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  • Blake Mycoskie Giving feels good, but it's also good for the bottom line. Charity is a viable growth strategy for a lot of companies. Our customers get excited to be a part of what we're doing. If you ask anyone wearing Toms how they first heard about us, most won't mention an advertisement; they'll say a friend told them our story.
    Blake Mycoskie
    American entrepreneur, author, and philanthropist (1976 - )
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  • Samuel Johnson Go into the street, and give one man a lecture on morality, and another a shilling, and see which will respect you most.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Denis Waitley Goals provide the energy source that powers our lives. One of the best ways we can get the most from the energy we have is to focus it. That is what goals can do for us; concentrate our energy.
    Denis Waitley
    American motivational speaker, writer and consultant (1933 - )
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  • Brendan Behan God forgive us—but most of us grew up to be the sort of men our mothers warned us against.
    Brendan Behan
    Irish poet, short story writer, novelist and playwright (1923 - 1964)
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  • Joseph Stowell God has marvelous ways of taking our worst tragedies and turning them into His most glorious triumphs.
    Joseph Stowell
    American Christian author
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  • Brian De Palma Godard is incredibly brilliant, the things he says. Apparently here in France, the most interesting thing when a new film of his is going to come out are his press conferences, because he's so brilliant.
    Brian De Palma
    American film director and screenwriter (1940 - )
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  • Ezra Pound Good art however ''immoral'' is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise.
    Ezra Pound
    American poet (1885 - 1972)
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  • A. E. Housman Good religious poetry... is likely to be most justly appreciated and most discriminately relished by the undevout.
    A. E. Housman
    British poet (1859 - 1936)
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  • Virginia Graham Good shot, bad luck and hell are the five basic words to be used in a game of tennis, though these, of course, can be slightly amplified.
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  • Henry Louis Mencken Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man. There has never been a really good one, and even those that are most tolerable are arbitrary, cruel, grasping and unintelligent.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Henry David Thoreau Government is at best but an expedient; but most governments are usually, and all governments are sometimes, inexpedient. The objections which have been brought against a standing army, and they are many and weighty, and deserve to prevail, may also at last be brought against a standing government.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Bernard Berenson Government is the art of the momentary feasible, of the least bad attainable, and not of the rationally most desirable.
    Bernard Berenson
    American art historian (1865 - 1959)
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  • Beth Ditto Granny Ditto always referred to perfume as 'smell good' and for me it's an essential. I have a sweetheart who's extremely allergic to most scents, so I have to be extra careful - as well as creative - in the smell department. The key, I've found, are essential oils, which come in all kinds of 100% natural scents.
    Beth Ditto
    American singer-songwriter and actress (1981 - )
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  • Dorothy Parker Gratitude - the meanest and most sniveling attribute in the world.
    Dorothy Parker
    American humoristic writer (1893 - 1967)
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  • Jacques Maritain Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.
    Jacques Maritain
    French Catholic philosopher (1882 - 1973)
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  • Aldous Huxley Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Carl Gustav Jung Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off.
    Source: Psychological reflections: an anthology of the writings of C. G. Jung (1961)
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Nicholas Boileau Greatest fools are the most often satisfied.
    Nicholas Boileau
    French poet and critic (1636 - 1711)
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  • Bobby Orr Growing up in Canada, most kids from Canada dream of playing in the NHL, and they also hope one day to be on a Stanley Cup team. That was a big goal.
    Bobby Orr
    Canadian ice hockey player (1948 - )
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  • Calvin Harris Growing up in Dumfries, I got no sun - I spent all my time in my room making records. When I came to America, it made me recognise the benefits of sunlight. Oh, and I also got a good haircut. I used to have a terrible haircut.
    Calvin Harris
    Scottish DJ, record producer, singer, and songwriter (1984 - )
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