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  • John N. Mitchell Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.
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  • Adolf Hitler Generals think war should be waged like the tourneys of the Middle Ages. I have no use for knights; I need revolutionaries.
    Adolf Hitler
    German politician (1889 - 1945)
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  • Douglas Jerrold He was so benevolent, so merciful a man that, in his mistaken passion, he would have held an umbrella over a duck in a shower of rain.
    Douglas Jerrold
    English journalist and playwright (1803 - 1857)
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  • Ashleigh Brilliant History may never have all the facts, but history always has the last word.
    Ashleigh Brilliant
    American author and cartoonist (1933 - )
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  • Voltaire I advise you to go on living solely to enrage those who are paying your annuities. It is the only pleasure I have left.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • Ayn Rand I don't build in order to have clients. I have clients in order to build.
    Ayn Rand
    Russian Writer, Philosopher (1905 - 1982)
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  • J. B. Priestley I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning...
    J. B. Priestley
    English novelist, playwright and scriptwriter (1894 - 1984)
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  • Jonathan Swift I have heard say that complimenting is lying.
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    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • Diana Spencer Princess of Wales I've got to have a place where I can find peace of mind.
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  • Rodney Dangerfield If it weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
    Rodney Dangerfield
    American comedian, actor (1921 - 2004)
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  • Luther Burbank If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed.
    Luther Burbank
    American botanist, horticulturist and pioneer (1849 - 1926)
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  • Benjamin Franklin If you can't pay for a thing, don't buy it. If you can't get paid for it, don't sell it. Do this, and you will have calm and drowsy nights, with all of the good business you have now and none of the bad. If you have time, don't wait for time.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • C. S. Lewis If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Voltaire In my life, I have prayed but one prayer: oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • Ansel Adams In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.
    Ansel Adams
    American landscape photographer and environmentalist (1902 - 1984)
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  • Joan Welsh Influence: What you think you have until you try to use it.
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  • Mark Twain It is a good idea to obey all the rules when you're young just so you'll have the strength to break them when you're old.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • George Eliot It is possible to have a strong self-love without any self-satisfaction, rather with a self-discontent which is the more intense because one's own little core of egoistic sensibility is a supreme care.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Woody Allen More than any time in history mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness, the other to total extinction. Let us pray that we have the wisdom to choose correctly.
    Woody Allen
    American movie director and actor (1935 - )
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  • Sir John Lubbock Our duty is to believe that for which we have sufficient evidence, and to suspend our judgment when we have not.
    Sir John Lubbock
    British statesman and banker (1834 - 1913)
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