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  • Barbara Corcoran My greatest strength as a child, I realize now, was my imagination. While every other kid was reading and writing, I had seven whole hours a day to practice my imagination. When do you get that space in your life, ever?
    Barbara Corcoran
    American businesswoman, investor, speaker and consultant (1949 - )
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  • Peter F. Drucker My greatest strength as a consultant is to be ignorant and ask a few questions.
    Peter F. Drucker
    American management consultant and writer (1909 - 2005)
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  • Katharine Hepburn My greatest strength is... common sense. I'm really a standard brand - like Campbell's tomato soup or Baker's chocolate.
    Katharine Hepburn
    American Actress, Writer (1907 - 2003)
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  • T. S. Eliot My greatest trouble is getting the curtain up and down.
    T. S. Eliot
    British essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic (1888 - 1965)
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  • Brad Meltzer My worst moments as a parent have been much like my greatest moments as a parent: the product of complete and perfect accident.
    Brad Meltzer
    American political thriller novelist and non-fiction writer (1970 - )
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  • Bertrand Russell Next to enjoying ourselves, the next greatest pleasure consists in preventing others from enjoying themselves, or, more generally, in the acquisition of power.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Max Lerner Next to the striking of fire and the discovery of the wheel, the greatest triumph of what we call civilization was the domestication of the human male.
    Max Lerner
    American Author, Columnist (1902 - 1992)
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero No one can be brave who considers pain to be the greatest evil in life, or can they be temperate who considers pleasure to be the highest good.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • André Gide No theory is good unless it permits, not rest, but the greatest work. No theory is good except on condition that one use it to go on beyond.
    André Gide
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1947) (1869 - 1951)
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  • Mahatma Gandhi Non-violence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind. It is mightier than the mightiest weapon of destruction devised by the ingenuity of man.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • Robert Hayden Nothing is so envied as genius, nothing so hopeless of attainment by labor alone. Though labor always accompanies the greatest genius, without the intellectual gift labor alone will do little.
    Robert Hayden
    American poet, essayist, and educator (1913 - 1980)
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  • Albert Einstein Nothing that I can do will change the structure of the universe. But maybe, by raising my voice I can help the greatest of all causes - goodwill among men and peace on earth.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Armstrong Williams Now, one thing I tell everyone is learn about real estate. Repeat after me: real estate provides the highest returns, the greatest values and the least risk.
    Armstrong Williams
    American political commentator, entrepreneur and author (1962 - )
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  • Henry David Thoreau Nowadays the host does not admit you to his hearth, but has got the mason to build one for yourself somewhere in his alley, and hospitality is the art of keeping you at the greatest distance.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Thomas Carlyle Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne Of all the benefits which virtue confers on us, the contempt of death is one of the greatest.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Lin Yü-tang Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother.
    Lin Yü-tang
    Chinese writer (1895 - 1976)
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  • Bhagavad Gita On this path effort never goes to waste, and there is no failure. Even a little effort toward spiritual awareness will protect you from the greatest fear.
    Bhagavad Gita
    Indian Hindu storybook
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  • Thomas Alva Edison One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But speaking for myself, I can honestly say this is not so... I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.
    Thomas Alva Edison
    American inventor and founder of General Electric (1847 - 1931)
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  • Samuel Johnson One of the aged greatest miseries is that they cannot easily find a companion able to share the memories of the past.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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