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  • Antonin Artaud So long as we have failed to eliminate any of the causes of human despair, we do not have the right to try to eliminate those means by which man tries to cleanse himself of despair.
    Antonin Artaud
    French producer and actor (1896 - 1948)
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  • Benjamin Franklin So much for industry, my friends, and attention to one's own business; but to these we must add frugality if we would make our industry more certainly successful. A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose all his life to the grindstone, and die not worth a grout at last.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Edward Dahlberg So much of our lives is given over to the consideration of our imperfections that there is no time to improve our imaginary virtues. The truth is we only perfect our vices, and man is a worse creature when he dies than he was when he was born.
    Edward Dahlberg
    American novelist, essayist and autobiographer (1900 - 1977)
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Stephen Hawking So next time someone complains that you have made a mistake, tell him that may be a good thing. Because without imperfection, neither you nor I would exist.
    Into The Universe with Stephen Hawking (2010)
    Stephen Hawking
    English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, author and Director (1942 - 2018)
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  • Boethius So nothing is ever good or bad unless you think it so, and vice versa. All luck is good luck to the man who bears it with equanimity.
    Boethius
    Roman senator, consul, magister officiorum, and philosopher (480 - 524)
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  • John Dryden So over violent, or over civil that every man with him was God or Devil.
    John Dryden
    English poet and playwright (1631 - 1700)
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  • Bruce Springsteen So they put a rifle in my hand Sent me off to a foreign land To go and kill the yellow man Born in the U.S.A.
    Born in the U.S.A. (1984)
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Barack Obama So while an incredible amount of progress has been made, on this fifth anniversary, I wanted to come here and tell the people of this city directly: My administration is going to stand with you - and fight alongside you - until the job is done. Until New Orleans is all the way back, all the way.
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • P. J. O'Rourke Social Security is a government program with a constituency made up of the old, the near old and those who hope or fear to grow old. After 215 years of trying, we have finally discovered a special interest that includes 100 percent of the population. Now we can vote ourselves rich.
    P. J. O'Rourke
    American journalist (1947 - )
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  • Virginia Woolf Some collaboration has to take place in the mind between the woman and the man before the art of creation can be accomplished. Some marriage of opposites has to be consummated. The whole of the mind must lie wide open if we are to get the sense that the
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Billie Holiday Some men like me talkin' happy
    Some calls it snappy
    Some call me honey
    Others think I got money
    Some tell me baby you're built for speed
    Now if you put that all together
    Makes me everything a good man needs.
    Billies Blues
    Billie Holiday
    American jazz musician and singer-songwriter (1915 - 1959)
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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Some men must follow, and some command, though all are made of clay.
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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  • Carl Sagan Some part of our being knows this is where we came from. We long to return. And we can. Because the cosmos is also within us. We're made of star-stuff. We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.
    Cosmos: A Personal Voyage (1990) 06 min 04 sec
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Helen Rowland Some women can be fooled all of the time, and all women can be fooled some of the time, but the same woman can't be fooled by the same man in the same way more than half of the time.
    Helen Rowland
    American journalist (1875 - 1950)
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  • Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Someday, after mastering winds, waves, tides and gravity, we shall harness the energy of love; and for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.
    Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
    French Christian mystic, author (1881 - 1955)
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  • Barrett Foa Someone made me a Leaf Coneybear finger puppet. Someone made me a portrait of me on some chocolate. I'm keeping it. I daren't eat such a work of art. It's so unique and so fun that fans do that. It's incredibly flattering. I like it when people spend time on me. People don't spend the same amount of time on my brother who's an insurance broker.
    Barrett Foa
    American bari-tenor singer, dancer, and actor (1977 - )
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  • Plutarch Someone praising a man for his foolhardy bravery, Cato, the elder, said, ''There is a wide difference between true courage and a mere contempt of life.''
    Plutarch
    Greek biographer and essayist (46 - 120)
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  • Maya Angelou Something made greater by ourselves and in turn that makes us greater.
    Maya Angelou
    African-American poet and writer (1928 - 2014)
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  • William Somerset Maugham Sometimes a man hits upon a place to which he mysteriously feels that he belongs.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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