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  • Lao-Tzu A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent upon arriving. A good artist lets his intuition lead him wherever it wants.
    Lao-Tzu
    Chinese philosopher (600 - 550)
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  • Alva Myrdal A great amount has been talked and written about what constitutes a sufficient balance and what really is meant by the concepts of 'balance' and 'deterrence'.
    Alva Myrdal
    Swedish sociologist, diplomat and politician (1902 - 1986)
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  • Walt Whitman A great city is that which has the greatest men and women.
    Walt Whitman
    American poet, essayist, and journalist (1819 - 1892)
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  • Ariel Durant A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within.
    Ariel Durant
    Russian-born American researcher and writer (1898 - 1981)
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  • Jean Genet A great wind swept over the ghetto, carrying away shame, invisibility and four centuries of humiliation. But when the wind dropped people saw it had been only a little breeze, friendly, almost gentle.
    Jean Genet
    French playwright and author (1910 - 1986)
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  • Bobby Bowden A guy's who has all the money he needs and never faced any hard times, he won't have any character. But when you've had it tough and you've had it rough and you thought you were at the end of the rope and you work your way out of it, that's the way you build character.
    Bobby Bowden
    American football coach (1929 - )
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  • Beverly Sills A happy woman is one who has no cares at all; a cheerful woman is one who has cares but doesn't let them get her down.
    Beverly Sills
    American operatic soprano (1929 - 2007)
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  • Barry Ritholtz A hedge fund manager whose clients demand monthly performance reports has different needs than any individual investors with a 20-year time horizon. The needs of that long-term investor differ markedly from someone who is retiring in three years.
    Barry Ritholtz
    American author and newspaper columnist
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  • Andrew Bernstein A hero has faced it all: he need not be undefeated, but he must be undaunted.
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  • Joseph Campbell A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.
    Joseph Campbell
    American mythologist (1904 - 1987)
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  • Ezra Pound A heroic figure... not wholly to blame for the religion that's been foisted on him.
    Ezra Pound
    American poet (1885 - 1972)
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  • Ovid A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace.
    Ovid
    Roman poet (43 - 17)
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  • Helen Rowland A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
    Helen Rowland
    American journalist (1875 - 1950)
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  • Helen Rowland A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
    Helen Rowland
    American journalist (1875 - 1950)
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  • Otto Von Bismarck A journalist is a person who has mistaken their calling.
    Otto Von Bismarck
    German statesman and prime minister (1815 - 1898)
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  • Abraham Lincoln A jury too often has at least one member more ready to hang the panel than to hang the traitor.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Andrew Vachss A kid in an abusive home has far fewer rights than any POW. There is no Geneva Convention for kids.
    Andrew Vachss
    American crime fiction author (1942 - )
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  • Ralph Lauren A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energy to get it done.
    Ralph Lauren
    American designer and entrepreneur (1939 - )
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  • Thomas Wolfe A liberal is a conservative who has been arrested.
    Thomas Wolfe
    American writer and journalist (1900 - 1938)
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  • William Butler Yeats A line will take us hours maybe; Yet if it does not seem a moment's thought, our stitching and unstinting has been naught.
    William Butler Yeats
    Irish poet (1865 - 1939)
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