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  • Henry David Thoreau If you can speak what you will never hear, if you can write what you will never read, you have done rare things.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Abbie Hoffman If you don't have sex and you don't do drugs, your rock 'n' roll better be awfully good.
    Abbie Hoffman
    American political and social activist (1936 - 1989)
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  • Bob Hope If you haven't got any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble.
    Bob Hope
    American comedian, actor (1903 - 2003)
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  • Stephen R. Covey If you're proactive, you don't have to wait for circumstances or other people to create perspective expanding experiences. You can consciously create your own.
    Stephen R. Covey
    American educator, author and businessman (1932 - 2012)
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  • Peter Cochrane Imagine a school with children that can read or write, but with teachers who can not, and you have a metaphor of the Information Age in which we live.
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  • Carol Gilligan Implicitly adopting the male life as the norm, they have tried to fashion women out of a masculine cloth. It all goes back to Adam and Eve a story which shows... that if you make a woman out of man, you are bound to get into trouble.
    Carol Gilligan
    American feminist, ethicist and psychologist (1936 - )
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  • Ouida In a few generations more, there will probably be no room at all allowed for animals on the earth: no need of them, no toleration of them. An immense agony will have then ceased, but with it there will also have passed away the last smile of the world's youth.
    Ouida
    English novelist, pseudonym of Maria Louise Ramé (1839 - 1908)
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  • B. R. Ambedkar In Hinduism, conscience, reason and independent thinking have no scope for development.
    B. R. Ambedkar
    Indian jurist, economist and politician (1891 - 1956)
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  • Barbara Mandrell In my garden, which is a big garden, I have one part that is my bird garden, and every morning, 365 days a year, they get buckets of food - for the birds, for the squirrels, the chipmunks and the turtles in the summer.
    Barbara Mandrell
    American country music singer, musician, and actress (1948 - )
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  • John Bunyan In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.
    John Bunyan
    British writer (1628 - 1688)
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  • Charles Dickens In the exhaustless catalogue of Heaven's mercies to mankind the power we have of finding some germs of comfort in the hardest trials, must ever occupy the foremost place.
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    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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  • Thomas Carlyle In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom; we have to say, Like People like Government.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Luis Bunuel In the name of Hypocrites, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival.
    Luis Bunuel
    Spanish director (1900 - 1983)
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  • Brin-Jonathan Butler In the United States in the 20th century, every major event that America was going through, there was a boxer who seemed to symbolically represent it, from slavery to the Vietnam War to the Depression - all the way along, you just seemed to have boxers that carried the narrative.
    Brin-Jonathan Butler
    American journalist and filmmaker
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  • Abraham Lincoln It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Rose Kennedy It has been said, 'time heals all wounds.' I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue and the pain lessens. But it is never gone.
    Rose Kennedy
    American philanthropist and mother of John F. Kennedy (1890 - 1995)
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  • Man Ray It has never been my object to record my dreams, just the determination to realize them.
    Man Ray
    American visual artist (1890 - 1976)
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  • Elbert Hubbard It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test.
    Elbert Hubbard
    American writer and publisher (1856 - 1915)
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  • Mark Twain It is by the fortune of God that, in this country, we have three benefits: freedom of speech, freedom of thought, and the wisdom never to use either.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Joseph Addison It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of ;antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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