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  • Bill Bryson More than 300 million people in the world speak English and the rest, it sometimes seems, try to.
    Bill Bryson
    American-British author (1951 - )
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  • Benjamin Millepied Most dancers have no awareness of how they look; half of them think they're fat. There is anorexia in the ballet world; there are those things.
    Benjamin Millepied
    French dancer and choreographer (1977 - )
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  • Barbara Corcoran Most great entrepreneurs I know are nothing like the other kids. They're almost like tangent lines - those lines that seem to go nowhere. Nothing connects them, until they get out in the real world. Then they connect just fine.
    Barbara Corcoran
    American businesswoman, investor, speaker and consultant (1949 - )
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  • Barry Humphries Most of my contemporaries at school entered the World of Business, the logical destiny of bores.
    Barry Humphries
    Australian comedian, actor, artist, and author (1934 - 2023)
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  • Robert South Most of the appearance of mirth in the world is not mirth, it is art. The wounded spirit is not seen, but walks under a disguise.
    Robert South
    English churchman (1634 - 1716)
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  • Dale Carnegie Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no help at all.
    Dale Carnegie
    American writer and lecturer (1888 - 1955)
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  • Alan Moore Most of the people who get sent to die in wars are young men who've got a lot of energy and would probably rather, in a better world, be putting that energy into copulation rather than going over there and blowing some other young man's guts out.
    Alan Moore
    English writer (1953 - )
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  • Louis D. Brandeis Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done.
    Louis D. Brandeis
    American lawyer and associate justice on the Supreme Court (1856 - 1941)
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  • T. S. Eliot Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important.
    T. S. Eliot
    British essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic (1888 - 1965)
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  • William S. Burroughs Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can't mind their own business, because they have no business of their own to mind, any more than a smallpox virus has.
    William S. Burroughs
    American writer and artist (1914 - 1997)
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  • Peace Pilgrim Most of us fall short much more by omission than by commission. While the world perishes we go our way: purposeless, passionless, day after day.
    Peace Pilgrim
    American activist, mystic and pacifist
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  • Brendan Fraser Most people go, I wish for world peace. But chaos has a place in balancing out the light and the dark in the world. I don't know if I would wish for world peace.
    Brendan Fraser
    American and Canadian actor (1969 - )
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  • Vauvenargues Most people grow old within a small circle of ideas, which they have not discovered for themselves. There are perhaps less wrong-minded people than thoughtless.
    Vauvenargues
    French philosopher (1715 - 1747)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken Most people want security in this world, not liberty.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Blake Mycoskie Most people yearn to contribute, make the world a better place and have success.... all at the same time... Make sure to give your business a background, a mission and a story. That might be the most important step part of any venture. And remember, giving may be the best investment you ever make.
    Blake Mycoskie
    American entrepreneur, author, and philanthropist (1976 - )
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  • Cass Sunstein Most problems are best solved privately, not through government. There's a problem of discourtesy in the world, which is best handled through social norms, which are indispensable. But you wouldn't want the government to be mandating courtesy.
    Cass Sunstein
    American legal scholar (1954 - )
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  • Anna Held Most women are indulgent of themselves. This is a mistake. It should be only the reward of old age.
    Anna Held
    Polish-born stage performer and singer (1872 - 1918)
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  • Brett Ratner Movies are the biggest export in the world, the biggest American export. It influences people all over the world.
    Brett Ratner
    American director and producer (1969 - )
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  • Campbell Brown Mr. Obama is particularly well positioned to challenge Hollywood because of his special relationship with the media world's elites. They might be more likely to heed criticism coming from Mr. Obama than from any other president or member of Congress.
    Campbell Brown
    American journalist (1968 - )
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  • Alcee Hastings Mr. Speaker, I am deeply concerned that many regions of this world are suffering from the effects of armed conflicts with religious aspects. I believe that the differences of faith are not the real reason for these conflicts.
    Alcee Hastings
    American politician (1936 - )
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