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  • Harry Emerson Fosdick Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
    Harry Emerson Fosdick
    American minister (1878 - 1969)
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  • Bruce Springsteen Have you ever seen a one trick pony in the field so happy and free?
    If you've ever seen a one trick pony then you've seen me
    Have you ever seen a one-legged dog making his way down the street?
    If you've ever seen a one-legged dog then you've seen me.
    Working On A Dream (2009) The Wrestler
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Barbara Castle He described how, as a boy of 14, his dad had been down the mining pit, his uncle had been down the pit, his brother had been down the pit, and of course he would go down the pit.
    Barbara Castle
    British Labour Party politician (1910 - 2002)
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  • Carole King He moved with some uncertainty, as if he didn't know
    Just what he was there for, or where he ought to go
    Once he reached for something golden hanging from a tree
    And his hand come down empty...
    Tapestry (1971)
    Carole King
    American singer-songwriter (1942 - )
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  • Francis Bacon He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson He then learns that in going down into the secrets of his own mind he has descended into the secrets of all minds.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Lord George Byron He who surpasses or subdues mankind, must look down on the hate of those below.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Anna Quindlen Here is the real domino theory - gay man to gay man, bisexual man to straight woman, addict mother to newborn baby, they all fall down and someday it will come to you.
    Anna Quindlen
    American author and journalist (1952 - )
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  • Anthony Weiner Here we have been sitting down for a brief moment and you are already asking me if there are pictures of me in my drawers.
    Anthony Weiner
    American politician (1964 - )
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  • Sean O'Casey Here, with whitened hair, desires failing, strength ebbing out of him, with the sun gone down and with only the serenity and the calm warning of the evening star left to him, he drank to Life, to all it had been, to what it was, to what it would be. Hurrah!
    Sean O'Casey
    Irish Dramatist (1880 - 1964)
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  • Sir William Watson His friends he loved. His direst earthly foes - cats - I believe he did but feign to hate. My hand will miss the insinuated nose, mine eyes the tail that wagg'd contempt at Fate.
    Sir William Watson
    English poet (1858 - 1935)
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  • Buddha His success may be great, but be it ever so great the wheel of fortune may turn again and bring him down into the dust.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • Sir Walter Raleigh Historians desiring to write the actions of men, ought to set down the simple truth, and not say anything for love or hatred; also to choose such an opportunity for writing as it may be lawful to think what they will, and write what they think, which is a rare happiness of the time.
    Sir Walter Raleigh
    British courtier, writer (1552 - 1618)
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  • Hubert Humphrey History teaches us that the great revolutions aren't started by people who are utterly down and out, without hope and vision. They take place when people begin to live a little better - and when they see how much yet remains to be achieved.
    Hubert Humphrey
    American politician (1911 - 1978)
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  • Miguel de Cervantes Hold you there, neither a strange hand nor my own, neither heavy nor light shall touch my bum.
    Miguel de Cervantes
    Spanish writer and poet (1547 - 1616)
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  • Dorothy Parker Hollywood money isn't money. It's congealed snow, melts in your hand, and there you are.
    Dorothy Parker
    American humoristic writer (1893 - 1967)
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  • Akhenaton Honor is the inner garment of the Soul; the first thing put on by it with the flesh, and the last it layeth down at its separation from it.
    Akhenaton
    Egyptian King, Monotheist (1372 - 1337)
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  • William Wordsworth How does the Meadow flower its bloom unfold? Because the lovely little flower is free down to its root, and in that freedom bold.
    William Wordsworth
    English poet (1770 - 1850)
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  • John Milton How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! how glad would lay me down, as in my mother's lap! There I should rest, and sleep secure.
    John Milton
    English poet, polemicist and man of letters (1608 - 1674)
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  • Olympia Brown How natural that the errors of the ancient should be handed down and, mixing with the principles and system which Christ taught, give to us an adulterated Christianity.
    Olympia Brown
    American minister and suffragist (1835 - 1926)
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