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  • Rabbi Harold S. Kushner Fun can be the dessert of our lives but never its main course.
    Rabbi Harold S. Kushner
    American rabbi (1935 - )
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  • John Stuart Mill General laws may be laid down respecting the tides; predictions may be founded on those laws, and the result will in the main, though often not with complete accuracy, correspond to the predictions.
    A System of Logic, Book 6, The Logic of the Moral Sciences Ch. 3
    John Stuart Mill
    English economist (1806 - 1873)
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  • Bobby Flay Go vegetable heavy. Reverse the psychology of your plate by making meat the side dish and vegetables the main course.
    Bobby Flay
    American celebrity chef and restaurateur (1964 - )
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  • Mikhail Gorbachev I am a Communist, a convinced Communist! For some that may be a fantasy. But to me it is my main goal.
    Mikhail Gorbachev
    Russian and former Soviet politician (1931 - )
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  • William Wordsworth I am already kindly disposed towards you. My friendship it is not in my power to give: this is a gift which no man can make, it is not in our own power: a sound and healthy friendship is the growth of time and circumstance, it will spring up and thrive li
    William Wordsworth
    English poet (1770 - 1850)
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  • Henry David Thoreau I believe that what so saddens the reformer is not his sympathy with his fellows in distress, but, though he be the holiest son of God, is his private ail. Let this be righted, let the spring come to him, the morning rise over his couch, and he will forsake his generous companions without apology.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani I believe the main solution is to gain the trust of Europe and America and to remove their concerns over the peaceful nature of our nuclear industry and to assure them that there will never be a diversion to military use.
    Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
    Iranian politician and writer (1934 - 2017)
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  • Jose Ortega Y Gasset I do not deny that there may be other well-founded causes for the hatred which various classes feel toward politicians, but the main one seems to me that politicians are symbols of the fact that every class must take every other class into account.
    Jose Ortega Y Gasset
    Spanish writer and philosopher (1883 - 1955)
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  • Robert Burton I may not here omit those two main plagues, and common dotages of human kind, wine and women, which have infatuated and besotted myriads of people. They go commonly together.
    Robert Burton
    English clergyman and writer (1577 - 1640)
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  • Ernest Hemingway I still need more healthy rest in order to work at my best. My health is the main capital I have and I want to administer it intelligently.
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • Acker Bilk I'm still blowing alright, and I still enjoy it which is the main thing.
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  • Ben Bernanke I've never been on Wall Street. And I care about Wall Street for one reason and one reason only because what happens on Wall Street matters to Main Street.
    Ben Bernanke
    American economist (1953 - )
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  • Honoré de Balzac If those who are the enemies of innocent amusements had the direction of the world, they would take away the spring, and youth, the former from the year, the latter from human life.
    Honoré de Balzac
    French writer (1799 - 1850)
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  • Anne Bradstreet If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.
    Anne Bradstreet
    English American poet (1612 - 1672)
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  • Percy Bysshe Shelley If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?
    Percy Bysshe Shelley
    English poet (1792 - 1822)
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  • Andrew Coyle Bradley In Shakespearean tragedy the main source of the convulsion which produces suffering and death is never good: good contributes to this convulsion only from its tragic implication with its opposite in one and the same character.
    Andrew Coyle Bradley
    American lawyer (1844 - 1902)
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  • Adam Mickiewicz In spring's own country, where the gardens blow,
    You faded, tender rose! For hours now past,
    Like butterflies departing, on you're cast
    The worms of memories to work you woe.
    Crimean Sonnets The Grave of the Countess Potocki
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  • Alexander Hamilton In the main it will be found that a power over a man's support (salary) is a power over his will.
    Alexander Hamilton
    American statesman (1757 - 1804)
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  • Henry Rollins In winter, I plot and plan. In spring, I move.
    Henry Rollins
    American musician, actor and writer (1961 - )
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  • Agnes Repplier It has been well said that tea is suggestive of a thousand wants, from which spring the decencies and luxuries of civilization.
    Agnes Repplier
    American writer and social criticus (1855 - 1950)
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