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  • Queen Victoria His purity was too great, his aspiration too high for this poor, miserable world! His great soul is now only enjoying that for which it was worthy!
    Queen Victoria
    Queen of Great Britain (1819 - 1901)
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  • Billy Joel Historically, musicians know what it is like to be outside the norm - walking the high wire without a safety net. Our experience is not so different from those who march to the beat of different drummers.
    Billy Joel
    American singer-songwriter and pianist (1949 - )
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  • Jesse Jackson Hold your head high, stick your chest out. You can make it. It gets dark sometimes, but morning comes. Keep hope alive.
    Jesse Jackson
    American Clergyman, Civil Rights Leader (1941 - )
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  • Oswald Chambers Holiness, not happiness, is the chief end of man.
    Oswald Chambers
    Scottish preacher, writer (1874 - 1917)
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld Hope is the last thing that dies in man; and though it be exceedingly deceitful, yet it is of this good use to us, that while we are traveling through life it conducts us in an easier and more pleasant way to our journey's end.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow How beautiful is youth! how bright it gleams with its illusions, aspirations, dreams! Book of Beginnings, Story without End, Each maid a heroine, and each man a friend!
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau How many famous and high-spirited heroes have lived a day too long?
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    French writer and philosopher (1712 - 1778)
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  • Barry Schwartz How much does it really matter whether your child will soon be enjoying a first year at Harvard or Yale or will instead end up at her third or fourth or fifth choice? Probably much less than you think.
    Barry Schwartz
    American psychologist (1946 - )
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  • James Thurber Humor does not include sarcasm, invalid irony, sardonicism, innuendo, or any other form of cruelty. When these things are raised to a high point they can become wit, but unlike the French and the English, we have not been much good at wit since the days of Benjamin Franklin.
    James Thurber
    American cartoonist (1894 - 1961)
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  • Billy Collins Humor, for me, is really a gate of departure. It's a way of enticing a reader into a poem so that less funny things can take place later. It really is not an end in itself, but a means to an end.
    Billy Collins
    American poet (1941 - )
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  • Austan Goolsbee I am a data hound and so I usually end up working on whatever things I can find good data on. The rise of Internet commerce completely altered the amount of information you could gather on company behavior so I naturally drifted toward it.
    Austan Goolsbee
    American economist (1969 - )
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  • Margaret Thatcher I am extraordinarily patient provided I get my own way in the end.
    Margaret Thatcher
    British Prime Minister (1979-1990) (1925 - 2013)
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  • Margaret Thatcher I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph.
    Margaret Thatcher
    British Prime Minister (1979-1990) (1925 - 2013)
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  • Albert Einstein I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace. Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Alfred Hitchcock I am scared easily, here is a list of my adrenaline - production: 1: small children, 2: policemen, 3: high places, 4: that my next movie will not be as good as the last one.
    Alfred Hitchcock
    English moviedirector (1899 - 1980)
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  • Henry Ford I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
    Henry Ford
    American industrialist (1863 - 1947)
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  • Booker T. Washington I believe that any man's life will be filled with constant and unexpected encouragement, if he makes up his mind to do his level best each day, and as nearly as possible reaching the high water mark of pure and useful living.
    Booker T. Washington
    American Black Leader and Educator (1856 - 1915)
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  • Alan Turing I believe that at the end of the century the use of words and general educated opinion will have altered so much that one will be able to speak of machines thinking without expecting to be contradicted.
    Alan Turing
    English mathematician and computer scientist (1912 - 1954)
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  • Lord George Byron I by no means rank poetry high in the scale of intelligence - this may look like affectation but it is my real opinion. It is the lava of the imagination whose eruption prevents an earthquake.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Agnetha Faltskog I can spot empty flattery and know exactly where I stand. In the end it's really only my own approval or disapproval that means anything.
    Agnetha Faltskog
    Swedish singer, songwriter and actress (1950 - )
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