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  • Thomas E. Lawrence To have news value is to have a tin can tied to one's tail.
    Thomas E. Lawrence
    British archaeologist, military officer, diplomat, and writer (1888 - 1935)
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  • Charles Horton Cooley To have no heroes is to have no aspiration, to live on the momentum of the past, to be thrown back upon routine, sensuality, and the narrow self.
    Charles Horton Cooley
    American sociologist (1864 - 1929)
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  • Blaise Pascal To have no time for philosophy is to be a true philosopher.
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Malcolm X To have once been a criminal is no disgrace. To remain a criminal is the disgrace.
    Malcolm X
    American activist (1925 - 1965)
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  • Sir William Osler To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals - this alone is worth the struggle.
    Sir William Osler
    Canadian Physician (1849 - 1919)
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  • Joan Didion To have that sense of one's intrinsic worth which constitutes self-respect is potentially to have everything: the ability to discriminate, to love and to remain indifferent. To lack it is to be locked within oneself, paradoxically incapable of either love or indifference.
    Joan Didion
    American Essayist (1934 - 2021)
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  • Bobby Bowden To have the kind of year you want to have, something has to happen that you can't explain why it happened. Something has to happen that you can't coach.
    Bobby Bowden
    American football coach (1929 - )
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  • Oscar Wilde To have the reputation of possessing the most perfect social tact, talk to every woman as if you loved her, and to every man as if he bored you.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Zsa Zsa Gabor To have twenty lovers in one year is easy. To have one lover for twenty years is difficult.
    Zsa Zsa Gabor
    American actrice (1917 - 2016)
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  • George Macdonald To have what we want is riches; but to be able to do without is power.
    George Macdonald
    Scottish writer (1824 - 1905)
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne To honor him whom we have made is far from honoring him that hath made us..
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Mother Teresa To keep a lamp burning we have to keep putting oil in it.
    Mother Teresa
    Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic nun and missionary (1910 - 1997)
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  • Henri-Frédéric Amiel To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching. To attain it we must be able to guess what will interest; we must learn to read the childish soul as we might a piece of music. Then, by simply changing the key, we keep up the attraction and vary the song.
    Henri-Frédéric Amiel
    Swiss philosopher and poet (1821 - 1881)
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  • Charles Caleb Colton To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it. The pains of power are real; its pleasures imaginary.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Mark Caine To know the right means of getting something done is virtually to have done it.
    Mark Caine
    American writer
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  • Robert Louis Stevenson To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you ought to prefer is to have kept your soul alive.
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    Scottish writer and poet (1850 - 1894)
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  • Johann Kaspar Lavater To know yourself you have only to set down a true statement of those that ever loved or hated you.
    Johann Kaspar Lavater
    Swiss theologist and mysticist (1741 - 1801)
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  • John Henry Newman To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.
    John Henry Newman
    English theologian (1801 - 1890)
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  • Henri-Frédéric Amiel To live we must conquer incessantly, we must have the courage to be happy.
    Henri-Frédéric Amiel
    Swiss philosopher and poet (1821 - 1881)
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  • Jane Austen To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive.
    Jane Austen
    English writer (1775 - 1817)
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