interviewer (1935 - )
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