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  • Voltaire All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • Bruce Lee As an instructor, you must be able to distinguish between poor performance caused by lack of ability or aptitude on the part of the student and poor performance caused by lack of effort. You should treat the first with patience and the latter with firmness. You must never apply sarcasm and ridicule.
    Jeet Kune Do (1997) Part 5 On training in Jeet Kune Do
    Bruce Lee
    Chinese-American Actor, Director, Author, Martial Artist (1940 - 1973)
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  • James Baldwin Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Confucius Chose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.
    Confucius
    Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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  • Georges Bernanos Civilization exists precisely so that there may be no masses but rather men alert enough never to constitute masses.
    Georges Bernanos
    French writer (1888 - 1948)
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  • Henry David Thoreau For what are the classics but the noblest thoughts of man? They are the only oracles which are not decayed, and there are such answers to the most modern inquiry in them as Delphi and Dodona never gave. We might as well omit to study Nature because she is old.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Napoleon Hill Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.
    Napoleon Hill
    American self-help author (1883 - 1970)
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  • Ashleigh Brilliant History may never have all the facts, but history always has the last word.
    Ashleigh Brilliant
    American author and cartoonist (1933 - )
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  • George Washington I do not mean to exclude altogether the idea of patriotism. I know it exists, and I know it has done much in the present contest. But I will venture to assert, that a great and lasting war can never be supported on this principle alone. It must be aided b
    George Washington
    First president of the US (1732 - 1799)
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  • Groucho Marx I never forget a face, but in your case I'll make an exception.
    Groucho Marx
    American comic actor (1890 - 1977)
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  • Sherlock Holmes I never remember feeling tired by work, though idleness exhausts me completely.
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  • Doug Horton If you love something let it go free. If it doesn't come back, you never had it. If it comes back, love it forever.
    Doug Horton
    American Protestant clergyman
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson It is hard to go beyond your public. If they are satisfied with cheap performance, you will not easily arrive at better. If they know what is good, and require it. you will aspire and burn until you achieve it. But from time to time, in history, men are born a whole age too soon.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Juvenal Nature never says one thing and wisdom another.
    Juvenal
    Roman poet
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  • Harriet Beecher Stowe Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
    Harriet Beecher Stowe
    American Novelist (1811 - 1896)
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  • Henry David Thoreau The mass never comes up to the standard of its best member, but on the contrary degrades itself to a level with the lowest.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Samuel Huntington The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.
    The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order (1996) p. 51
    Samuel Huntington
    American political scientist (1927 - 2008)
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  • Bill Watterson There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want.
    Bill Watterson
    American cartoonist (1958 - )
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  • John Abbott ''How do you know so much about everything?'' was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was ''By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant.
    John Abbott
    Canadian lawyer and politician (1821 - 1893)
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  • Caroline Shaw 'Partita' is a simple piece. Born of a love of surface and structure, of the human voice, of dancing and tired ligaments, of music, and of our basic desire to draw a line from one point to another.
    Caroline Shaw
    American violinist, singer and composer (1982 - )
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