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  • Mark Twain Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run. Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Zoltan Kodaly Teach music and singing at school in such a way that it is not a torture but a joy for the pupil; instill a thirst for finer music in him, a thirst which will last for a lifetime.
    Zoltan Kodaly
    Hungarian composer (1882 - 1967)
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  • Samuel Huntington The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.
    The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order (1996) p. 51
    Samuel Huntington
    American political scientist (1927 - 2008)
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  • Billy Porter There's this misconception that I've been turning down roles. It's just not true. The reality is, there was nothing for me to do, nobody was calling, the phone wasn't ringing.
    Billy Porter
    American actor and singer (1969 - )
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  • Henry David Thoreau This American government - what is it but a tradition, though a recent one, endeavoring to transmit itself unimpaired to posterity, but each instant losing some of its integrity? It has not the vitality and force of a single living man; for a single man can bend it to his will.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Carl Sandburg Time is the most valuable coin in your life. You and you alone will determine how that coin will be spent. Be careful that you do not let other people spend it for you.
    Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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  • Barbra Streisand Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?
    Barbra Streisand
    American singer, songwriter, actress, and filmmaker (1942 - )
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  • Cato the Elder Wise men profit more from fools than fools from wise men; for the wise men shun the mistakes of fools, but fools do not imitate the successes of the wise.
    Cato the Elder
    Roman senator and historian (234 - 149)
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  • Napoleon With audacity one can undertake anything, but not do everything.
    Napoleon
    French Emperor (1769 - 1821)
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  • Charlie McCarthy Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy.
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  • Leonardo Da Vinci Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory.
    Leonardo Da Vinci
    Italian painter, engineer and musician (1452 - 1519)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche "Reason" is the cause of our falsification of the evidence of the senses. In so far as the senses show becoming, passing away, change, they do not lie.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Bono 20 years on I'm not that interested in charity. I'm interested in justice. There's a difference. Africa needs justice as much as it needs charity.
    Equality for Africa is a big idea. It's a big expensive idea.
    PENN Address (2004)
    Bono
    Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
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  • Helen Rowland A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting.
    Helen Rowland
    American journalist (1875 - 1950)
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  • Alice Meynell A child is beset with long traditions. And his infancy is so old, so old, that the mere adding of years in the life to follow will not seem to throw it further back - it is already so far.
    Alice Meynell
    British poet, writer (1847 - 1922)
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  • Bret Easton Ellis A child should never even think about being a "good son." A parent decides that fate for the child. The parent encourages that. Not the child himself. And the perfect dad? I shudder at thinking what that may be.
    Bret Easton Ellis
    American author, screenwriter, short-story writer, and director (1964 - )
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  • Aristide Briand A country grows in history not only because of the heroism of its troops on the field of battle, it grows also when it turns to justice and to right for the conservation of its interests.
    Aristide Briand
    French statesman (1862 - 1932)
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  • Chief Seattle A few more moons, a few more winters, and not one of all the mighty hosts that once filled this broad land or that now roam in fragmentary bands through these vast solitudes will remain to weep over the tombs of a people once as powerful and as hopeful as your own. But why should we repine? Why should I murmur at the fate of my people? Tribes are made up of individuals and are no better than they. Men come and go like the waves of the sea. A tear, a tamanamus, a dirge, and they are gone from our
    Speech 1854
    Chief Seattle
    Chief of the Suquamish and Duwanish Indians (1780 - 1866)
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  • Friedrich von Schiller A gloomy guest fits not a wedding feast.
    Friedrich von Schiller
    German poet and playwright (1759 - 1805)
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  • Bruce Lee A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.
    Bruce Lee
    Chinese-American Actor, Director, Author, Martial Artist (1940 - 1973)
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