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  • Benjamin Franklin He that displays too often his wife and his wallet is in danger of having both of them borrowed.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • A. J. P. Taylor He was what I often think is a dangerous thing for a statesman to be - a student of history; and like most of those who study history, he learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.
    A. J. P. Taylor
    British historian (1906 - 1990)
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  • Elbert Hubbard He who has achieved success has worked well, laughed often and loved much.
    Elbert Hubbard
    American writer and publisher (1856 - 1915)
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  • Theodor Reik He [Freud] often said three things were impossible to fulfill completely; healing, education, governing. He limited his goals in analytic treatment to brining the patient to the point where he could work for a living and learn to love.
    Theodor Reik
    Austrian-American psychoanalyst (1888 - 1969)
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  • William Wordsworth Hearing often-times the still, sad music of humanity, nor harsh nor grating, though of ample power to chasten and subdue.
    William Wordsworth
    English poet (1770 - 1850)
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  • Barry Ritholtz Hedge funds are not especially liquid. Many are 'gated' - meaning there are only small windows when you can withdraw your money. They typically have a high minimum investment and often require investors keep their money in the fund for at least one year.
    Barry Ritholtz
    American author and newspaper columnist
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  • Lois McMaster Bujold His mother had often said, When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action. She had emphasized the corollary of this axiom even more vehemently: when you desired a consequence you had damned well better take the action that would create it.
    Lois McMaster Bujold
    American speculative fiction writer
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  • Samuel Johnson His scorn of the great is repeated too often to be real; no man thinks much of that which he despises.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • A. J. P. Taylor History gets thicker as it approaches recent times: more people, more events, and more books written about them. More evidence is preserved, often, one is tempted to say, too much. Decay and destruction have hardly begun their beneficent work.
    A. J. P. Taylor
    British historian (1906 - 1990)
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  • Mahatma Gandhi Honest differences are often a healthy sign of progress.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • Mahatma Gandhi Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • George Robert Gissing Honest winter, snow clad and with the frosted beard, I can welcome not uncordially; but that long deferment of the calendar's promise, that weeping loom of March and April, that bitter blast outraging the honor of May - how often has it robbed me of heart and hope.
    George Robert Gissing
    English writer (1857 - 1903)
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  • Hanif Kureishi How disturbing it is that our illusions are often our most important beliefs.
    Intimacy (2010) 83
    Hanif Kureishi
    British playwright, filmmaker and novelist (1954 - )
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  • Anne Brontë How odd it is that we so often weep for each other's distresses, when we shed not a tear for our own!
    Anne Brontë
    British writer (1820 - 1849)
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  • Alexander Pope How often are we to die before we go quite off this stage? In every friend we lose a part of ourselves, and the best part.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Sir Arthur Conan Doyle How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?
    Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
    British author (1859 - 1930)
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  • Richard Buckminster Fuller How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.
    Richard Buckminster Fuller
    American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, and inventor (1895 - 1983)
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  • Herbert Spencer How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.
    Herbert Spencer
    British Philosopher (1820 - 1903)
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  • Terence How often things occur by mere chance which we dared not even hope for.
    Terence
    Roman writer of comedies (190 - 159)
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  • Bjarne Stroustrup How to test? is a question that cannot be answered in general. When to test? however, does have a general answer: as early and as often as possible.
    The C++ Programming Language. p. 712
    Bjarne Stroustrup
    Danish computer scientist (1950 - )
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