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  • John Barrymore I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for wisdom.
    John Barrymore
    American actor (1882 - 1942)
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  • Walter Cronkite I asked [my doctors] if I'd be able to play singles tennis and they said I could. That made me very happy since I haven't played in five years.
    Walter Cronkite
    American broadcast journalist (1916 - 2009)
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  • Arthur Christopher Benson I believe in instinct, not in reason. When reason is right, nine times out of ten it is impotent, and when it prevails, nine times out of ten it is wrong.
    Arthur Christopher Benson
    English essayist, poet, author and academic (1862 - 1925)
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  • Elie Wiesel I believe that all the survivors are mad. One time or another their madness will explode. You cannot absorb that much madness and not be influenced by it. That is why the children of survivors are so tragic. I see them in school. They don't know how
    Elie Wiesel
    Rumanian-born American Writer (1928 - 2016)
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  • H. A. L. Fisher I can see only one safe rule for the historian: that he should recognize in the development of human destinies the play of the contingent and the unforeseen.
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  • Machiavelli I consider it a mark of great prudence in a man to abstain from threats or any contemptuous expressions, for neither of these weaken the enemy, but threats make him more cautious, and the other excites his hatred, and a desire to revenge himself.
    Machiavelli
    Florentine state philosopher (1469 - 1527)
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  • Dale Carnegie I deal with the obvious. I present, reiterate and glorify the obvious - because the obvious is what people need to be told.
    Dale Carnegie
    American writer and lecturer (1888 - 1955)
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  • Henry David Thoreau I do not know how to distinguish between our waking life and a dream. Are we not always living the life that we imagine we are?
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Tom Landry I don't believe in team motivation. I believe in getting a team prepared so it knows it will have the necessary confidence when it steps on a field and be prepared to play a good game.
    Tom Landry
    American football player and coach (1924 - 2000)
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  • Adrian Edmondson I don't claim that our TV comedies are highbrow in anyway, but I think there's a basis to them, and that's why they're more popular than other TV comedies. There's a basis of truth in them, a gut feeling.
    Adrian Edmondson
    British actor (1957 - )
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  • Joseph De Maistre I don't know what a scoundrel is like, but I know what a respectable man is like, and it's enough to make one's flesh creep.
    Joseph De Maistre
    French diplomat and philosopher (1753 - 1821)
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  • Jack Kerouac I don't know, I don't care, and it doesn't make any difference!
    Jack Kerouac
    American novelist and poet (1922 - 1969)
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  • Dick Clark I don't set trends. I just find out what they are and exploit them.
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  • Rainer Maria Rilke I feel it now: there's a power in me to grasp and give shape to my world I know that nothing has ever been real without my beholding it. All becoming has need me..
    Rainer Maria Rilke
    German poet (1875 - 1926)
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  • Andrew Young I have about concluded that wealth is a state of mind, and that anyone can acquire a wealthy state of mind by thinking rich thoughts.
    Andrew Young
    Amercan activisit and minister (1932 - )
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  • Abraham Lincoln I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere to go. My own wisdom, and that of all about me, seemed insufficient for the day.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Harry S. Truman I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.
    Harry S. Truman
    American president (1884 - 1972)
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  • Igor Stravinsky I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.
    Igor Stravinsky
    Russian composer (1882 - 1971)
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  • Henry David Thoreau I have lived some thirty-odd years on this planet, and I have yet to hear the first syllable of valuable or even earnest advice from my seniors.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Mahatma Gandhi I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills. All I have done is to try experiments in both on as vast a scale as I could.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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