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  • Woody Allen More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly.
    Woody Allen
    American movie director and actor (1935 - )
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  • Lady Mary Wortley Montagu Nature has not placed us in an inferior rank to men, no more than the females of other animals, where we see no distinction of capacity, though I am persuaded if there was a commonwealth of rational horses... it would be an established maxim amongst them that a mare could not be taught to pace.
    Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
    English writer (1689 - 1762)
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  • St. Ambrose of Milan No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks.
    St. Ambrose of Milan
    Bishop of Milan (339 - 397)
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  • Booker T. Washington No greater injury can be done to any youth than to let him feel that because he belongs to this or that race he will be advanced in life regardless of his own merits or efforts.
    Booker T. Washington
    American Black Leader and Educator (1856 - 1915)
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  • James T. Mccay No matter what the level of your ability, you have more potential than you can ever develop in a lifetime.
    James T. Mccay
    American author
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  • Lord George Byron No more we meet in yonder bowers Absence has made me prone to roving; But older, firmer hearts than ours, Have found monotony in loving.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • George Santayana Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape; a spirit with any honor is not willing to live except in its own way, and a spirit with any wisdom is not over-eager to live at all.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • Coco Chanel Nothing goes out of fashion sooner than a long dress with a very low neck.
    Coco Chanel
    French couturier (1883 - 1971)
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  • Martin Luther King Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
    Martin Luther King
    American preacher (1929 - 1968)
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  • Johann Gottfried Seume Nothing is more common on earth than to deceive and be deceived.
    Johann Gottfried Seume
    German writer (1763 - 1810)
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  • Charles Caleb Colton Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of tricks and duplicity than straight forward and simple integrity in another.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Benjamin Franklin Nothing preaches better than the act.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Joseph Rudyard Kipling Often and often afterwards, the beloved Aunt would ask me why I had never told anyone how I was being treated. Children tell little more than animals, for what comes to them they accept as eternally established.
    Joseph Rudyard Kipling
    English writer (1865 - 1936)
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  • Knute Rockne One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than fifty preaching it.
    Knute Rockne
    Norwegian-American football player and coach (1888 - 1931)
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  • John Updike Our brains are no longer conditioned for reverence and awe. We cannot imagine a Second Coming that would not be cut down to size by the televised evening news, or a Last Judgment not subject to pages of holier-than-thou second-guessing in The New York Review of Books.
    John Updike
    American writer and criticus (1932 - 2009)
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  • Thomas Henry Huxley Patience and tenacity of purpose are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness.
    Thomas Henry Huxley
    English biologist (1825 - 1895)
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  • Lord Chesterfield Patience is the most necessary quality for business, many a man would rather you heard his story than grant his request.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Henry David Thoreau Pity the man who has a character to support - it is worse than a large family - he is silent poor indeed.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • B. R. Ambedkar Political tyranny is nothing compared to the social tyranny and a reformer who defies society is a more courageous man than a politician who defies Government.
    B. R. Ambedkar
    Indian jurist, economist and politician (1891 - 1956)
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  • Henry David Thoreau Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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