Quotes with oldies-but-goodies

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  • Albert Einstein Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Peter F. Drucker Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes; but no plans.
    Peter F. Drucker
    American management consultant and writer (1909 - 2005)
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  • B. R. Ambedkar Unlike a drop of water which loses its identity when it joins the ocean, man does not lose his being in the society in which he lives. Man's life is independent. He is born not for the development of the society alone, but for the development of his self.
    B. R. Ambedkar
    Indian jurist, economist and politician (1891 - 1956)
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  • F. Scott Fitzgerald Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    American writer (1896 - 1940)
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  • Bill Watterson We all have different desires and needs, but if we don't discover what we want from ourselves and what we stand for, we will live passively and unfulfilled.
    Bill Watterson
    American cartoonist (1958 - )
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  • Konrad Adenauer We all live under the same sky, but we don't all have the same horizon.
    Konrad Adenauer
    German politician (1876 - 1967)
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  • Henry David Thoreau We are eager to tunnel under the Atlantic and bring the Old World some weeks nearer to the New; but perchance the first news that will leak through into the broad, flapping American ear will be that the Princess Adelaide has the whooping cough.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Evelyn Waugh We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for our ability to amuse them.
    Evelyn Waugh
    British novelist (1903 - 1966)
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  • Ezra Pound We do NOT know the past in chronological sequence. It may be convenient to lay it out anesthetized on the table with dates pasted on here and there, but what we know we know by ripples and spirals eddying out from us and from our own time.
    Ezra Pound
    American poet (1885 - 1972)
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  • Booker T. Washington We do not want the men of another color for our brothers-in-law, but we do want them for our brothers.
    Booker T. Washington
    American Black Leader and Educator (1856 - 1915)
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Maya Angelou We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.
    Maya Angelou
    African-American poet and writer (1928 - 2014)
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  • Sir John Lubbock We often hear of people breaking down from overwork, but in nine out of ten they are really suffering from worry or anxiety.
    Sir John Lubbock
    British statesman and banker (1834 - 1913)
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  • Charles Caleb Colton We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Henry David Thoreau We worship not the Graces, nor the Parcae, but Fashion. She spins and weaves and cuts with full authority. The head monkey at Paris puts on a traveler's cap, and all the monkeys in America do the same.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Benedict Cumberbatch We're living through a time where we are fighting wars fostered by politics, admittedly not on the same scale as the First World War, but with equally tragic realities for our soldiers and their families.
    Benedict Cumberbatch
    English actor (1976 - )
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  • Harry S. Truman Well, I wouldn't say that I was in the great class, but I had a great time while I was trying to be great.
    Harry S. Truman
    American president (1884 - 1972)
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  • Elizabeth Barrett Browning What is genius but the power of expressing a new individuality?
    Elizabeth Barrett Browning
    English poet (1806 - 1861)
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  • Alexis de Tocqueville What is the most important for democracy is not that great fortunes should not exist, but that great fortunes should not remain in the same hands. In that way there are rich men, but they do not form a class.
    Alexis de Tocqueville
    French aristocrat, political philosopher and sociologist (1805 - 1859)
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  • Joseph Addison What pity is it That we can die, but once to serve our country.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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