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  • M. Scott Peck Problems do not go away. They must be worked through or else they remain, forever a barrier to the growth and development of the spirit.
    M. Scott Peck
    American psychiatrist and author (1936 - 2005)
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  • Benjamin Franklin Proclaim not all thou knowest, all thou knowest, all thou hast, nor all thou cans't.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Ben Hecht Producers are men who will keep their heads in the noisy presence of writers and directors and not be carried away by art in any of its subversive guises. Their task is to guard against the unusual. They are the trusted loyalists of cliche.
    Ben Hecht
    American writer, playwright (1894 - 1964)
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  • Bryant H. McGill Progress and healing involves seeing every person as not so different from ourselves.
    Bryant H. McGill
    American journalist and author (1969 - )
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  • Abraham Pais Progress leads to confusion leads to progress and on and on without respite. Every one of the many major advances - created sooner or later, more often sooner, new problems. These confusions, never twice the same, are not to be deplored. Rather, those who participate experience them as a privilege.
    Inward Bound: Of Matter and Forces in the Physical World (1988)
    Abraham Pais
    Dutch-American physicist (1918 - 2000)
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  • Walter Bagehot Progress would not have been the rarity it is if the early food had not been the late poison.
    Walter Bagehot
    English economist (1826 - 1877)
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  • Angela Davis Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation.
    Angela Davis
    American political activist, philosopher, academic, and author (1944 - )
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  • Abraham Lincoln Prohibition goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetite by legislation and makes crimes out of things that are not crimes.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • George Orwell Prolonged, indiscriminate reviewing of books is a quite exceptionally thankless, irritating and exhausting job. It not only involves praising trash but constantly inventing reactions towards books about which one has no spontaneous feeling whatever.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Barbara Kruger Prominence is cool, but when the delusion kicks in it can be a drag. Especially if you choose to surround yourself with friends and not acolytes.
    Barbara Kruger
    American artist (1945 - )
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  • Anthony J. D'Angelo Promise yourself to live your life as a revolution and not just a process of evolution.
    Anthony J. D'Angelo
    American writer
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  • Charles Simmons Promptitude is not only a duty, but is also a part of good manners; it is favorable to fortune, reputation, influence, and usefulness; a little attention and energy will form the habit, so as to make it easy and delightful.
    Charles Simmons
    American editor and novelist (1798 - 1856)
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  • Eric Hoffer Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Martin Luther King Property is intended to serve life, and no matter how much we surround it with rights and respect, it has no personal being. It is part of the earth man walks on. It is not man.
    Martin Luther King
    American preacher (1929 - 1968)
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  • Ernest Hemingway Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • Eric Butterworth Prosperity is not just having things. It is the consciousness that attracts the things. Prosperity is a way of living and thinking, and not just having money or things. Poverty is a way of living and thinking, and not just a lack of money or things.
    Eric Butterworth
    American minister, author, and radio personality
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  • Francis Bacon Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Calvin Coolidge Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.
    Calvin Coolidge
    American president (1872 - 1933)
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  • Bernard of Clairvaux Prostrate, see Thy cross I grasp,
    And Thy pierced feet I clasp;
    Gracious Jesus, spurn me not;
    On me, with compassion fraught,
    Let Thy glances fall.
    Thy cross of agony,
    My Beloved, look on me;
    Turn me wholly unto Thee;
    Be thou whole, say openly:
    I forgive thee all.
    Bernard of Clairvaux
    Burgundian abbot (1090 - 1153)
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  • Benjamin Disraeli Protection is not a principle but an expedient.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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