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  • Ashleigh Brilliant My life has been greatly influenced by many books which I have never read.
    Ashleigh Brilliant
    American author and cartoonist (1933 - )
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  • Dag Hammarskjöld Never measure the height of a mountain, until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.
    Dag Hammarskjöld
    Swedish diplomat (1905 - 1961)
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  • Thomas Jefferson Never spend your money before you have earned it.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Rabindranath Tagore No civilized society can thrive upon victims, whose humanity has been permanently mutilated.
    Rabindranath Tagore
    Indian mystic and poet (1861 - 1941)
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  • Eric Hoffer No matter what our achievements might be, we think well of ourselves only in rare moments. We need people to bear witness against our inner judge, who keeps book on our shortcomings and transgressions. We need people to convince us that we are not as bad as we think we are.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • James T. Mccay No matter what the level of your ability, you have more potential than you can ever develop in a lifetime.
    James T. Mccay
    American author
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  • Lord George Byron No more we meet in yonder bowers Absence has made me prone to roving; But older, firmer hearts than ours, Have found monotony in loving.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Bell Hooks No other group in America has so had their identity socialized out of existence as have black women... When black people are talked about the focus tends to be on black men; and when women are talked about the focus tends to be on white women.
    Bell Hooks
    American author, professor, feminist (born G.J.Watkins) (1952 - 2021)
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  • Eugène Ionesco No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa.
    Eugène Ionesco
    Romanian - French writer (1909 - 1994)
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  • Winston Churchill No two on earth in all things can agree. All have some daring singularity.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Bennet Omalu No, no, I don't watch football. The last time I tried watching was the last Super Bowl. The problem I have is, you know, the graphic nature of my imagination; when I watch and see them meeting head onto head, helmet onto helmet, what flashes through my mind is what's going on in their brains. It's like torture to me.
    Bennet Omalu
    Nigerian-American physician and neuropathologist (1968 - )
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  • Ezra Pound Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.
    Ezra Pound
    American poet (1885 - 1972)
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  • Louis Aragon O reason, reason, abstract phantom of the waking state, I had already expelled you from my dreams, now I have reached a point where those dreams are about to become fused with apparent realities: now there is only room here for myself.
    Louis Aragon
    French poet (1897 - 1982)
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  • Bill Hader Oddly enough, I have really bad stage fright - getting up in front of people. And I made a living going on live television.
    Bill Hader
    American actor, comedian, writer, producer, and director (1978 - )
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  • Henry David Thoreau On the death of a friend, we should consider that the fates through confidence have devolved on us the task of a double living, that we have henceforth to fulfill the promise of our friend's life also, in our own, to the world.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Ashleigh Brilliant One problem I have definitely solved is the problem of not having enough to worry about.
    Ashleigh Brilliant
    American author and cartoonist (1933 - )
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  • L'Chiam Our great men have written words of wisdom to be used when hardship must be faced. Life obliges us with hardship so the words of wisdom shouldn't go to waste.
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  • Charles F. Kettering Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.
    Charles F. Kettering
    American inventor (1876 - 1958)
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  • Joseph Addison Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Sidney Madwed Our subconscious minds have no sense of humor, play no jokes and cannot tell the difference between reality and an imagined thought or image. What we continually think about eventually will manifest in our lives.
    Sidney Madwed
    American business consultant, lyricist and author
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