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  • John Ciardi The Constitution gives every American the inalienable right to make a damn fool of himself.
    John Ciardi
    American teacher, poet, writer (1916 - 1986)
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  • Gertrude Stein The contemporary thing in art and literature is the thing which doesn't make enough difference to the people of that generation so that they can accept it or reject it.
    Gertrude Stein
    American author (1874 - 1946)
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  • Thomas Jefferson The Creator has not thought proper to mark those in the forehead who are of stuff to make good generals. We are first, therefore, to seek them blindfold, and then let them learn the trade at the expense of great losses.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Edwin Hubbel Chapin The creed of a true saint is to make the best of life, and to make the most of it.
    Edwin Hubbel Chapin
    American author and clergyman (1814 - 1880)
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  • Bell Hooks The crisis facing men is not the crisis of masculinity, it is the crisis of patriarchal masculinity. Until we make this distinction clear, men will continue to fear that any critique of patriarchy represents a threat.
    The Will To Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love
    Bell Hooks
    American author, professor, feminist (born G.J.Watkins) (1952 - 2021)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The crowning fortune of a man is to be born to some pursuit which finds him employment and happiness, whether it be to make baskets, or broadswords, or canals, or statues, or songs.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Bryant H. McGill The deceptive, glossy media images of faces, bodies and social lifestyles, make us hate ourselves so we will buy a solution to love ourselves once again.
    Bryant H. McGill
    American journalist and author (1969 - )
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  • Alan Dershowitz The defendant wants to hide the truth because he's generally guilty. The defense attorney's job is to make sure the jury does not arrive at that truth.
    Alan Dershowitz
    American lawyer and author (1938 - )
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  • James Joyce The demand that I make of my reader is that he should devote his whole Life to reading my works.
    James Joyce
    Irish writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche The desire to create continually is vulgar and betrays jealousy, envy, ambition. If one is something one really does not need to make anything - and one nonetheless does very much. There exists above the ''productive'' man a yet higher species.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • C. S. Lewis The doctrine of the Second Coming has failed, so far as we are concerned, if it does not make us realize that at every moment of every year in our lives Donne's question What if this present were the world's last night? is equally relevant.
    The Worlds Last Night (1952)
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Al Sharpton The dream was not to put one black family in the White House, the dream was to make everything equal in everybody's house.
    Al Sharpton
    American civil rights activist, Baptist minister and talk show host (1954 - )
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  • Cary Fowler The drive behind what I do is really to make sure that people don't go to bed hungry. It's not just that I have a love of diversity, it's the importance of the uses of that diversity.
    Cary Fowler
    American agriculturalist and businessman (1949 - )
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  • Lucretius The drops of rain make a hole in the stone, not by violence, but by oft falling.
    Lucretius
    Roman poet and philosopher (95 - 55)
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  • Carl Sagan The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand.
    Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space (1994)
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Beau Willimon The economics of being a playwright are abysmal. I like to think of the work I do out in Hollywood as a way to actually make a life in the theater easier.
    Beau Willimon
    American playwright and screenwriter (1977 - )
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  • Sebastian Faulks The end-of-summer winds make people restless.
    Engleby (2007)
    Sebastian Faulks
    British novelist, journalist and broadcaster (1953 - )
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  • David Storey The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses.
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  • Srully Blotnick The evidence unmistakably indicates that you have to spend money in order to make money.
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  • Elting E. Morison The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
    Elting E. Morison
    American historian (1909 - 1995)
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