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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero True glory takes root, and even spreads; all false pretences, like flowers, fall to the ground; nor can any counterfeit last long.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Bayard Taylor True, when you behold Damascus from the Salahiyeh, the last slope of the Anti-Lebanon, it is the realization of all that you have dreamed of Oriental splendor; the world has no picture more dazzling. It is Beauty carried to the Sublime, as I have felt when overlooking some boundless forest of palms within the tropics.
    Bayard Taylor
    American poet, travel author, and diplomat (1825 - 1878)
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  • Konrad Lorenz Truth in science can be defined as the working hypothesis best suited to open the way to the next better one.
    Konrad Lorenz
    German so lied (1903 - 1989)
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  • Konrad Lorenz Truth in science can best be defined as the working hypothesis best suited to open the way to the next better one.
    Konrad Lorenz
    German so lied (1903 - 1989)
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  • Andrew Lloyd Webber Two years ago I hadn't even thought of the Woman in White, and I was doing a television show and I said I hadn't found a story and the next day somebody rang me and said have you ever thought of the Woman in White.
    Andrew Lloyd Webber
    English composer and impresario (1948 - )
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Upon the creatures we have made, we are, ourselves, at last, dependent.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Anthony Wayne Upon the whole it was a Glorious day-Our men are in the Spirits-and I am confident we shall give them a total defeat the next Action; which is at no great distance.
    Anthony Wayne
    American politican and statesman (1745 - 1796)
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  • Anita Desai Usually a feeling of disappointment follows the book, because what I hoped to write is not what I actually accomplished. However, it becomes a motivation to write the next book.
    Anita Desai
    Indian novelist (1937 - )
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  • Carl Sandburg Valor is a gift. Those having it never know for sure whether they have it till the test comes. And those having it in one test never know for sure if they will have it when the next test comes.
    Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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  • Stanislaw Jerzy Lec Value your words. Each one may be the last.
    Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
    Polish writer (1909 - 1966)
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  • Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
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  • Isaac Asimov Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
    Isaac Asimov
    American writer (1920 - 1992)
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  • Bernard Ebbers We accelerated our capital spending in the fourth quarter, particularly in international and next-generation network deployment, which should not only sustain future revenue growth but also drive significant cost reductions across all communications services.
    Bernard Ebbers
    Canadian businessman (1941 - 2020)
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  • James Thurber We all know that the theater and every play that comes to Broadway have within themselves, like the human being, the seed of self-destruction and the certainty of death. The thing is to see how long the theater, the play, and the human being can last in spite of themselves.
    James Thurber
    American cartoonist (1894 - 1961)
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  • Beth Ditto We all seek approval, and our mother's seal is usually the most important. The nitty gritty is that we have to accept ourselves, even if it is just to be ready for the next cut-down. Mom's blessing or not.
    Beth Ditto
    American singer-songwriter and actress (1981 - )
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  • Bill Gates We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten. Don't let yourself be lulled into inaction.
    Bill Gates
    American business magnate, investor, author and philanthropist (1955 - )
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  • Albert Camus We are not certain, we are never certain. If we were we could reach some conclusions, and we could, at last, make others take us seriously.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Adrian Smith We are one of the last heavy metal bands. Iron Maiden has always been unique.
    Adrian Smith
    English guitarist and pianist (1957 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a belly-full of words and do not know a thing. The things taught in schools and colleges are not an education, but the means of education.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Bil Keane We are, in the comics, the last frontier of good, wholesome family humor and entertainment.
    Bil Keane
    American cartoonist (1922 - 2011)
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