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  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau Endurance and to be able to endure is the first lesson a child should learn because it's the one they will most need to know.
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    French writer and philosopher (1712 - 1778)
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne Even on the most exalted throne in the world we are only sitting on our own bottom.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Christian Nevell Bovee Every trait of beauty may be referred to some virtue, as to innocence, candor, generosity, modesty, or heroism. St. Pierre To cultivate the sense of the beautiful, is one of the most effectual ways of cultivating an appreciation of the divine goodness.
    Christian Nevell Bovee
    American writer
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  • Edward Dahlberg Everything ultimately fails, for we die, and that is either the penultimate failure or our most enigmatical achievement.
    Edward Dahlberg
    American novelist, essayist and autobiographer (1900 - 1977)
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  • Adam Clarke Few men can be said to have inimitable excellencies: let us watch them in their progress from infancy to manhood, and we shall soon be convinced that what they attained was the necessary consequence of the line they pursued, and the means they used.
    Adam Clarke
    British Methodist theologian (1760 - 1832)
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  • Ezra Pound Gloom and solemnity are entirely out of place in even the most rigorous study of an art originally intended to make glad the heart of man.
    Ezra Pound
    American poet (1885 - 1972)
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  • Alfred Adler God who is eternally complete, who directs the stars, who is the master of fates, who elevates man from his lowliness to Himself, who speaks from the cosmos to every single human soul, is the most brilliant manifestation of the goal of perfection.
    Alfred Adler
    Austrian psychiatrist (1870 - 1937)
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  • John Harrigan Happiness held is the seed; Happiness shared is the flower-Author Unknown People need your love the most when they appear to deserve it the least.
    John Harrigan
     
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  • Henry David Thoreau He who is only a traveler learns things at second-hand and by the halves, and is poor authority. We are most interested when science reports what those men already know practically or instinctively, for that alone is a true humanity, or account of human experience.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Kate Millet However muted its present appearance may be, sexual dominion obtains nevertheless as perhaps the most pervasive ideology of our culture and provides its most fundamental concept of power.
    Kate Millet
    American writer (1934 - 2017)
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  • Gene Fowler I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes.
    Gene Fowler
    American journalist, author and dramatist (1890 - 1960)
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  • Henry David Thoreau I am sorry to think that you do not get a man's most effective criticism until you provoke him. Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Harriet Beecher Stowe I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred - that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt. If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.
    Harriet Beecher Stowe
    American Novelist (1811 - 1896)
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  • William Shakespeare I have had a most rare vision. I have had a dream past the wit of man to say what dream it was. Man is but an ass if he go about to expound this dream.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Katherine Mansfield I must say I hate money but it's the lack of it I hate most.
    Katherine Mansfield
    New Zealand-born British Author (1888 - 1923)
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  • Bill Gates I think it's fair to say that personal computers have become the most empowering tool we've ever created. They're tools of communication, they're tools of creativity, and they can be shaped by their user.
    Source: Speech at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, February 24, 2004
    Bill Gates
    American business magnate, investor, author and philanthropist (1955 - )
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  • Anna Held I think the eyes flirt most. There are so many ways to use them.
    Anna Held
    Polish-born stage performer and singer (1872 - 1918)
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  • William Shakespeare If it be a sin to covet honor I am the most offending soul alive.
    Source: Henry V
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Luis Bunuel In the name of Hypocrites, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival.
    Luis Bunuel
    Spanish director (1900 - 1983)
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  • James Weldon Johnson It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives it most distinctive characteristics.
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