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  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau Adversity is a great teacher, but this teacher makes us pay dearly for its instruction; and often the profit we derive, is not worth the price we paid.
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    French writer and philosopher (1712 - 1778)
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  • Sir Walter Scott Adversity is, to me at least, a tonic and a bracer.
    Sir Walter Scott
    British writer and poet (1771 - 1832)
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  • Victor Hugo Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.
    Victor Hugo
    French writer (1802 - 1885)
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  • Calvin Coolidge Advertising ministers to the spiritual side of trade. It is great power that has been entrusted to your keeping which charges you with the high responsibility of inspiring and ennobling the commercial world. It is all part of the greater work of the regeneration and redemption of mankind.
    Calvin Coolidge
    American president (1872 - 1933)
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  • Bryce Courtenay Advertising seemed almost natural to me because it was a business where you had to inform, persuade and educate. And so from being a junior copywriter to being the creative director of one of the largest advertising agencies in the country took me 4.5 years, which is, well, a fairly spectacular rise.
    Bryce Courtenay
    South African-Australian advertising director and novelist (1933 - 2012)
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  • Bryce Courtenay Advertising was only meant to be a very small part of my life. I had intended that I would work extensively in journalism for about five or six years and then I'd become a writer.
    Bryce Courtenay
    South African-Australian advertising director and novelist (1933 - 2012)
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  • Angela Carter Aeneas carried his aged father on his back from the ruins of Troy and so do we all, whether we like it or not, perhaps even if we have never known them.
    Angela Carter
    British author (1940 - 1992)
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  • Aesop Affairs are easier of entrance than of exit; and it is but common prudence to see our way out before we venture in.
    Aesop
    Greek fabulist and story teller (620 - 564)
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  • C. S. Lewis Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Bo Bennett Affiliate marketing has made businesses millions and ordinary people millionaires.
    Bo Bennett
    American author (1972 - )
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  • John Donne Affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath enough of it.
    John Donne
    English poet (1572 - 1631)
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  • Bono Africa is a continent in flames. And deep down, if we really accepted that Africans were equal to us, we would all do more to put the fire out. We're standing around with watering cans, when what we really need is the fire brigade.
    Bono
    Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
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  • Birgitte Hjort Sorensen After 'Pitch Perfect' premiered, I've got so many sweet expressions from people who enjoyed 'Pitch Perfect' and now the episode of 'Game of Thrones.'
    Birgitte Hjort Sorensen
    Danish actrice (1982 - )
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  • Butch Trucks After 'Win, Lose or Draw' we were workin' on another album that nobody's ever heard, and it's a good thing nobody heard it.
    Butch Trucks
    American musician (1947 - 2017)
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  • Brian K. Vaughan After 9/11, I knew I wanted to write about power and identity and the way Americans on all sides of the political spectrum often mythologize our leaders, which are themes that the superhero genre has always handled really well.
    Brian K. Vaughan
    American comic book and television writer (1976 - )
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  • Campbell Brown After a 15-year career in television news, sometimes spent biting my tongue in the name of objectivity and balance, I retired to raise our two small children.
    Campbell Brown
    American journalist (1968 - )
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  • Adelbert von Chamisso After a prosperous, but to me very wearisome, voyage, we came at last into port. Immediately on landing I got together my few effects; and, squeezing myself through the crowd, went into the nearest and humblest inn which first met my gaze.
    Adelbert von Chamisso
    German writer, liar and explorer (1781 - 1838)
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  • William S. Burroughs After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn't do it. I sure as hell wouldn't want to live in a society where the only people allowed guns are the police and the military.
    William S. Burroughs
    American writer and artist (1914 - 1997)
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  • Blaise Pascal After all he is only a man, that is to say capable of little and of much, of all and of nothing; he is neither angel nor brute, but man.
    Source: Pensees (1669)
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Aesop After all is said and done, more is said than done.
    Aesop
    Greek fabulist and story teller (620 - 564)
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