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  • Sydney Justin Harris Ninety per cent of the world's woe comes from people not knowing themselves, their abilities, their frailties, and even their real virtues. Most of us go almost all the way through life as complete strangers to ourselves - so how can we know anyone else?
    Sydney Justin Harris
    American journalist (1917 - 1986)
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  • Ralph Gerard No age or time of life, no position or circumstance, has a monopoly on success. Any age is the right age to start doing!
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  • Charlotte Saunders Cushman No artist work is so high, so noble, so grand, so enduring, so important for all time, as the making of character is a child.
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  • Barry Lopez No culture has yet solved the dilemma each has faced with the growth of a conscious mind: how to live a moral and compassionate existence when one is fully aware of the blood, the horror inherent in all life, when one finds darkness not only in one's own culture but within oneself... There are simply no answers to some of the great pressing questions. You continue to live them out, making your life a worthy expression of a leaning into the light.
    Arctic Dreams
    Barry Lopez
    American author (1945 - )
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  • Barbara Ehrenreich No culture on earth outside of mid-century suburban America has ever deployed one woman per child without simultaneously assigning her such major productive activities as weaving, farming, gathering, temple maintenance, and tent-building. The reason is that full-time, one-on-one child-raising is not good for women or children.
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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  • Thomas Henry Huxley No delusion is greater than the notion that method and industry can make up for lack of mother-wit, either in science or in practical life.
    Thomas Henry Huxley
    English biologist (1825 - 1895)
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  • Robert Southey No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth.
    Robert Southey
    British writer (1774 - 1843)
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  • Friedrich von Schiller No doubt the artist is the child of his time; but woe to him if he is also its disciple, or even its favorite.
    Friedrich von Schiller
    German poet and playwright (1759 - 1805)
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  • Robert Lynd No doubt there are other important things in life besides conflict, but there are not many things so inevitably interesting.
    Robert Lynd
    American sociologist (1892 - 1970)
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  • Ezra Pound No good poetry is ever written in a manner twenty years old, for to write in such a manner shows conclusively that the writer thinks from books, convention and cliché, not from real life.
    Ezra Pound
    American poet (1885 - 1972)
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  • Ronald Reagan No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we'll ever see on this earth!
    Ronald Reagan
    American politician and actor (1911 - 2004)
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  • Emma Goldman No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law. How can it be within the law? The law is stationary. The law is fixed. The law is a chariot wheel which binds us all regardless of conditions or place or time.
    Emma Goldman
    American anarchist (1869 - 1940)
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  • Epictetus No greater thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.
    Epictetus
    Roman philosopher (50 - 130)
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  • José Saramago No human being can achieve all he or she desires in this life except in dreams, so good night all.
    José Saramago
    Portugese writer (1922 - 2010)
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  • Ernest Renan No idea can succeed except at the expense of sacrifice; no one ever escapes without enduring strain from the struggle of life.
    Ernest Renan
    French writer and critic (1823 - 1892)
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  • Ellen Glasgow No life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it.
    Ellen Glasgow
    American writer (1873 - 1945)
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  • Helen Rowland No man can understand why a woman shouldn't prefer a good reputation to a good time.
    Helen Rowland
    American journalist (1875 - 1950)
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  • Napoleon Hill No man ever achieved worth-while success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure.
    Napoleon Hill
    American self-help author (1883 - 1970)
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  • Groucho Marx No man goes before his time - unless the boss leaves early.
    Groucho Marx
    American comic actor (1890 - 1977)
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  • Phillips Brooks No man has come to true greatness who has not felt that his life belongs to his race, and that which God gives to him, He gives him for mankind.
    Phillips Brooks
    American Minister, Poet (1835 - 1893)
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