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  • Henry David Thoreau The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Robert Burns Their sighing , canting , grace-proud faces, their three-mile prayers, and half-mile graces.
    Robert Burns
    Scottish Poet (1759 - 1796)
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  • W. E. B. Du Bois There are certain books in the world which every searcher for truth must know: the Bible, the Critique of Pure Reason, the Origin of Species, and Karl Marx's Capital.
    W. E. B. Du Bois
    American sociologist, historian, civil rights activist and writer (1868 - 1963)
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  • Thomas Carlyle There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Mark Twain There are lies, damned lies, and statistics.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • John Ray There are no better cosmetics than a severe temperance and purity, modesty and humility, a gracious temper and calmness of spirit; and there is no true beauty without the signatures of these graces in the very countenance.
    John Ray
    English naturalist (1627 - 1705)
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  • Barbara Kruger There are so many moments and works that influence us in what we do. Movies, music, TV and, most importantly, the profound everydayness of our lives.
    Barbara Kruger
    American artist (1945 - )
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  • Stephen R. Covey There are three constants in life: change, choice and principles.
    Stephen R. Covey
    American educator, author and businessman (1932 - 2012)
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  • Louis Dudek There are two kinds of people; those who are always well and those who are always sick. Most of the evils of the world come from the first sort and most of the achievement from the second.
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  • Booker T. Washington There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.
    Booker T. Washington
    American Black Leader and Educator (1856 - 1915)
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  • Natalie Clifford Barney There are. intangible realities which float near us, formless and without words; realities which no one has thought out, and which are excluded for lack of interpreters.
    Natalie Clifford Barney
    American-born French author (1876 - 1972)
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  • George Eliot There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Percy Bysshe Shelley There is a harmony in autumn, and a luster in its sky, which through the summer is not heard or seen, as if it could not be, as if it had not been!
    Percy Bysshe Shelley
    English poet (1792 - 1822)
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  • Washington Irving There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love.
    Washington Irving
    American writer (1783 - 1859)
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  • William Shakespeare There is a tide in the affairs of men, which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound by shallows and in misery.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Eric Hoffer There is a totalitarian regime inside every one of us. We are ruled by a ruthless politburo which sets our norms and drives us from one five-year plan to another. The autonomous individual who has to justify his existence by his own efforts is in eternal bondage to himself.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Cameron Boyce There is always something funny going on between scenes with Adam Sandler. He's always cracking jokes and yelling at people for no reason. It's pretty funny. He'll joke around during scenes, too. When he guest-starred on 'Jessie,' there was nothing in the script that he said first take.
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  • Booker T. Washington There is another class of colored people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs-partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs.
    My Larger Education: Being Chapters from My Experience (1911)
    Booker T. Washington
    American Black Leader and Educator (1856 - 1915)
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  • William James There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision, and for whom the lighting of every cigar, the drinking of every cup, the time of rising and going to bed every day, and the beginning of every bit of work, are subjects of express volitional deliberation.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Nelson Mandela There is no passion to be found in playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.
    Nelson Mandela
    South African anti-apartheid revolutionary and political leader (1918 - 2013)
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