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  • Cal Thomas As pressure grows to ease the financial burden on social security, pressure will also grow to eliminate the elderly and infirm to 'free up' more money for the 'fit' and those who contribute more than they take from society.
    Cal Thomas
    American columnist and author (1942 - )
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  • Brendan Fraser As sophisticated as the technology gets, the less sophisticated you have to become as an actor.
    Brendan Fraser
    American and Canadian actor (1969 - )
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg As the few adepts in such things well know, universal morality is to be found in little everyday penny-events just as much as in great ones. There is so much goodness and ingenuity in a raindrop that an apothecary wouldn't let it go for less than half-a-crown...
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Ann Coulter As the leader of twelve apostles, even Jesus had more executive experience than Obama.
    Ann Coulter
    American far-right media pundit and author (1961 - )
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  • Marshall Mcluhan As the unity of the modern world becomes increasingly a technological rather than a social affair, the techniques of the arts provide the most valuable means of insight into the real direction of our own collective purposes.
    Marshall Mcluhan
    Canadian professor and philosopher (1911 - 1980)
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  • Brene Brown As unique as we all are, an awful lot of us want the same things. We want to shake up our current less-than-fulfilling lives. We want to be happier, more loving, forgiving and connected with the people around us.
    Brene Brown
    American professor, lecturer, author (1965 - )
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  • Baltasar Gracián Aspire rather to be a hero than merely appear one.
    Baltasar Gracián
    Spanish Jesuit and philosopher (1601 - 1658)
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  • George Washington Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation. It is better be alone than in bad company.
    George Washington
    First president of the US (1732 - 1799)
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  • Caroline Lawrence At 16, when I was at Henry M. Gunn High School, I had a crush on the English teacher, and my grades improved dramatically. This great school had only 400 students, mostly children of Stanford professors, and it was more usual to have classes under one of the oak trees dotted around the campus than in the classroom.
    Caroline Lawrence
    English American author (1954 - )
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  • Carlos Slim At 25, I made many companies. I was thinking more like a businessman or entrepreneur than a CEO. I created many companies, small companies, medium companies. I tried to be involved in many kinds of activities, in finance, in real estate, in mining.
    Carlos Slim
    Mexican business magnate, investor and philanthropist (1940 - )
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  • Alexander Woollcott At 83 Shaw's mind was perhaps not quite as good as it used to be, but it was still better than anyone else's.
    Alexander Woollcott
    American critic and commentator (0 - 1943)
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  • Anne McCaffrey At age 77, I need the help of someone with more energy than I can now summon to finish a book.
    Anne McCaffrey
    American-Irish writer (1926 - 2011)
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  • Jean Baudrillard At male strip shows, it is still the women that we watch, the audience of women and their eager faces. They are more obscene than if they were dancing naked themselves.
    Jean Baudrillard
    French sociologist and philosopher. (1929 - 2007)
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  • Anne Tyler At most I'll spend three or four hours daily, sometimes less.
    Anne Tyler
    American novelist and short story writer (1941 - )
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  • Elizabeth Barrett Browning At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading is not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction.
    Elizabeth Barrett Browning
    English poet (1806 - 1861)
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  • Derek Wall At present cats have more purchasing power and influence than the poor of this planet. Accidents of geography and colonial history should no longer determine who gets the fish.
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  • Allen Tate At twelve I was determined to shoot only For honor; at twenty not to shoot at all; I know at thirty-three that one must shoot As often as one gets the rare chance - In killing there is more than commentary.
    Allen Tate
    American poet and essayist (1899 - 1979)
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  • Francis Bacon Atheism is rather in the lip than in the heart of man.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Nicholas Boileau Attach yourself to those who advise you rather than praise you.
    Nicholas Boileau
    French poet and critic (1636 - 1711)
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  • Charles Caleb Colton Avarice has ruined more souls than extravagance.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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