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  • Hitopadesa No wise person should make known the loss of fortune, any malpractice in their house, his being cheated, or having been disgraced.
    Hitopadesa
    Indian text in Sanskrit
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  • Bill Clinton No wonder Americans hate politics when, year in and year out, they hear politicians make promises that won't come true because they don't even mean them - campaign fantasies that win elections but don't get nations moving again.
    Source: Detroit Economic Club, August 21, 1992
    Bill Clinton
    President of the US (1946 - )
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  • Alva Myrdal Nobel was a genuine friend of peace. He even went so far as to believe that he had invented a tool of destruction, dynamite, which would make war so senseless that it would become impossible. He was wrong.
    Alva Myrdal
    Swedish sociologist, diplomat and politician (1902 - 1986)
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  • Eleanor Roosevelt Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent.
    Eleanor Roosevelt
    American "First Lady" and columnist (1884 - 1962)
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  • Alice Walker Nobody is as powerful as we make them out to be.
    Alice Walker
    American Author, Critic (1944 - 1982)
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  • Blake Farenthold Nobody likes to make a hard decision, because you're running every two years.
    Blake Farenthold
    American politician and lobbyist (1961 - )
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  • Bobby Vinton Nobody really thought I was going to make it, because I was a musician. I really wasn't a singer.
    Bobby Vinton
    American singer and songwriter (1935 - )
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  • Jerry Garcia Nobody stopped thinking about those psychedelic experiences. Once you've been to some of those places, you think, ''How can I get back there again but make it a little easier on myself?''
    Jerry Garcia
    American singer-songwriter and guitarist (1942 - 1995)
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  • Beth Broderick Nobody wants to sit where I'm sitting and say, 'Hey, this is the reality. I did two movies, six guest-star spots and I starred in a one-woman show, and I'm not making any money. I'm on TV every day in every country in the world, and I don't make any money.'
    Beth Broderick
    American actress (1959 - )
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  • Bob Sheppard Nobody, but nobody stays a public-address announcer for more than a couple of years. Truly. Public-address announcing is not a career. Public-address announcers only work 81 days a year, so you don't make a living.
    Bob Sheppard
     
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  • Antonia Fraser Normally I make myself swim, do exercises. For zest I like going to the cinema.
    Antonia Fraser
    British author of history, novels, biographies and detective (1932 - )
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  • Thomas Wolfe Not even the most powerful organs of the press, including Time, Newsweek, and The New York Times, can discover a new artist or certify his work and make it stick. They can only bring you the scores.
    Thomas Wolfe
    American writer and journalist (1900 - 1938)
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  • Alcaeus of Mytilene Not houses finely roofed or the stones of walls well builded, nay nor canals and dockyards make the city, but men able to use their opportunity.
    Alcaeus of Mytilene
    Ancient Greek poet
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  • Søren Kierkegaard Not just in commerce but in the world of ideas too our age is putting on a veritable clearance sale. Everything can be had so dirt cheap that one begins to wander whether in the end anyone will want to make a bid.
    Søren Kierkegaard
    Danish philosopher (1813 - 1855)
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  • Alexis de Tocqueville Not only does democracy make every man forget his ancestors, but also clouds their view of their descendants and isolates them from their contemporaries. Each man is for ever thrown back on himself alone, and there is danger that he may be shut up in the solitude of his own heart.
    Alexis de Tocqueville
    French aristocrat, political philosopher and sociologist (1805 - 1859)
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  • Ben Affleck Not that it entirely matters: There is a perception that all actors make their movies. A lot of people assume you're responsible. George Clooney told me actors get all of the blame and all the credit.
    Ben Affleck
    American actor and filmmaker. (1972 - )
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  • Brantley Gilbert Not to take anything away from artists who don't write their own songs, but it's always been important to me to make sure it's my story.
    Brantley Gilbert
    American country music singer, songwriter (1985 - )
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  • David Livingstone Nothing earthly will make me give up my work in despair.
    David Livingstone
    Scottish explorer, Christian Congregationalist and missionary (1813 - 1873)
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  • William S. Burroughs Nothing exists until or unless it is observed. An artist is making something exist by observing it. And his hope for other people is that they will also make it exist by observing it. I call it ''creative observation.'' Creative viewing.
    William S. Burroughs
    American writer and artist (1914 - 1997)
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  • Ben Stein Nothing happens by itself. It all will come your way, once you understand that you have to make it come your way, by your own exertions.
    Ben Stein
    American professor, writer
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