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  • Alexander Dubcek In the first day of the Soviet Army's arrival, I and the other comrades were isolated and then found ourselves here, not knowing anything... I can only conjecture what could have happened.
    Alexander Dubcek
    Czechoslovak and Slovak politician (1921 - 1992)
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  • David Ogilvy In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative original thinker unless you can also sell what you create. Management cannot be expected to recognize a good idea unless it is presented to them by a good salesman.
    David Ogilvy
    American businessman, Advertising Expert (1911 - 1999)
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  • Agnes Repplier In the stress of modern life, how little room is left for that most comfortable vanity that whispers in our ears that failures are not faults! Now we are taught from infancy that we must rise or fall upon our own merits; that vigilance wins success, and incapacity means ruin.
    Agnes Repplier
    American writer and social criticus (1855 - 1950)
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  • Raoul Vaneigem In the twentieth century, death terrifies men less than the absence of real life. All these dead, mechanized, specialized actions, stealing a little bit of life a thousand times a day until the mind and body are exhausted, until that death which is not the
    Raoul Vaneigem
    Belgian philosopher (1934 - )
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  • Brett Ratner In this day and age, you need a lot of patience if you are in the movie business.
    Brett Ratner
    American director and producer (1969 - )
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  • Alice Munro In twenty years I've never had a day when I didn't have to think about someone else's needs. And this means the writing has to be fitted around it.
    Alice Munro
    Canadian short story writer (1931 - )
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  • Nikita Ivanovich Panin In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the years are short and day's long.
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  • Anita Desai India is a curious place that still preserves the past, religions, and its history. No matter how modern India becomes, it is still very much an old country.
    Anita Desai
    Indian novelist (1937 - )
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  • Ronald Reagan Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders.
    Ronald Reagan
    American politician and actor (1911 - 2004)
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  • Clarence Day Information's pretty thin stuff unless mixed with experience.
    Clarence Day
    American author and cartoonist (1874 - 1935)
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  • Charles Baudelaire Inspiration comes of working every day.
    Charles Baudelaire
    French poet (1821 - 1867)
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  • Bernie S. Siegel Inspiration is the greatest gift because it opens your life to many new possibilities. Each day becomes more meaningful, and your life is enhanced when your actions are guided by what inspires you.
    Bernie S. Siegel
    American writer and pediatric surgeon (1932 - )
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  • Bubba Watson Instead of playing with army men or whatever, I played golf, like for hours every day.
    Bubba Watson
    American professional golfer (1978 - )
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  • Henry Ward Beecher Interest works night and day in fair weather and in foul. It gnaws at a man's substance with invisible teeth.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Woody Allen Interestingly, according to modern astronomers, space is finite. This is a very comforting thought - particularly for people who can never
    Woody Allen
    American movie director and actor (1935 - )
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  • Mao Tse-Tung Investigation may be likened to the long months of pregnancy, and solving a problem to the day of birth. To investigate a problem is, indeed, to solve it.
    Mao Tse-Tung
    Chinese politician (1893 - 1976)
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  • A. N. Wilson IQ in general has improved since tests first began. Psychologists think that this is because modern life becomes ever more complicated.
    A. N. Wilson
    English writer and columnist (1950 - )
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  • Maximilien Robespierre Is it to be thought unreasonable that the people, in atonement for wrongs of a century, demand the vengeance of a single day?
    Maximilien Robespierre
    French lawyer and statesman (1758 - 1794)
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  • Angela Merkel It certainly is dangerous that there are only a few clubs left in Europe that can afford to pay millions. At the end of the day however, the spectators decide the rates of pay - by watching the games and consuming the goods and services advertised on sports TV programmes.
    Angela Merkel
    German politician and chancellor (1954 - )
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  • Benjamin Disraeli It destroys one's nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.
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    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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