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  • Albert Einstein All meaningful and lasting change starts first in your imagination and then works its way out. Imagination is more important than knowledge.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Bill Medley All my memories of being in Las Vegas with Bobby were great. Frank Sinatra brought us to the Sands Hotel in 1965. When we worked that lounge, it was a great lounge. I think it was bigger than the showroom. We were two 25-year-old dumb kids from Orange County in Las Vegas with The Rat Pack.
    Bill Medley
    American singer and songwriter (1940 - )
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  • Thomas Paine All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.
    Thomas Paine
    English-born American political activist, philosopher, political theor (1737 - 1809)
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  • Arthur Hays Sulzberger All nations are more tolerant of their own mistakes and weaknesses than of the mistakes and weaknesses of others.
    Arthur Hays Sulzberger
    American newspaper publisher (1891 - 1968)
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  • Babe Didrikson Zaharias All of my life I've always had the urge to do things better than anybody else.
    Babe Didrikson Zaharias
    American athlete (1911 - 1956)
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  • Carl Sagan All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value.
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Maurice Maeterlinck All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.
    Maurice Maeterlinck
    Belgian poet, playwright and Nobel Prize winner (1911) (1862 - 1949)
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  • Samuel Butler All philosophies, if you ride them home, are nonsense, but some are greater nonsense than others.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Alexander Herzen All religions have based morality on obedience, that is to say, on voluntary slavery. That is why they have always been more pernicious than any political organization. For the latter makes use of violence, the former - of the corruption of the will.
    Alexander Herzen
    Russian journalist and political thinker (1812 - 1870)
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  • Vince Lombardi All right Mister, let me tell you what winning means... you're willing to go longer, work harder, give more than anyone else.
    Vince Lombardi
    American football player (1913 - 1970)
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  • Charles M. Schwab All successful employers are stalking men who will do the unusual, men who think, men who attract attention by performing more than is expected of them.
    Charles M. Schwab
    American industrialist (1862 - 1939)
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  • C. S. Lewis All their life in this world and all their adventures in Narnia had only been the cover and the title page: now at last they were beginning Chapter One of the Great Story which no one on earth has read: which goes on for ever: in which every chapter is better than the one before.
    The Chronicles of Narnia (1950) The Last Battle (1956), Closing lines, in Ch. 16 :
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • William Shakespeare All things that are,
    Are with more spirit chased than enjoyed.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Virginia Woolf Almost any biographer, if he respects facts, can give us much more than another fact to add to our collection. He can give us the creative fact; the fertile fact; the fact that suggests and engenders.
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • George Santayana Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • Ban Ki-moon Although more than 500 million maritime containers move around the world each year, accounting for 90 per cent of international trade, only 2 per cent are inspected. Strengthening customs and immigration systems is essential.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Ovid Although they posses enough, and more than enough still they yearn for more.
    Ovid
    Roman poet (43 - 17)
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  • Cyril Connolly Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.
    Cyril Connolly
    British criticus (1903 - 1974)
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  • Abraham Lincoln Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Oprah Winfrey Always continue the climb. It is possible for you to do whatever you choose, if you first get to know who you are and are willing to work with a power that is greater than ourselves to do it.
    Oprah Winfrey
    American TV host, Actress (1954 - )
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