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  • Baltasar Gracian Evil report carries further than any applause.
    Baltasar Gracian
    Spanish Jesuit and philosopher (1601 - 1658)
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  • Charles Caleb Colton Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Beth Broderick Examining other people's motivations, other people's language and other people's way of interacting is much more fascinating to me than spending a lot of time worrying about my own. I've said, 'What other people think of me is none of my business.'
    Beth Broderick
    American actress (1959 - )
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  • Christian Nevell Bovee Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.
    Christian Nevell Bovee
    American writer
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  • Henry Miller Example moves the world more than doctrine. The great exemplars are the poets of action, and it makes little difference whether they be forces for good or forces for evil.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • Robert Cecil Examples is more forcible than precept. People look at my six days in the week to see what I mean on the seventh.
    Robert Cecil
    English statesman (1563 - 1612)
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  • Augustus Hare Examples would indeed be excellent things were not people so modest that none will set, and so vain that none will follow them.
    Augustus Hare
    English writer (1834 - 1903)
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  • Thomas J. Peters Excellent firms don't believe in excellence - only in constant improvement and constant change.
    Thomas J. Peters
    American Management Consultant, Author, Trainer (1942 - )
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  • Alfred H. Barr Except the American woman, nothing interests the eye of American man more than the automobile, or seems so important to him as an object of aesthetic appreciation.
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  • Susan Sontag Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past, present, and future.
    Susan Sontag
    American writer, filmmaker, teacher, and political activist (1933 - 2004)
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  • Edgar F. Magnin Existence was given us for action. Our worth is determined by the good deed we do, rather than by the fine emotions we feel,
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  • Walter Benjamin Experience has taught me that the shallowest of communist platitudes contains more of a hierarchy of meaning than contemporary bourgeois profundity.
    Walter Benjamin
    German philosopher (1892 - 1940)
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  • Charles Buxton Experience shows that success is due less to ability than to zeal. The winner is he who gives himself to his work body and soul.
    Charles Buxton
    British writer (1823 - 1871)
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  • Colin Powell Experts often possess more data than judgment.
    Colin Powell
    American elder statesman and four-star general (1937 - 2021)
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  • Bob Brown Exxon, Coca-Cola, BHP Billiton and News Corporation have much more say in organising the global agenda than the planet's 5 billion mature-age voters without a ballot box.
    Bob Brown
    Australian politician, medical doctor and environmentalist (1944 - )
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Frederick Hudson Ecker Facts are the most important thing in business. Study facts and do more than is expected of you.
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  • Augusto Roa Bastos Facts can't be recounted; much less twice over, and far less still by different persons. I've already drummed that thoroughly into your head. What happens is that your wretched memory remembers the words and forgets what's behind them.
    Augusto Roa Bastos
    Paraguayan novelist and writer (1917 - 2005)
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  • George Eliot Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Henry Christopher Bailey Faith is a higher faculty than reason.
    Henry Christopher Bailey
    English author of detective fiction (1878 - 1961)
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