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  • William Somerset Maugham Lady Hodmarsh and the duchess immediately assumed the clinging affability that persons of rank assume with their inferiors in order to show them that they are not in the least conscious of any difference in station between them.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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  • Elbert Hubbard Laughter is higher than all pain.
    Elbert Hubbard
    American writer and publisher (1856 - 1915)
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  • Martin Luther King Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress.
    Martin Luther King
    American preacher (1929 - 1968)
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  • Golda Meir Let me tell you something that we Israelis have against Moses. He took us 40 years through the desert in order to bring us to the one spot in the Middle East that has no oil!
    Golda Meir
    Prime Minister of Israel (1898 - 1978)
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  • Lord Acton Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.
    Lord Acton
    British historian (1834 - 1902)
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  • Edmund Burke Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • Samuel Johnson Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Paul Gauguin Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.
    Paul Gauguin
    French artist (1848 - 1903)
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  • Albert J. Nock Life has obliged him to remember so much useful knowledge that he has lost not only his history, but his whole original cargo of useless knowledge; history, languages, literatures, the higher mathematics, or what you will - are all gone.
    Albert J. Nock
    American libertarian author (1870 - 1945)
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  • Bruce Lee Life lives; and in the living flow, no questions are raised. The reason is that life is a living now! So, in order to live life whole-heartedly, the answer is life simply is.
    Striking Thoughts (2000)
    Bruce Lee
    Chinese-American Actor, Director, Author, Martial Artist (1940 - 1973)
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  • Gerda Lerner Long-term commitment to an intimate relationship with one person of whatever sex is an essential need that people have in order to breed the qualities out of which nurturing thought can rise.
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  • Bernie Sanders Look, if you have somebody who doesn't have health insurance, who doesn't have a doctor or dentist, and in order to deal with their cold or flu or dental problem, they go to an emergency room - in general, that visit will cost ten times more than walking into a community health center.
    Bernie Sanders
    American politician (1941 - )
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  • Judith Viorst Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.
    Judith Viorst
    American writer and journalist (1931 - )
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  • Bernard of Clairvaux Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love because I love; I love in order that I may love.
    Bernard of Clairvaux
    French abbot (1090 - 1153)
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  • Herbert Kaufman Makers of empire, they have fought for bigger things than crowns and higher seats than thrones.
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  • E. M. Cioran Man must vanquish himself, must do himself violence, in order to perform the slightest action untainted by evil.
    E. M. Cioran
    French-Romanian philosopher (1911 - 1995)
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  • Ralph Ransom Man was created as a being who should constantly keep improving, a being who on reaching one goal sets a higher one.
    Ralph Ransom
    American art painter
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  • Albert Einstein Many times a day I realize how much my own life is built on the labors of my fellowmen, and how earnestly I must exert myself in order to give in return as much as I have received.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.
    Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
    British author (1859 - 1930)
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  • Alfred Lord Tennyson Men may rise on stepping-stones of their dead selves to higher things.
    Alfred Lord Tennyson
    English poet (1809 - 1892)
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