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  • Nelson Mandela What counts in life is not the mere fact that we have lived. It is what difference we have made to the lives of others that will determine the significance of the life we lead.
    Source: Speech 18 may 2002
    Nelson Mandela
    South African anti-apartheid revolutionary and political leader (1918 - 2013)
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  • Dwight D. Eisenhower What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight; it's the size of the fight in the dog.
    Dwight D. Eisenhower
    American president (1890 - 1969)
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  • Barbara W. Tuchman What counts is not so much the fact as what the public perceives to be the fact.
    Source: A Distant Mirror
    Barbara W. Tuchman
    American historian (1912 - 1989)
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  • Stephen King What Darwin was too polite to say, my friends, is that we came to rule the earth not because we were the smartest, or even the meanest, but because we have always been the craziest, most murderous motherfuckers in the jungle.
    Stephen King
    American author of horror and supernatural fiction (1947 - )
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  • Raymond Chandler What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? In a dirty sump or in a marble tower on top of a high hill? You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that. Oil and water were the same as wind and air to you.
    Raymond Chandler
    American writer (1888 - 1959)
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  • Toni Morrison What difference do it make if the thing you scared of is real or not?
    Toni Morrison
    American novelist, essayist, editor (1931 - 2019)
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  • Seneca What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Horace What do sad complaints avail if the offense is not cut down by punishment.
    Horace
    Roman poet
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  • George Eliot What do we live for; if it is not to make life less difficult to each other?
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Adlai Stevenson II What do we mean by patriotism in the context of our times? I venture to suggest that what we mean is a sense of national responsibility... a patriotism which is not short, frenzied outbursts of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.
    Adlai Stevenson II
    American politician and governor (1900 - 1965)
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  • David Malouf What else should our lives be but a continual series of beginnings, of painful settings out into the unknown, pushing off from the edges of consciousness into the mystery of what we have not yet become.
    Source: An Imaginary Life
    David Malouf
    Australian writer (1934 - )
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  • Boris Pasternak What for centuries raised man above the beast is not the cudgel but the irresistible power of unarmed truth.
    Boris Pasternak
    Russian writer (1890 - 1960)
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  • Robert H. Schuller What great things would you attempt if you knew you could not fail.
    Robert H. Schuller
    American Christian televangelist, pastor, motivational speaker, and au (1926 - 2015)
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  • Archibald Macleish What happened at Hiroshima was not only that a scientific breakthrough had occurred and that a great part of the population of a city had been burned to death, but that the problem of the relation of the triumphs of modern science to the human purposes of man had been explicitly defined.
    Archibald Macleish
    American poet (1892 - 1982)
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  • Thaddeus Golas What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens.
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  • Margaret Oliphant What happiness is there which is not purchased with more or less of pain?
    Margaret Oliphant
    British writer, historian (1828 - 1897)
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne What harm cause not those huge draughts or pictures which wanton youth with chalk or coals draw in each passage, wall or stairs of our great houses, whence a cruel contempt of our natural store is bred in them?
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Carl Stokes What has been happening the last four years in City Hall is that they have been closing recreation centers, closing libraries. We have not looked after our children in City Hall.
    Carl Stokes
    American politician and diplomat (1927 - 1996)
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  • William Somerset Maugham What has influenced my life more than any other single thing has been my stammer. Had I not stammered I would probably... have gone to Cambridge as my brothers did, perhaps have become a don and every now and then published a dreary book about French literature.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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  • Benjamin Cardozo What has once been settled by a precedent will not be unsettled overnight, for certainty and uniformity are gains not lightly sacrificed. Above all is this true when honest men have shaped their conduct on the faith of the pronouncement.
    Benjamin Cardozo
    American lawyer and jurist (1870 - 1938)
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