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  • Groucho Marx Getting older is no problem. You just have to live long enough.
    Groucho Marx
    American comic actor (1890 - 1977)
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  • Victor Hugo Have courage for the great sorrows of life, and patience for the small ones. When you have laboriously accomplished your daily tasks, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.
    Victor Hugo
    French writer (1802 - 1885)
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  • St. Francis de Sales Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections, but instantly set about remedying them - every day begin the task anew -
    St. Francis de Sales
    Bishop of Geneva and is honored as a saint in the Catholic Church (1567 - 1622)
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  • Saadi Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy.
    Saadi
    Persian poet and literary of the medieval period (1200 - 1292)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken Have you ever watched a crab on the shore crawling backward in search of the Atlantic Ocean, and missing? That's the way the mind of man operates.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne Have you known how to take rest? You have done more than he who hath taken empires and cities.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • William Shakespeare Have you not a moist eye, a dry hand, a yellow cheek, a white beard, a decreasing leg, an increasing belly? Is not your voice broken, your wind short, your chin double, your wit single, and every part about you blasted with antiquity?
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Charles Caleb Colton He that will believe only what he can fully comprehend must have a long head or a very short creed.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Aristotle He who can be, and therefore is, another's, and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend, but not to have, is a slave by nature.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Socrates He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.
    Socrates
    Greek philosopher (469 - 399)
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  • Joseph Addison He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Desiderius Erasmus Heaven grant that the burden you carry may have as easy an exit as it had an entrance. [Prayer To A Pregnant Woman]
    Desiderius Erasmus
    Dutch humanist and philosopher (1469 - 1536)
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  • Sydney Smith His enemies might have said before that he talked rather too much; but now he has occasional flashes of silence, that make his conversation perfectly delightful.
    Sydney Smith
    English writer and cleric (1856 - 1934)
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  • B. R. Ambedkar History shows that where ethics and economics come in conflict, victory is always with economics. Vested interests have never been known to have willingly divested themselves unless there was sufficient force to compel them.
    B. R. Ambedkar
    Indian jurist, economist and politician (1891 - 1956)
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  • Barry Hannah Honestly, I envy painters, who can have a masterpiece in one morning. Or musicians, who can write something in 30 minutes and arrange it in an hour, sometimes. 'Cause with this, with writing, you can occasionally feel like a caveman, like you've been working with pitch and tar on this brush.
    Barry Hannah
    American novelist (1942 - 2010)
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  • Søren Kierkegaard How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.
    Søren Kierkegaard
    Danish philosopher (1813 - 1855)
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  • Henry David Thoreau How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Molière I always write a good first line, but I have trouble in writing the others.
    Molière
    French playwright (ps. by J. B. Poquelin) (1622 - 1673)
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  • Gene Fowler I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes.
    Gene Fowler
    American journalist, author and dramatist (1890 - 1960)
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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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