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  • Jerry Gillies People who make money often make mistakes, and even have major setbacks, but they believe they will eventually prosper, and they see every setback as a lesson to be applied in their move towards success.
    Jerry Gillies
    American writer
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes People who make puns are like wanton boys that put coppers on the railroad tracks. They amuse themselves and other children, but their little trick may upset a freight train of conversation for the sake of a battered witticism.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Brian Friel People with a culture of poverty suffer much less from repression than we of the middle class suffer and indeed, if I may make the suggestion with due qualification, they often have a hell of a lot more fun than we have.
    Brian Friel
    Irish playwright (1929 - 2015)
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  • Carly Fiorina People's ideas and fears can make them small but they cannot make you small. People's prejudices can diminish them but they cannot diminish you. Small-minded people can think they determine your worth. But only you can determine your worth.
    Carly Fiorina
    American businesswoman and political (1954 - )
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  • Jeremy Collier Perpetual pushing and assurance put a difficulty out of countenance and make a seeming difficulty gives way.
    Jeremy Collier
    English theatre critic, non-juror bishop and theologian (1650 - 1726)
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  • Charles Caleb Colton Physical courage, which engages all danger, will make a person brave in one way; and moral courage, which defies all opinion, will make a person brave in another.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Anthony Weiner Pictures get manipulated, pictures get dropped into accounts. We've asked an internet security firm and a law firm to take a hard look at this to come up with a conclusion about what happened and to make sure it doesn't happen again.
    Anthony Weiner
    American politician (1964 - )
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  • George Eliot Play not with paradoxes. That caustic which you handle in order to scorch others may happen to sear your own fingers and make them dead to the quality of things.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Samuel Johnson Players, Sir! I look on them as no better than creatures set upon tables and joint stools to make faces and produce laughter, like dancing dogs.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Beth Henley Plays are so much more special if they've never ever had a production, but I think you can really work on a play and make it better with each production.
    Beth Henley
    American playwright, screenwriter, and actress (1952 - )
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  • William Shakespeare Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Ann Coulter Political debate with liberals is basically impossible in America today because liberals are calling names while conservatives are trying to make arguments.
    Ann Coulter
    American far-right media pundit and author (1961 - )
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  • George Orwell Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable.
    Source: Politics and the English Language (1945)
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Donald Trump Politicians are making deals for their benefit. Now we are going to make the deals for the American people.
    Donald Trump
    American businessman (1946 - )
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  • Groucho Marx Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
    Groucho Marx
    American comic actor (1890 - 1977)
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  • Dick Armey Politics will sooner or later make fools of everybody.
    Dick Armey
    American economist and politician (1940 - )
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  • Bono Poverty breeds despair. We know this. Despair breeds violence. We know this. In turbulent times, isn't it cheaper, and smarter, to make friends out of potential enemies than to defend yourself against them later?
    Bono
    Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
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  • Anna Lindh Poverty does not make people terrorists, but terrorists can exploit the frustration it creates and use it as a breeding-ground for violent ideas.
    Anna Lindh
    Swedish Social Democratic politician (1957 - 2003)
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  • G.W.F. Hegel Poverty in itself does not make men into a rabble; a rabble is created only when there is joined to poverty a disposition of mind, an inner indignation against the rich, against society, against the government.
    G.W.F. Hegel
    German philosopher (1770 - 1831)
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  • Walter Bagehot Poverty is an anomaly to rich people. It is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell.
    Walter Bagehot
    English economist (1826 - 1877)
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