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  • Campbell Brown Charter opponents often try to delegitimize strong testing results like those in Boston by attributing them to excessive test prep - as New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio did recently.
    Campbell Brown
    American journalist (1968 - )
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  • François Fénelon Children are excellent observers, and will often perceive your slightest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves.
    François Fénelon
    French writer and archbishop (1651 - 1715)
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  • Barry Ritholtz Commissions add up, taxes are a big drag, margin ain't cheap. A good accountant costs money as well. The math on this one is obvious, yet investors often fail to recognize it: Keep your costs low and your turnover lower, and you will win in the end.
    Barry Ritholtz
    American author and newspaper columnist
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  • Betty Williams Compassion is more important than intellect in calling forth the love that the work of peace needs, and intuition can often be a far more powerful searchlight than cold reason.
    Betty Williams
    Irish activist (1943 - 2020)
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  • James Russell Lowell Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof; it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise ;in statesmanship.
    James Russell Lowell
    American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat (1819 - 1891)
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  • Billy Graham Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.
    A Time for Moral Courage, Readers Digest (July 1964)
    Billy Graham
    American Evangelist (1918 - 2018)
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  • Queen Elizabeth II Cowards falter, but danger is often overcome by those who nobly dare.
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  • Bernice Fitz-Gibbon Creativeness often consists of merely turning up what is already there. Did you know that right and left shoes were thought up only a little more than a century ago?
    Bernice Fitz-Gibbon
    American advertising executive
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  • Bernice Fitz-Gibbon Creativity often consists of merely turning up what is already there. Did you know that right and left shoes were thought up only a little more than a century ago?
    Bernice Fitz-Gibbon
    American advertising executive
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  • Jean de la Bruyère Criticism is often not a science; it is a craft, requiring more good health than wit, more hard work than talent, more habit than native genius. In the hands of a man who has read widely but lacks judgment, applied to certain subjects it can corrupt both its readers and the writer himself.
    Jean de la Bruyère
    French writer (1645 - 1696)
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  • Dale Carnegie Criticism of others is futile and if you indulge in it often you should be warned that it can be fatal to your career.
    Dale Carnegie
    American writer and lecturer (1888 - 1955)
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  • Brin-Jonathan Butler Cuban eyes often look close to tears. Tears never seem far away because both their pain and their joy are always so close to the surface.
    Brin-Jonathan Butler
    American journalist and filmmaker
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  • Friedrich von Schiller Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays.
    Friedrich von Schiller
    German poet and playwright (1759 - 1805)
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  • Carter Burwell Death is always around the corner, but often our society gives it inordinate help.
    Carter Burwell
    American composer of film scores (1954 - )
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  • Stevie Smith Death must be distinguished from dying, with which it is often confused.
    Stevie Smith
    English poet and novelist (1902 - 1971)
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  • Jose Manuel Barroso Decisions taken by the most democratic institutions in the world are very often wrong.
    Democracy could have saved Europe from the single currency (2015)
    Jose Manuel Barroso
    Portuguese politician (1956 - )
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  • Alan Bennett Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have.
    Alan Bennett
    British playwright, screenwriter, actor and author (1934 - )
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  • Miguel de Cervantes Delay always breeds danger; and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.
    Miguel de Cervantes
    Spanish writer and poet (1547 - 1616)
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  • William B. Given Details often kill initiative, but there have been few successful men who weren't good at details. Don't ignore details. Lick them.
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  • Virginia Woolf Different though the sexes are, they inter-mix. In every human being a vacillation from one sex to the other takes place, and often it is only the clothes that keep the male or female likeness, while underneath the sex is very opposite of what it is above.
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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