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  • August Strindberg Family... the home of all social evil, a charitable institution for comfortable women, an anchorage for house-fathers, and a hell for children.
    August Strindberg
    Swedish writer (1849 - 1912)
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  • Henry Fielding Fashion is the science of appearance, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.
    Henry Fielding
    English writer (1707 - 1754)
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  • Adam Clarke Few men can be said to have inimitable excellencies: let us watch them in their progress from infancy to manhood, and we shall soon be convinced that what they attained was the necessary consequence of the line they pursued, and the means they used.
    Adam Clarke
    British Methodist theologian (1760 - 1832)
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  • Samuel Johnson Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Richard M. DeVos Few things in the world are more powerful than a positive push. A smile. A world of optimism and hope. A ''you can do it'' when things are tough.
    Richard M. DeVos
    American businessman, co-founder of Amway Corp. (1926 - 2018)
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  • Stephen R. Covey Find your voice and inspire others to find theirs.
    Stephen R. Covey
    American educator, author and businessman (1932 - 2012)
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  • Robert Burns Firmness in enduring and exertion is a character I always wish to possess. I have always despised the whining yelp of complaint and cowardly resolve.
    Robert Burns
    Scottish Poet (1759 - 1796)
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  • Luther Burbank Flowers always make people better, happier and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine to the soul.
    Luther Burbank
    American botanist, horticulturist and pioneer (1849 - 1926)
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  • Douglas Adams Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.
    Douglas Adams
    British science-fiction writer (1952 - 2001)
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  • John Dryden Fool that I was, upon my eagle's wings I bore this wren, till I was tired with soaring, and now he mounts above me.
    John Dryden
    English poet and playwright (1631 - 1700)
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  • B. R. Ambedkar For a successful revolution it is not enough that there is discontent. What is required is a profound and thorough conviction of the justice, necessity and importance of political and social rights.
    B. R. Ambedkar
    Indian jurist, economist and politician (1891 - 1956)
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  • John Burroughs For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice - no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.
    John Burroughs
    American writer (1837 - 1921)
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  • Ann Bancroft For me, the greatest obstacles are never on the ice itself. That's the area I excel in. That's where my passion is. I think we all strive to push ourselves, to overcome our struggles. And when we do, we get to know ourselves better.
    Ann Bancroft
    American author, teacher, adventurer (1955 - )
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  • Carl Bernstein For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norms, even our cultural ideal.
    Carl Bernstein
    American investigative journalist and author (1944 - )
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  • Joseph Rudyard Kipling For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack.
    Joseph Rudyard Kipling
    English writer (1865 - 1936)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe For this reason the Bible is a book of eternal and effective power; because, as long as the world lasts, no one will say: I comprehend it in the whole and understand it in the particular. Rather we must modestly say it on the whole it is venerable, and in the particular practical.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Luis Bunuel Fortunately, somewhere between chance and mystery lies imagination, the only thing that protects our freedom, despite the fact that people keep trying to reduce it or kill it off altogether.
    Luis Bunuel
    Spanish director (1900 - 1983)
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  • Billy Wilder France is the country where the money falls apart and you can't tear the toilet paper.
    Billy Wilder
    Austrian-American filmmaker, screenwriter, producer and artist (1906 - 2002)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Freedom consists not in refusing to recognize anything above us, but in respecting something which is above us; for by respecting it, we raise ourselves to it, and, by our very acknowledgment, prove that we bear within ourselves what is higher, and are worthy to be on a level with it
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Rosa Luxemburg Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently.
    Rosa Luxemburg
    German Marxist politician and philosopher (1871 - 1919)
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