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  • Joseph Conrad Each blade of grass has its spot on earth whence it draws its life, its strength; and so is man rooted to the land from which he draws his faith together with his life.
    Joseph Conrad
    In Poland born English writer (1857 - 1924)
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  • Marie Carmichael Stopes Each coming together of man and wife, even if they have been mated for many years, should be a fresh adventure; each winning should necessitate a fresh wooing.
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  • Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani Each department and institution has its own authorities and responsibilities, and they act on that basis. It is wrong to even compare such actions to what is done in Guantanamo or elsewhere by the Americans. They do not stand on a high moral platform to preach to others.
    Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
    Iranian politician and writer (1934 - 2017)
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  • Robert Louis Stevenson Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    Scottish writer and poet (1850 - 1894)
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  • Virginia Woolf Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can only read the title.
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Anna Julia Cooper Each is under the most sacred obligation not to squander the material committed to him, not to sap his strength in folly and vice, and to see at the least that he delivers a product worthy the labor and cost which have been expended on him.
    Anna Julia Cooper
    American author, activist and sociologist (1858 - 1964)
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  • Virgil Each man has his appointed day: short and irreparable in the brief life of all, but to extend our fame by our deeds, this is the work of mankind.
    Virgil
    Roman poet (70 - 19)
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  • Persius Each man has his own desires; all do not possess the same inclinations.
    Persius
    Roman poet and satirist (34 - 62)
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  • Alfred de Musset Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
    Alfred de Musset
    French writer (1810 - 1857)
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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Each morning sees some task begun, each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done, has earned a night's repose.
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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  • William Baziotes Each painting has its own way of evolving... When the painting is finished, the subject reveals itself.
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  • Joseph Sugarman Each problem has hidden in it an opportunity so powerful that it literally dwarfs the problem. The greatest success stories were created by people who recognized a problem and turned it into an opportunity.
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  • Bruno Maag Each script has its own calligraphic and cultural history. It is more a question of matching different calligraphic styles to one another, without the features of one script dominating another.
    Bruno Maag
    Swiss type designer and businessman (1962 - )
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  • Gore Vidal Each writer is born with a repertory company in his head. Shakespeare has perhaps 20 players, and Tennessee Williams has about 5, and Samuel Beckett one - and maybe a clone of that one. I have 10 or so, and that's a lot. As you get older, you become more skillful at casting them.
    Gore Vidal
    American writer and criticus (1925 - 2012)
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  • Ouida Eagles that love the high light-penetrated air,
    that has no dust and clog of earthborn dust,
    must ever dwell in solitude.
    Source: Chandos
    Ouida
    English novelist, pseudonym of Maria Louise Ramé (1839 - 1908)
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  • Barbara Jordan Earlier today we heard the beginning of the Preamble to the Constitution of the United States. 'We the people.' It is a very eloquent beginning. But, when that document was completed on the 17th of September in 1787, I was not included in that 'We, the people.' I felt somehow for many years that George Washington and Alexander Hamilton just left me out by mistake. But, through the process of amendment, interpretation, and court decision, I have finally been included in 'We, t
    Source: Statement before House Judiciary Committee considering impeachment of Richard Nixon, 25 July 1974
    Barbara Jordan
    American lawyer, educator and politician (1936 - 1996)
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  • Thomas Moore Earth has no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal.
    Thomas Moore
    Irish poet (1779 - 1852)
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  • Winston Churchill Eating words has never given me indigestion.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • John Stuart Mill Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character has abounded; and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage which it contained.
    John Stuart Mill
    English economist (1806 - 1873)
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  • Ben Bernanke Economics has many substantive areas of knowledge where there is agreement, but also contains areas of controversy. That's inescapable.
    Ben Bernanke
    American economist (1953 - )
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