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  • Confucius The superior man will watch over himself when he is alone. He examines his heart that there may be nothing wrong there, and that he may have no cause of dissatisfaction with himself.
    Confucius
    Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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  • Hannah Whitall Smith The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not, and never persist in trying to set people right.
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  • Angela Carter The whore is despised by the hypocritical world because she has made a realistic assessment of her assets and does not have to rely on fraud to make a living. In an area of human relations where fraud is regular practice between the sexes, her honesty is regarded with a mocking wonder.
    Angela Carter
    British author (1940 - 1992)
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  • Lord Chesterfield The world can doubtless never be well known by theory: practice is absolutely necessary; but surely it is of great use to a young man, before he sets out for that country, full of mazes, windings, and turnings, to have at least a general map of it, made by some experienced traveler.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Christopher Morley There are a lot of people who must have the table laid in the usual fashion or they will not enjoy the dinner.
    Christopher Morley
    American Novelist, Journalist, Poet (1890 - 1957)
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  • Brian Moore There comes a point in many people's lives when they can no longer play the role they have chosen for themselves. When that happens, we are like actors finding that someone has changed the play.
    Brian Moore
    British writer and screenwiter (1921 - 1999)
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  • George Eliot There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Percy Bysshe Shelley There is a harmony in autumn, and a luster in its sky, which through the summer is not heard or seen, as if it could not be, as if it had not been!
    Percy Bysshe Shelley
    English poet (1792 - 1822)
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  • Booker T. Washington There is another class of colored people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs-partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs.
    My Larger Education: Being Chapters from My Experience (1911)
    Booker T. Washington
    American Black Leader and Educator (1856 - 1915)
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  • Burton Cummings There may be a new album, and there may not. Right now, we're encouraging bootlegging because there have been some great live things that ended up on the Internet. Rather than try to stop it, we like it. If nobody gave a crap about you, they wouldn't bother to bootleg you.
    Burton Cummings
    Canadian musician, singer and songwriter (1947 - )
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  • Charles Dickens There might be some credit in being jolly.
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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  • Andy Warhol They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
    Andy Warhol
    American artist (1928 - 1987)
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  • Candice S. Miller Throughout this primary process the voters have vetted each candidate and after a spirited contest they have made clear who they believe is right person to lead our ticket and that is Governor Mitt Romney. I believe they have come to this conclusion because they know that Governor Romney will begin working on day one to turn around our economy.
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  • Henry David Thoreau To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity, and trust. It is to solve some of the problems of life, not only theoretically, but practically.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Winston Churchill To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Burt Rutan Tragically, policymakers have thrown horrendous amounts of taxpayer money needed for other purposes at solving an unsubstantiated emergency. It is scandalous that so many climate scientists who fully knew that Al Gore had no basis for his irresponsible claims stood mute.
    Burt Rutan
    American aerospace engineer and entrepreneur (1943 - )
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  • Charles Caleb Colton Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Marianne Moore War is pillage versus resistance and if illusions of magnitude could be transmuted into ideals of magnanimity, peace might be realized.
    Marianne Moore
    American poet (1887 - 1972)
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  • Bill Watterson We all have different desires and needs, but if we don't discover what we want from ourselves and what we stand for, we will live passively and unfulfilled.
    Bill Watterson
    American cartoonist (1958 - )
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  • Konrad Adenauer We all live under the same sky, but we don't all have the same horizon.
    Konrad Adenauer
    German politician (1876 - 1967)
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