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  • William Shakespeare I stalk about her door like a strange soul upon the Stygian banks staying for wattage.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Donald Trump I supported John McCain for president. I raised a million dollars for him. Still a lot of money. I supported him. He lost. He let us down. So I never liked him as much after that because I don`t like losers.
    Donald Trump
    American businessman (1946 - )
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  • William Hazlitt I would like to spend my whole life traveling, if I could borrow another life to spend at home.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Adele In five years' time I'd like to be a mum. I want to settle down and have a family, definitely sooner rather than later. I'd like to have finished my second album too, maybe even my third. I'd like a sound that sticks around that other people are inspired by and that people know is me.
    Adele
    English singer-songwriter (1988 - )
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  • Blair Underwood In terms of the black female audience, usually if you're true to that character but more so in your body of work if you've proven that you love your sisters and you proven you will come back home like in 42.4% they'll give you a pass when you jump ship. I hear it all the time.
    Blair Underwood
    American actor (1964 - )
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  • Cameron Boyce Kevin Hart. He's the man! I like his style. He's short, so I can relate. All the stories he tells are real. I respect that, and he's just a really funny dude - great comedy instincts. To do stand-up on a stage for an hour and tell stories and make people laugh is incredible.
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  • Simone Weil Learn to reject friendship, or rather the dream of friendship. To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art, or life (like aesthetic joys). I must refuse it in order to be worthy to receive it
    Simone Weil
    French philosopher (1909 - 1943)
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  • Ludwig Wittgenstein Like everything metaphysical the harmony between thought and reality is to be found in the grammar of the language.
    Ludwig Wittgenstein
    Austrian - English philosopher (1889 - 1951)
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  • Helen Keller Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but the smell makes the garden a place of joy.
    Helen Keller
    American writer (1880 - 1968)
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  • Albert Schweitzer Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile.
    Albert Schweitzer
    German physician, theologian, philosopher, musician (1875 - 1965)
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  • Thomas Fuller Memory is like a purse, if it be over-full that it cannot shut, all will drop out of it. Take heed of a gluttonous curiosity to feed on many things, lest the greediness of the appetite of thy memory spoil the digestion thereof.
    Thomas Fuller
    English preacher and writer (1608 - 1661)
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  • Bob Beauprez My parents were exactly like millions of other Americans who had a fire in their belly to build something of their own, and in so doing they exemplified the dignity of work, the opportunity available in this great nation to those willing to work, and they left the world a bit better than it was when they first showed up.
    Bob Beauprez
    American politician and member (1948 - )
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  • Donald Trump Nobody can solve debt problems like me.
    Donald Trump
    American businessman (1946 - )
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  • Thomas Fuller Nothing sharpens sight like envy.
    Thomas Fuller
    English preacher and writer (1608 - 1661)
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  • Karl Marx On a level plain, simple mounds look like hills; and the insipid flatness of our present bourgeoisie is to be measured by the altitude of its ''great intellects.''
    Karl Marx
    German economist and state philosopher (1818 - 1883)
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  • Hermann Hesse One never reaches home, but wherever friendly paths intersect the whole world looks like home for a time.
    Hermann Hesse
    German-Swiss writer, poet and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1946) (1877 - 1962)
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld Our actions are like the terminations of verses, which we rhyme as we please.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg People often become scholars for the same reason they become soldiers: simply because they are unfit for any other station. Their right hand has to earn them a livelihood; one might say they lie down like bears in winter and seek sustenance from their paws.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Ludwig Wittgenstein Philosophy is like trying to open a safe with a combination lock: each little adjustment of the dials seems to achieve nothing, only when everything is in place does the door open.
    Ludwig Wittgenstein
    Austrian - English philosopher (1889 - 1951)
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  • Denis Diderot Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory.
    Denis Diderot
    French philosopher (1713 - 1784)
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