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  • Cam Newton A person that says, 'Losing is not difficult,' I don't even want to be around that person. And obviously, that person has never won anything relevant in their life.
    Cam Newton
    American football player (1989 - )
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  • Thomas Carlyle A person usually has two reasons for doing something: a good reason and the real reason.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Ambrose Bierce A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms agains himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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  • Alexandre Dumas père A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.
    Alexandre Dumas père
    French writer (1802 - 1870)
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  • Thomas Carlyle A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Abdul Kalam A person with belief never grovels before anyone, whining and whimpering that it's all too much, that he lacks support, that he is being treated unfairly. Instead, such a person tackes problems head on and then affirms, 'As a child of God, I am greater than anything that can happen to me.
    Wings of Fire
    Abdul Kalam
    11th President of India (1931 - 2015)
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  • Thomas Carlyle A person with half volition goes backwards and forwards, but makes no progress on even the smoothest of roads.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Adelbert von Chamisso A person without a shadow should keep out of the sun, that is the only safe and rational plan.
    Adelbert von Chamisso
    German writer, liar and explorer (1781 - 1838)
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  • B. F. Skinner A person's genetic endowment, a product of the evolution of the species, is said to explain part of the workings of his mind and his personal history the rest.
    B. F. Skinner
    American psychologist, behaviorist and author (1904 - 1990)
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  • Jean de la Fontaine A pessimist and an optimist, so much the worse; so much the better.
    Jean de la Fontaine
    French writer (1621 - 1695)
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  • Graham Greene A petty reason perhaps why novelists more and more try to keep a distance from journalists is that novelists are trying to write the truth and journalists are trying to write fiction.
    Graham Greene
    English writer (1904 - 1991)
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  • Bill Brandt A photographer must be prepared to catch and hold on to those elements which give distinction to the subject or lend it atmosphere.
    Bill Brandt: selected texts and bibliography
    Bill Brandt
    British photographer and photojournalist (1904 - 1983)
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  • A. Toynbee A pioneer condems himself to be corrected and surpassed.
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  • T. S. Eliot A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time, then I know it can't be much good.
    T. S. Eliot
    British essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic (1888 - 1965)
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  • Arthur Miller A playwright lives in an occupied country. And if you can't live that way you don't stay.
    Arthur Miller
    American Dramatist (1915 - 2005)
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  • A. R. Ammons A poem generated by its own laws may be unrealized and bad in terms of so-called objective principles of taste, judgement, deduction.
    A. R. Ammons
    American poet (1926 - 2001)
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  • Anne Stevenson A poem might be defined as thinking about feelings - about human feelings and frailties.
    Anne Stevenson
    American-British poet and writer (1933 - 2020)
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  • Diane Ackerman A poem records emotions and moods that lie beyond normal language, that can only be patched together and hinted at metaphorically.
    Diane Ackerman
    American poet, essayist, savage and naturalist (1948 - )
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  • Marshall Mcluhan A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight and understanding.
    Marshall Mcluhan
    Canadian professor and philosopher (1911 - 1980)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken A politician is an animal which can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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