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  • Edmund Burke To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • William Blake To the eyes of a miser a guinea is more beautiful than the sun, and a bag worn with the use of money has more beautiful proportions than a vine filled with grapes.
    William Blake
    English poet (1757 - 1827)
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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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  • Robert Louis Stevenson To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
    Virginibus Puerisque (1881) El Dorado
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    Scottish writer and poet (1850 - 1894)
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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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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe To understand one thing well is better than understanding many things by halves.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • E. M. Cioran To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.
    E. M. Cioran
    French-Romanian philosopher (1911 - 1995)
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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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  • Miguel de Cervantes To withdraw is not to run away, and to stay is no wise action, when there's more reason to fear than to hope.
    Miguel de Cervantes
    Spanish writer and poet (1547 - 1616)
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  • Albert Pike To work with the hands or brain, according to our requirements and our capacities, to do that which lies before us to do, is more honorable than rank and title.
    Albert Pike
    American attorney, soldier, writer, and Freemason (1809 - 1891)
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  • Bob Graham Today 80 percent of all the oil that comes out of the Gulf is from 1,000 feet or more and today almost a third of it is more than 5,000 feet below the surface. What hasn't happened is the safety and the ability to respond to a negative event such as this blowout, has been far outrun by the technology of drilling itself. We need to close that gap.
    Bob Graham
    American politician and author (1936 - )
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  • George F. Will Today more Americans are imprisoned for drug offenses than for property crimes
    George F. Will
    American columnist (1941 - )
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  • Al Capp Today's younger generation is no worse than my own. We were just as ignorant and repulsive as they are, but nobody listened to us.
    Al Capp
    American cartoonist and humorist (1909 - 1979)
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  • Herman Melville Toil is man's allotment; toil of brain, or toil of hands, or a grief that's more than either, the grief and sin of idleness.
    Herman Melville
    American author (1819 - 1891)
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  • Bill Nelson Too many children are being parked in substandard day care with workers who make little more than a parking attendant.
    Bill Nelson
    American attorney and politician (1942 - )
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  • James F. Byrnes Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death.
    James F. Byrnes
    American judge and politician (1882 - 1972)
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  • John Kenneth Galbraith Total physical and mental inertia are highly agreeable, much more so than we allow ourselves to imagine. A beach not only permits such inertia but enforces it, thus neatly eliminating all problems of guilt. It is now the only place in our overly active world that does.
    John Kenneth Galbraith
    American economist (1908 - 2006)
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  • B. B. King Touring a segregated America - forever being stopped and harassed by white cops hurt you most 'cos you don't realise the damage. You hold it in. You feel empty, like someone reached in and pulled out your guts. You feel hurt and dirty, less than a person.
    B. B. King
    American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and record producer (1925 - 2015)
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  • Guy Debord Tourism, human circulation considered as consumption is fundamentally nothing more than the leisure of going to see what has become banal.
    Guy Debord
    French philosopher (1931 - 1994)
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  • David Herbert Lawrence Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.
    David Herbert Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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