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  • Alan Watts A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world.
    Alan Watts
    English philosopher, priest and writer (1915 - 1973)
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  • Charles Dickens A person who can't pay gets another person who can't pay to guarantee that he can pay. Like a person with two wooden legs getting another person with two wooden legs to guarantee that he has got two natural legs. It don't make either of them able to do a walking-match.
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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  • Abraham Lincoln A person will be just about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Bernard Crick A politics of vengeance is not politics. Revenge is a recklessness towards the future in a vain attempt to make the present abolish a suffering which is already past.
    In Defence Of Politics Ch. 4, A Defence Of Politics Against Nationalism,
    Bernard Crick
    British political theorist (1929 - 2008)
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  • Herm Albright A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
    Herm Albright
    German-American painter and columnist (1876 - 1944)
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  • Thomas Hardy A resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.
    Thomas Hardy
    British writer and poet (1840 - 1928)
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  • Simone Weil A self-respecting nation is ready for anything, including war, except for a renunciation of its option to make war.
    Simone Weil
    French philosopher (1909 - 1943)
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  • Paul Klee A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller.
    Paul Klee
    Swiss artist (1879 - 1940)
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  • Abraham Joshua Heschel A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children. But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.
    Abraham Joshua Heschel
    Polish-American rabbi (1907 - 1972)
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  • Annie Leibovitz A very subtle difference can make the picture or not.
    Annie Leibovitz
    American portrait photographer (1949 - )
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  • Ben Horowitz A wartime C.E.O. may not delegate. They make every decision based on the next product release. They may use a lot of profanity.
    Ben Horowitz
    American businessman, investor, blogger, and author (1966 - )
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  • Mary Baker Eddy A wicked mortal is not the idea of God. He is little else than the expression of error. To suppose that sin, lust, hatred, envy, hypocrisy, revenge, have life abiding in them, is a terrible mistake. Life and Life's idea, Truth and Truth's idea, never make men sick, sinful, or mortal.
    Mary Baker Eddy
    American founder of the Christian Science Church (1821 - 1910)
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  • Francis Bacon A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Anna Held A woman must make her fortune before she is 30; or work after she is 30; or get married.
    Anna Held
    Polish-born stage performer and singer (1872 - 1918)
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  • Barbara Cartland A woman should say: "Have I made him happy? Is he satisfied? Does he love me more than he loved me before? Is he likely to go to bed with another woman?" If he does, then it's the wife's fault because she is not trying to make him happy.
    Barbara Cartland
    English author of romance novels (1901 - 2000)
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  • Barbara Cartland A woman should say: 'Have I made him happy? Is he satisfied? Does he love me more than he loved me before? Is he likely to go to bed with another woman?' If he does, then it's the wife's fault because she is not trying to make him happy.
    Barbara Cartland
    English author of romance novels (1901 - 2000)
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  • James Thurber A word to the wise is not sufficient if it doesn't make sense.
    James Thurber
    American cartoonist (1894 - 1961)
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  • Karl Kraus A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer.
    Karl Kraus
    Austrian writer and journalist (1874 - 1936)
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  • John F. Kennedy A young man who does not have what it takes to perform military service is not likely to have what it takes to make a living.
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • Kurt Vonnegut About astrology and palmistry: they are good because they make people vivid and full of possibilities. They are communism at its best. Everybody has a birthday and almost everybody has a palm.
    Kurt Vonnegut
    American writer (1922 - 2007)
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