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  • Buffalo Bill The first trip of the Pony Express was made in ten days - an average of two hundred miles a day. But we soon began stretching our riders and making better time.
    The Buffalo Bill Megapack: 5 Classic Books About Buffalo Bill Cody (2013 edition), Wildside Press LLC
    Buffalo Bill
    American soldier, bison hunter, and showman (1846 - 1917)
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  • Robert Alan The flower of kindness will grow. Maybe not now, but it will some day. And in kind that kindness will flow, For kindness grows in this way.
    Robert Alan
    American singer/songwriter and comic book creator (1971 - )
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  • Bryce Harper The full thing is God-given. I don't know how I got my swing or what I did. I know I worked every single day. I know I did as much as I could with my dad. But I never really looked at anything mechanical. There was nothing really like, 'Oh, put your hands here.' It was, 'Where are you comfortable? You're comfortable here; hit from there.'
    Bryce Harper
    American baseball player (1992 - )
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  • Dean Acheson The future comes one day at a time.
    Dean Acheson
    American statesman and lawyer. (1893 - 1971)
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  • Gloria Steinem The future depends entirely on what each of us does every day.
    Gloria Steinem
    American feminist writer (1934 - )
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  • William Somerset Maugham The future will one day be the present and will seem as unimportant as the present does now.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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  • Virgil The gates of Hell are open night and day; smooth the descent, and easy is the way: but, to return, and view the cheerful skies; in this, the task and mighty labor lies.
    Virgil
    Roman poet (70 - 19)
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  • Robert Alan The good deed you do today For a brother or sister in need Will come back to you some day For humanity's a circle in deed.
    Robert Alan
    American singer/songwriter and comic book creator (1971 - )
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  • Benjamin Disraeli The governments of the present day have to deal not merely with other governments, with emperors, kings and ministers, but also with the secret societies which have everywhere their unscrupulous agents, and can at the last moment upset all the governments' plans.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Otto Von Bismarck The great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority decisions but by iron and blood.
    Otto Von Bismarck
    German statesman and prime minister (1815 - 1898)
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  • Buffalo Bill The greatest of all the Sioux in my time, or in any time for that matter, was that wonderful old fighting man, Sitting Bull, whose life will some day be written by a historian who can really give him his due.
    An Autobiography of Buffalo Bill (1920)
    Buffalo Bill
    American soldier, bison hunter, and showman (1846 - 1917)
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  • Carine Roitfeld The hair and makeup is very important in a fashion picture. When I create a look for a girl, it starts with the makeup. Sometimes it takes an entire day to find the look.
    Carine Roitfeld
    French fashion editor (1954 - )
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  • Charles Dickens The hardest and best borne trials are those which are never chronicled in any earthly record and are suffered every day.
    Old Curiosity Shop
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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  • Wayne Gretzky The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.
    Wayne Gretzky
    Canadian ice hockey player and coach (1961 - )
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  • Bernhard von Bulow The history of England, who has always dealt most harshly with her vanquished foe in the few European wars in which she has taken part in modern times, gives us Germans an idea of the fate in store for us if defeated.
    Bernhard von Bulow
    German diplomat and politician (1849 - 1929)
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  • Bernard Crick The idea of a rational bureaucracy, of skill, merit, and consistency, is essential to all modern states.
    In Defence Of Politics Ch. 7, In Praise Of Politics, p. 143
    Bernard Crick
    British political theorist (1929 - 2008)
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  • Carolyn Murphy The industry's much quicker. The turnover with models - I cannot keep up. And in my day, we had so much personality. We probably caused a lot more trouble, but it was fun.
    Carolyn Murphy
    American model and actress (1974 - )
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg The journalists have constructed for themselves a little wooden chapel, which they also call the Temple of Fame, in which they put up and take down portraits all day long and make such a hammering you can't hear yourself speak.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Henry David Thoreau The laboring man has not leisure for a true integrity day by day.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Arthur Scargill The labour movement had the best opportunity in 50 years to transform not merely an industrial situation and win an important battle for workers in struggle, but an opportunity to change the government of the day.
    Arthur Scargill
    British trade unionist (1938 - )
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