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• The English are not happy unless they are miserable, the Irish are not at peace unless they are at war, and the Scots are not at home unless they are abroad.

  ― George Orwell
  English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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• The English have an extraordinary ability for flying into a great calm.

  ― Alexander Woollcott
  American critic and commentator (0 - 1943)
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• The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it.

  ― George Bernard Shaw
  Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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• The English may not like music, but they absolutely love the noise it makes.

  ― Sir Thomas Beecham
  English conductor and impresario (1879 - 1961)
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• The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.

  ― Pliny the Elder
  Roman author, naturalist and natural (23 - 79)
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• The Enlightenment view of mankind is a complete myth. It leads us into thinking we're sane and rational creatures most of the time, and we're not.

  ― J. G. Ballard
  British author (1930 - 2009)
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• The entire world is my temple, and a very fine one too, if I'm not mistaken, and I'll never lack priests to serve it as long as there are men.

  ― Desiderius Erasmus
  Dutch humanist and philosopher (1469 - 1536)
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• The entrepreneurial approach is not a sideline at 3M. It is the heart of our design for growth.

  ― Lewis Lehr
   
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• The envious die not once, but as oft as the envied win applause.

  ― Baltasar Gracián
  Spanish Jesuit and philosopher (1601 - 1658)
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• The epitaphs on tombstones of a great many people should read: Died at thirty, and buried at sixty.

  ― Nicholas Butler
  American philosopher, diplomat, and educator
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• The era of 'The Jungle Book' was when the animators were at the top of their game and their sense of character was great.

  ― Byron Howard
  American film director and producer (1968 - )
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• The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.

  ― Friedrich Nietzsche
  German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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• The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.
  

  ― George Orwell
  English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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• The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it; not having it, to confess your ignorance.

  ― Confucius
  Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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• The essence of our effort to see that every child has a chance must be to assure each an equal opportunity, not to become equal, but to become different- to realize whatever unique potential of body, mind and spirit he or she possesses.

  ― John Fischer
   
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• The essence of statesmanship is not a rigid adherence to the past, but a prudent and probing concern for the future.
  

  ― Hubert Humphrey
  American politician (1911 - 1978)
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• The essence of statesmanship is not a rigid adherence to the past, but a prudent and probing concern for the future.

  ― Hubert Humphrey
  American politician (1911 - 1978)
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• The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do.

  ― Michael Porter
  American engineer and economist (1947 - )
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• The essence of the Liberal outlook lies not in what opinions are held, but in how they are held: instead of being held dogmatically, they are held tentatively, and with a consciousness that new evidence may at any moment lead to their abandonment.

  ― Bertrand Russell
  English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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• The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor.
  

  ― George Orwell
  English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• entrepreneurial
• enlightenment
• statesmanship
• consciousness
• tentatively
• abandonment

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