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  • William Shakespeare To be honest, as this world goes, is to be. One man picked out of ten thousand.
    Hamlet 2,2
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Butch Trucks To be honest, I don't listen to much music! I've been so engrossed in it my whole life that when I drive around in my car, I'll listen to college lectures on philosophy and literature and world history, things like that, to kind of catch up on the college experience I missed.
    Butch Trucks
    American musician (1947 - 2017)
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  • Bill Budge To be honest, I look at my Pinball program and feel that it is old stuff. I could do much better.
    Bill Budge
    American video game programmer and designer (1954 - )
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Henry Drummond To become Christ-like is the only thing in the whole world worth caring for, the thing before which every ambition of man is folly and all lower achievement vain.
    Henry Drummond
    Scottish evangelist, biologist, writer and lecturer (1786 - 1860)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero To disregard what the world thinks of us is not only arrogant but utterly shameless.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Oscar Wilde To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the most intellectual.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • John D. Mcdonald To enjoy enduring success we should travel a little in advance of the world.
    John D. Mcdonald
    American writer of novels and short stories (1916 - 1986)
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld To establish yourself in the world a person must do all they can to appear already established.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Alfred Russel Wallace To expect the world to receive a new truth, or even an old truth, without challenging it, is to look for one of those miracles which do not occur.
    Alfred Russel Wallace
    British naturalist, explorer, anthropologist and biologist (1823 - )
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  • William Congreve To find a young fellow that is neither a wit in his own eye, nor a fool in the eye of the world, is a very hard task.
    William Congreve
    British Dramatist (1670 - 1729)
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  • Boman Irani To find one's calling is perhaps not the easiest thing in the world, but probably the most important.
    Boman Irani
    Indian actor (1959 - )
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  • Barbara W. Tuchman To gain victory over the flesh was the purpose of fasting and celibacy, which denied the pleasures of this world for the sake of reward in the next.
    Barbara W. Tuchman
    American historian (1912 - 1989)
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  • Abraham Kaplan To get at the meaning of a statement the logical positivist asks, What would the world be like if it were true? The operationist asks, What would we have to do to come to believe it? For the pragmatist the question is, What would we do if did believe it?
    The Conduct of Inquiry
    Abraham Kaplan
    American philosopher
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  • Oscar Wilde To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Eric Hoffer To grow old is to grow common. Old age equalizes, we are aware that what is happening to us has happened to untold numbers from the beginning of time. When we are young we act as if we were the first young people in the world.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Berthold Auerbach To harbor hatred and animosity in the soul makes one irritable, gloomy, and prematurely old.
    Berthold Auerbach
    German-Jewish writer and poet (1812 - 1882)
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  • Bonnie Hunt To have children on the set, you realize that if a 10-year-old can do it, who are you kidding? It humbles you.
    Bonnie Hunt
    American actress, comedian, director and producer (1961 - )
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