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  • Elizabeth Gaskell He had not an ounce of superfluous flesh on his bones, and leanness goes a great way towards gentility.
    Elizabeth Gaskell
    British writer (1810 - 1865)
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  • Euripides He is not a lover who does not love forever.
    Euripides
    Greek tragedian and poet (480 - 406)
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  • Camille Paglia Men are run ragged by female sexuality all their lives. From the beginning of his life to the end, no man ever fully commands any woman. It's an illusion. Men are pussy-whipped. And they know it. That's what the strip clubs are about; not woman as victim, not woman as slave, but woman as goddess.
    As quoted in Sexuality and Gender (2002)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • George Bernard Shaw A miracle is an event which creates faith. That is the purpose and nature of miracles. Frauds deceive. An event which creates faith does not deceive: therefore it is not a fraud, but a miracle.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Anais Nin Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
    Anais Nin
    French-born American Novelist, Dancer (1903 - 1977)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson All that I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Franklin D. Roosevelt But while they prate of economic laws, men and women are starving. We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.
    Franklin D. Roosevelt
    American statesman (1882 - 1945)
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  • Euripides Cleverness is not wisdom.
    Euripides
    Greek tragedian and poet (480 - 406)
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  • Albert Einstein God does not play dice with the universe.
    Original: Gott würfelt nicht.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • William Shakespeare If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us shall we not revenge?
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Martin Luther King In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
    Martin Luther King
    American preacher (1929 - 1968)
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  • Mahatma Gandhi It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • Joseph Addison Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • John Holt No use to shout at them to pay attention. If the situations, the materials, the problems before the child do not interest him, his attention will slip off to what does interest him, and no amount of exhortation of threats will bring it back.
    John Holt
    American author and educator (1923 - 1985)
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  • Marlene Dietrich Once a woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast.
    Marlene Dietrich
    German-born American Film Actor (1901 - 1992)
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  • Joseph Addison One should take good care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life as laughter.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Thomas Henry Huxley The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
    Thomas Henry Huxley
    English biologist (1825 - 1895)
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  • Hannah Arendt The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide. In this sense, truth, even if it does not prevail in public, possesses an ineradicable primacy over all falsehoods.
    Hannah Arendt
    German-born American political theorist (1906 - 1975)
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  • Michel Eyquem de Montaigne Ambition is not a vice of little people.
    Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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