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  • Francis Bacon Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Jesse Jackson Hold your head high, stick your chest out. You can make it. It gets dark sometimes, but morning comes. Keep hope alive.
    Jesse Jackson
    American Clergyman, Civil Rights Leader (1941 - )
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  • Bonnie Hunt Hollywood is what you make it; you have to choose company with care because you become what they are.
    Bonnie Hunt
    American actress, comedian, director and producer (1961 - )
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  • Ben Bernanke Home purchases that are very highly leveraged or unaffordable subject the borrower and lender to a great deal of risk. Moreover, even in a strong economy, unforeseen life events and risks in local real estate markets make highly leveraged borrowers vulnerable.
    Ben Bernanke
    American economist (1953 - )
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  • Alice Walker Horses make a landscape look beautiful.
    Alice Walker
    American Author, Critic (1944 - 1982)
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  • Ben Horowitz How do you make your company a good place to work in general? That's a really, really, really large and complex set of skills. A lot of it is on-the-job training, combined with excellent mentorship.
    Ben Horowitz
    American businessman, investor, blogger, and author (1966 - )
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  • Mark Twain How easy it is to make people believe a lie, and [how] hard it is to undo that work again!
    Autobiography of Mark Twain (2013) 302
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Eric Hoffer How frighteningly few are the persons whose death would spoil our appetite and make the world seem empty.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Blake Farenthold How is having every phone call that I make to my wife, to my daughter, relevant to any terror investigation?
    Blake Farenthold
    American politician and lobbyist (1961 - )
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  • Henry Louis Mencken How little it takes to make life unbearable: a pebble in the shoe, a cockroach in the spaghetti, a woman's laugh.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Nicolas Chamfort How many fools does it take to make up a public?
    Nicolas Chamfort
    French writer, journalist and playwright (1741 - 1794)
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  • Abraham Lincoln How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Joseph Joubert How many people make themselves abstract to appear profound. The most useful part of abstract terms are the shadows they create to hide a vacuum.
    Joseph Joubert
    French writer (1754 - 1824)
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  • Blaise Pascal How much greater confidence has an advocate, retained with a large fee, in the justice of his cause! How much better does his bold manner make his case appear to the judges, deceived as they are by appearances! How ludicrous is reason, blown with a breath in every direction!
    Pensees (1669)
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Alice James How sick one gets of being ''good,'' how much I should respect myself if I could burst out and make everyone wretched for twenty-four hours; embody selfishness.
    Alice James
    American diarist (1848 - 1892)
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  • Bill Hybels How would you feel if your prayer requests were made public, displayed on a billboard or marquee? Dear Lord, make me famous. Make me rich.
    Too Busy Not to Pray
    Bill Hybels
    American church figure and author (1951 - )
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  • Auberon Herbert How, then, can the rights of three men exceed the rights of two men? In what possible way can the rights of three men absorb the rights of two men, and make them as if they had never existed.
    Auberon Herbert
    British writer, theorist, philosopher
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  • Alexis de Tocqueville However energetically society in general may strive to make all the citizens equal and alike, the personal pride of each individual will always make him try to escape from the common level, and he will form some inequality somewhere to his own profit.
    Alexis de Tocqueville
    French aristocrat, political philosopher and sociologist (1805 - 1859)
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  • Bob Riley However, before we make the mistake of patting ourselves on the back, let's remember: government does not create jobs. It only helps create the conditions that make jobs more or less likely. The real credit for our economic renewal belongs to the people of Alabama .
    Bob Riley
    American politician (1944 - )
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  • George Eliot Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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