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  • Joseph Addison What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but, scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Burning Spear When people see a legend, they call it a legend. But to be a legend, it's a lot of hard work and patience. You can't play for five or ten years and be a legend. It takes longer than that.
    Burning Spear
    Jamaican reggae singer-songwriter, vocalist and musician (1945 - )
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  • Brit Morin Yeah, the majority of Brit+Co users are women, but DIY? You see kids DIY, adult men geeking out hardcore with anything related to woodworking and all these cool new technologies, metalwork, leatherworking, concrete making. Everyone has a passion. I truly believe it's in our DNA literally to build things.
    Brit Morin
    American entrepreneur (1985 - )
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  • Medgar Evers You can kill a man but you can't kill an idea.
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  • Kahlil Gibran You may give them your love but not your thoughts. For they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.
    Kahlil Gibran
    Libian painter and writer (1883 - 1931)
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  • Walt Disney You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.
    Walt Disney
    American producer (1901 - 1966)
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  • Horace You must often make erasures if you mean to write what is worthy of being read a second time; and don't labor for the admiration of the crowd, but be content with a few choice readers.
    Horace
    Roman poet
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  • Zig Ziglar You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win.
    Zig Ziglar
    American author, salesman, and motivational speaker. (1926 - 2012)
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  • Charles F. Kettering You will never stub your toe standing still. The faster you go, the more chance there is of stubbing your toe, but the more chance you have of getting somewhere.
    Charles F. Kettering
    American inventor (1876 - 1958)
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  • Joseph Addison Young people soon give, and forget insults, but old age is slow in both.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • George Orwell All animals are created equal, but some are more equal than others.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Haythum R. Khalid All power corrupts, but we need electricity.
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  • Ludwig Wittgenstein I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
    Ludwig Wittgenstein
    Austrian - English philosopher (1889 - 1951)
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  • Bernard Bailyn The full bibliography of pamphlets relating to the Anglo-American struggle published in the colonies through the year 1776 contains not a dozen or so items but over four hundred;
    The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution FOREWORD, p. v
    Bernard Bailyn
    American historian, author, and academic (1922 - 2020)
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  • W. H. Auden ''Healing,'' Papa would tell me, ''is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.''
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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  • Henry Ward Beecher ''I can forgive, but I cannot forget,'' is only another way of saying, ''I cannot forgive.''
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Marilyn French ''I hate discussions of feminism that end up with who does the dishes,'' she said. So do I. But at the end, there are always the damned dishes.
    Marilyn French
    American radical feminist author (1929 - 2009)
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  • William Blake ''I have no name:'' I am but two days old. ''What shall I call thee?'' I happy am, ''Joy is my name.'' sweet joy befall thee!
    William Blake
    English poet (1757 - 1827)
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  • Dag Hammarskjöld ''To forgive oneself? No, that doesn't work: we have to be forgiven. But we can only believe this is possible if we ourselves can forgive.
    Dag Hammarskjöld
    Swedish diplomat (1905 - 1961)
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  • Joseph Addison ''We are always doing,'' says he, ''something for posterity, but I would see posterity do something for us.''
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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