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  • William Shakespeare To thine own self be true; and it must follow, as the night the day: thou canst not then be false to any man.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Thomas Traherne To think the world therefore a general Bedlam, or place of madmen, and oneself a physician, is the most necessary point of present wisdom: an important imagination, and the way to happiness.
    Thomas Traherne
    British Clergyman, Poet, Mystic (1636 - 1674)
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  • Susan B. Anthony To think, I have had more than 60 years of hard struggle for a little liberty, and then to die without it seems so cruel.
    Susan B. Anthony
    American women's rights activist (1820 - 1906)
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  • Carroll Quigley To this day the Arab influence is evident in southern Italy, northern Africa and, above all, in Spain.
    Carroll Quigley
    American historian and theorist (1910 - 1977)
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  • Albert Camus To those who despair of everything reason cannot provide a faith, but only passion, and in this case it must be the same passion that lay at the root of the despair, namely humiliation and hatred.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Calvin Harris To throw a shoe at a man in Dundee is the equivalent of a kiss on the cheek and an embrace in London. Dundee is a very different place; they have their own rules.
    Calvin Harris
    Scottish DJ, record producer, singer, and songwriter (1984 - )
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  • Henry James To treat a ''big'' subject in the intensely summarized fashion demanded by an evening's traffic of the stage when the evening, freely clipped at each end, is reduced to two hours and a half, is a feat of which the difficulty looms large.
    Henry James
    American author (1843 - 1916)
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  • George Earle Buckle To try and change opinion by law is worse than futile.
    George Earle Buckle
    English editor and biographer (1854 - 1935)
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  • Bill Nye To try to really land a spacecraft really on another world is really difficult, and if we lose that ability, it's going to be heartbreaking.
    Bill Nye
    American science communicator, television presenter (1955 - )
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  • Roland Barthes To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.
    Roland Barthes
    French writer, literary critic, linguist and philosopher (1915 - 1980)
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  • Angela Davis To understand how any society functions you must understand the relationship between the men and the women.
    Angela Davis
    American political activist, philosopher, academic, and author (1944 - )
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  • Kahlil Gibran To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to do.
    Kahlil Gibran
    Libian painter and writer (1883 - 1931)
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  • Marcus Aurelius To understand the true quality of people, you must look into their minds, and examine their pursuits and aversions.
    Marcus Aurelius
    Roman emperor (121 - 180)
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  • Thomas Carlyle To us also, through every star, through every blade of grass, is not God made visible if we will open our minds and our eyes.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Norman Thomas To us Americans much has been given; of us much is required. With all our faults and mistakes, it is our strength in support of the freedom our forefathers loved which has saved mankind from subjection to totalitarian power.
    Norman Thomas
     
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  • Barbara Bush To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there.
    Barbara Bush
    American First Lady (1925 - 2018)
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  • H. L. Wayland To value riches is not to be covetous. They are the gift of God, and, like every gift of his, good in themselves, and capable of a good use. But to overvalue riches, to give them a place in the heart which God did not design them to fill, this is covetous
    H. L. Wayland
     
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  • Tryon Edwards To waken interest and kindle enthusiasm is the sure way to teach easily and successfully.
    Tryon Edwards
    American theologian (1809 - 1894)
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  • André Gide To what a degree the same past can leave different marks - and especially admit of different interpretations.
    André Gide
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1947) (1869 - 1951)
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  • Queen Elizabeth II To what greater inspiration and counsel can we turn than to the imperishable truth to be found in this treasure house, the Bible?
    Queen Elizabeth II
    Queen of the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand (1926 - 2022)
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