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  • Chief Seattle A few more moons, a few more winters, and not one of all the mighty hosts that once filled this broad land or that now roam in fragmentary bands through these vast solitudes will remain to weep over the tombs of a people once as powerful and as hopeful as your own. But why should we repine? Why should I murmur at the fate of my people? Tribes are made up of individuals and are no better than they. Men come and go like the waves of the sea. A tear, a tamanamus, a dirge, and they are gone from our
    Source: Speech 1854
    Chief Seattle
    Chief of the Suquamish and Duwanish Indians (1780 - 1866)
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  • Friedrich von Schiller A gloomy guest fits not a wedding feast.
    Friedrich von Schiller
    German poet and playwright (1759 - 1805)
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  • Bruce Lee A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.
    Bruce Lee
    Chinese-American Actor, Director, Author, Martial Artist (1940 - 1973)
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  • Bernice Fitz-Gibbon A good ad should be like a good sermon: It must not only comfort the afflicted, it also must afflict the comfortable.
    Source: Macys, Gimbels, and Me: How to Earn $90,000 a Year in Retail Advertising
    Bernice Fitz-Gibbon
    American advertising executive
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  • Charles Haddon Spurgeon A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you, and were helped by you, will remember you when forget-me-nots are withered. Carve your name on hearts, and not on marble
    Charles Haddon Spurgeon
    English Baptist preacher (1834 - 1892)
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  • Iris Murdoch A good man often appears gauche simply because he does not take advantage of the myriad mean little chances of making himself look stylish. Preferring truth to form, he is not constantly at work upon the façade of his appearance.
    Iris Murdoch
    Anglo-Irish novelist and philosopher (1919 - 1999)
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  • Otto Von Bismarck A government must not waiver once it has chosen it's course. It must not look to the left or right but go forward.
    Otto Von Bismarck
    German statesman and prime minister (1815 - 1898)
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  • Eric Hoffer A great man's greatest good luck is to die at the right time.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Bertrand Russell A hallucination is a fact, not an error; what is erroneous is a judgment based upon it.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Golda Meir A leader who doesn't hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.
    Golda Meir
    Prime Minister of Israel (1898 - 1978)
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  • George Jean Nathan A life spent in constant labor is a life wasted, save a man be such a fool as to regard a fulsome obituary notice as ample reward.
    George Jean Nathan
    American criticus (1882 - 1958)
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  • Thomas Paine A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason.
    Thomas Paine
    English-born American political activist, philosopher, political theor (1737 - 1809)
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  • Burning Spear A lot of things encouraged me to start my label. I think it's very important for an artist to know how many records they've sold and where they've sold. I know that I have never been treated the way I'm supposed to be treated - like an artist. That's why I do things for myself. I feel like I'm a free man.
    Burning Spear
    Jamaican reggae singer-songwriter, vocalist and musician (1945 - )
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  • John Pierpont Morgan A man always has two reasons for doing anything - a good reason and the real reason.
    John Pierpont Morgan
    American banker, financer, art collector (1837 - 1913)
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  • Ernest Hemingway A man can be destroyed but not defeated.
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • C. S. Lewis A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.
    Source: The problem of pain p. 41
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Mark Twain A man cannot be made comfortable without his own approval.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Robin George Collingwood A man ceases to be a beginner in any given science and becomes a master in that science when he has learned that he is going to be a beginner all his life.
    Robin George Collingwood
    English philosopher, historian and archaeologist (1889 - 1943)
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  • Alexander Smith A man doesn't plant a tree for himself. He plants it for posterity.
    Alexander Smith
    Scottish Poet, Author (1829 - 1867)
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