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  • Booker T. Washington There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.
    Booker T. Washington
    American Black Leader and Educator (1856 - 1915)
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  • Jean de la Bruyère There is no road too long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste; there are no honors too distant to the man who prepares himself for them with patience.
    Jean de la Bruyère
    French writer (1645 - 1696)
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  • Sophocles There is no sense in crying over spilt milk. Why bewail what is done and cannot be recalled?
    Sophocles
    Greek poet (496 - 406)
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  • Joseph Addison There is not, in my opinion, anything more mysterious in nature than this instinct in animals, which thus rise above reason, and yet fall infinitely short of it.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Barbara Howar There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and flattens the stomachs.
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  • Charles Dickens There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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  • Henry Ford There is one rule for the industrialist and that is: Make the best quality of goods possible at the lowest cost possible, paying the highest wages possible.
    Henry Ford
    American industrialist (1863 - 1947)
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  • Robert Louis Stevenson There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.
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    Robert Louis Stevenson
    Scottish writer and poet (1850 - 1894)
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  • Burton Cummings There may be a new album, and there may not. Right now, we're encouraging bootlegging because there have been some great live things that ended up on the Internet. Rather than try to stop it, we like it. If nobody gave a crap about you, they wouldn't bother to bootleg you.
    Burton Cummings
    Canadian musician, singer and songwriter (1947 - )
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  • Bertrand Russell There will still be things that machines cannot do. They will not produce great art or great literature or great philosophy; they will not be able to discover the secret springs of happiness in the human heart; they will know nothing of love and friendship.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • John Erskine There's a difference between beauty and charm. A beautiful woman is one I notice. A charming woman is one who notices me.
    John Erskine
    American educator and author, pianist and composer (1879 - 1951)
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  • Bruce Lipton There's a theory that says that life is based on a competition and the struggle and the fight for survival, and it's interesting because when you look at the fractal character of evolution, it's totally different. It's based on cooperation among the elements in the geometry and not competition.
    Bruce Lipton
    American developmental biologist (1944 - )
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  • Bessie Smith There's nineteen men livin' in my neighborhood, Eighteen of them are fools and the one ain't no doggone good.
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  • Pedro Calderón de la Barca These flowers, which were splendid and sprightly, waking in the dawn of the morning, in the evening will be a pitiful frivolity, sleeping in the cold night's arms.
    Pedro Calderón de la Barca
    Spanish playwright (1600 - 1681)
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  • Boz Scaggs This is a cause that musicians can take to heart because one of our main reasons for being is to share our music with other people, and this takes us to people who probably wouldn't otherwise get to hear music on quite this level.
    Boz Scaggs
    American singer, songwriter, and guitarist (1944 - )
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  • Anna Lindh This is not bad, but the pace of globalisation has surpassed the capacity of the system to adjust to new realities of a more interdependent and integrated world.
    Anna Lindh
    Swedish Social Democratic politician (1957 - 2003)
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  • Benjamin Franklin Those disputing, contradicting, and confuting people are generally unfortunate in their affairs. They get victory, sometimes, but they never get good will, which would be of more use to them.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Henri-Frédéric Amiel Thought is a kind of opium; it can intoxicate us, while still broad awake; it can make transparent the mountains and everything that exists.
    Henri-Frédéric Amiel
    Swiss philosopher and poet (1821 - 1881)
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  • Henry David Thoreau Through want of enterprise and faith men are where they are, buying and selling and spending their lives like servants.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Candice S. Miller Throughout this primary process the voters have vetted each candidate and after a spirited contest they have made clear who they believe is right person to lead our ticket and that is Governor Mitt Romney. I believe they have come to this conclusion because they know that Governor Romney will begin working on day one to turn around our economy.
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