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  • W. H. Auden A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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  • Carl Hubbell A fellow doesn't last long on what he has done. He has to keep on delivering.
    Carl Hubbell
    American baseball player (1903 - )
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  • David Lloyd George A fully equipped duke costs as much to keep up as two Dreadnoughts, and dukes are just as great a terror - and they last longer.
    David Lloyd George
    Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1916 to 1922 (1863 - 1945)
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  • Branch Rickey A game of great charm in the adoption of mathematical measurements to the timing of human movements, the exactitudes and adjustments of physical ability to hazardous chance. The speed of the legs, the dexterity of the body, the grace of the swing, the elusiveness of the slide - these are the features that make Americans everywhere forget the last syllable of a man's last name or the pigmentation of his skin.
    Branch Rickey
    American baseball player (1881 - )
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  • Samuel Butler A genius can never expect to have a good time anywhere, if he is a genuine article, but America is about the last place in which life will be endurable at all for an inspired writer of any kind.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • George S. Patton A good plan violently executed right now is far better than a perfect plan executed next week.
    George S. Patton
    American Army General during World War II (1885 - 1945)
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  • Bob Gibson A great catch is like watching girls go by the last one you see is always the prettiest.
    Bob Gibson
    American baseball player (1935 - 2020)
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  • Edward Bulwer-Lytton A life of pleasure makes even the strongest mind frivolous at last.
    Edward Bulwer-Lytton
    English writer and poet (1803 - 1873)
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  • Mickey Rooney A lot of people have asked me how short I am. Since my last divorce, I think I'm about $100, 000 short.
    Mickey Rooney
    American actor, vaudevillian, comedian and producer (1920 - 2014)
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  • Boy George A lot of what I've been learning in the last two years is due to therapy - about my sexuality, why things go wrong, why relationships haven't worked. It isn't anything to do with anybody else; it's to do with me.
    Boy George
    English singer, songwriter, DJ, fashion designer and actor (1961 - )
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  • Amy Lowell A man must be sacrificed now and again to provide for the next generation of men.
    Amy Lowell
    American poet, criticus (1874 - 1925)
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  • Joseph Addison A man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart, and his next to escape the censures of the world.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • James Freeman Clarke A politician thinks of the next election. A statesman, of the next generation.
    James Freeman Clarke
    American theologian and author (1810 - 1888)
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  • Rob Cella A relationship is like a rose, How long it lasts, no one knows; Love can erase an awful past, Love can be yours, you'll see at last; To feel that love, it makes you sigh, To have it leave, you'd rather die; You hope you've found that special rose, 'Cause you love and care for the one you chose.
    Rob Cella
     
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  • Jose Ortega Y Gasset A revolution does not last more than fifteen years, the period which coincides with the flourishing of a generation.
    Jose Ortega Y Gasset
    Spanish writer and philosopher (1883 - 1955)
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  • Curtis Carlson A salesman must also have flexible goals. You may say, ''I want to sell 10 accounts this week,'' and you sell five. You're ready to die. But, you tell yourself, ''Five isn't too bad. You know, next week maybe I'll sell 10.
    Curtis Carlson
    American businessman and technologist (1945 - )
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  • Ben Horowitz A wartime C.E.O. may not delegate. They make every decision based on the next product release. They may use a lot of profanity.
    Ben Horowitz
    American businessman, investor, blogger, and author (1966 - )
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  • Lord Acton A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different times.
    Lord Acton
    British historian (1834 - 1902)
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  • Sir John Lubbock A wise system of education will at last teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still to learn.
    Sir John Lubbock
    British statesman and banker (1834 - 1913)
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  • Louise Erdrich A woman's body is the gate to this life. A man's body is the gate to the next life.
    Louise Erdrich
    American author (1954 - )
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