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  • Jonathan Swift A footman may swear; but he cannot swear like a lord. He can swear as often: but can he swear with equal delicacy, propriety, and judgment?
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • Bernice Fitz-Gibbon A good ad should be like a good sermon: It must not only comfort the afflicted, it also must afflict the comfortable.
    Macys, Gimbels, and Me: How to Earn $90,000 a Year in Retail Advertising
    Bernice Fitz-Gibbon
    American advertising executive
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  • George Orwell A human being is primarily a bag for putting food into.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Emily Dickinson A letter always feels to me like immortality because it is the mind alone, without corporal friend.
    Emily Dickinson
    American poet (1830 - 1886)
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  • Anthony Hecht A lot of the fun lies in trying to penetrate the mystery; and this is best done by saying over the lines to yourself again and again, till they pass through the stage of sounding like nonsense, and finally return to a full sense that had at first escaped notice.
    Anthony Hecht
    American poet (1923 - 2004)
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  • Burning Spear A lot of things encouraged me to start my label. I think it's very important for an artist to know how many records they've sold and where they've sold. I know that I have never been treated the way I'm supposed to be treated - like an artist. That's why I do things for myself. I feel like I'm a free man.
    Burning Spear
    Jamaican reggae singer-songwriter, vocalist and musician (1945 - )
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  • Walter H. Cottingham A man without ambition is like a bird without wings.
    System: The Magazine of Business (1908)
    Walter H. Cottingham
    Canadian entrepreneur and writer (1866 - 1930)
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  • Vladimir Nabokov A novelist is, like all mortals, more fully at home on the surface of the present than in the ooze of the past.
    Vladimir Nabokov
    American writer and poet (1899 - 1977)
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  • Jimmy Carter A strong nation, like a strong person, can afford to be gentle, firm, thoughtful, and restrained. It can afford to extend a helping hand to others. It's a weak nation, like a weak person, that must behave with bluster and boasting and rashness and other signs of insecurity.
    Jimmy Carter
    American statesman, 39e President (1924 - )
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  • Anna Held A woman should be like a single flower, not a whole bouquet.
    Anna Held
    Polish-born stage performer and singer (1872 - 1918)
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  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge Advice is like snow; the softer it falls the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind.
    Samuel Taylor Coleridge
    English poet and critic (1772 - 1834)
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  • Lord Chesterfield Advice is seldom welcome; and those who want it the most always like it the least.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Leigh Hunt Affection, like melancholy, magnifies trifles; but the magnifying of the one is like looking through a telescope at heavenly objects; that of the other, like enlarging monsters with a microscope.
    Leigh Hunt
    British poet, essaywriter (1784 - 1859)
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  • Al Gore Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
    Al Gore
    American politician and environmentalist (1948 - )
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  • Groucho Marx Alimony is like buying hay for a dead horse.
    Groucho Marx
    American comic actor (1890 - 1977)
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  • Frank Lloyd Wright All fine architectural values are human vales, else not valuable.
    Frank Lloyd Wright
    American architect (1867 - 1959)
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  • Adolf Hitler All great movements are popular movements. They are the volcanic eruptions of human passions and emotions, stirred into activity by the ruthless Goddess of Distress or by the torch of the spoken word cast into the midst of the people.
    Adolf Hitler
    German politician (1889 - 1945)
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  • Blaise Pascal All human evil comes from a single cause, man's inability to sit still in a room.
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Oscar Wilde All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Gloria Steinem Allowing women the power to decide when and whether to have children is the only way to solve the 7 billion human load on this planet that threatens to destroy it. Women's equality is also men's survival.
    Gloria Steinem
    American feminist writer (1934 - )
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