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  • Henry Ward Beecher Gambling with cards or dice or stocks is all one thing. It's getting money without giving an equivalent for it.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • John Haggai Gather in your resources, rally all your faculties, marshal all your energies, focus all your capacities upon mastery of at least one field of endeavor.
    John Haggai
    American evangelist (1924 - )
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  • Ban Ki-moon Gender equality and women's empowerment have been a top priority for me from day one as Secretary-General. And I am committed to making sure that the U.N. leads by example.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Bertolt Brecht General, man is very useful.
    He can fly and he can kill.
    But he has one defect:
    He can think.
    Poems, 1913-1956
    Bertolt Brecht
    German - Austrian writer (1898 - 1956)
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  • Bertolt Brecht General, your tank
    is a powerful vehicle
    it smashes down forests
    and crushes a hundred men.
    but it has one defect:
    it needs a driver.
    Poems, 1913-1956
    Bertolt Brecht
    German - Austrian writer (1898 - 1956)
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  • Horace Mann Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death; one proceeds from genuine liberality and benevolence, the other from pride or fear.
    Horace Mann
    American educator (1796 - 1859)
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  • Jean-Paul Sartre Generosity is nothing else than a craze to possess. All which I abandon, all which I give, I enjoy in a higher manner through the fact that I give it away. To give is to enjoy possessively the object which one gives.
    Jean-Paul Sartre
    French writer, philosopher and Nobel laureate in literature (1964) (1905 - 1980)
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  • Benjamin Haydon Genius in poverty is never feared, because nature, though liberal in her gifts in one instance, is forgetful in another.
    Benjamin Haydon
    British artist (1786 - 1846)
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  • Thomas Alva Edison Genius is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration.
    Thomas Alva Edison
    American inventor and founder of General Electric (1847 - 1931)
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  • Bill Medley George Klein says that Elvis had five real friends outside of his circle, and I was blessed to be one of them. I spent a lot of time with Elvis in Vegas and at Graceland.
    Bill Medley
    American singer and songwriter (1940 - )
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  • Bernadette Peters George M. is where I met my dear friend Joel Grey. We connected at rehearsal one day during a five-minute break. We were both looking out the same window and we knew in five minutes that we'd made a connection.
    Bernadette Peters
    American actress, singer, and author (1948 - )
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  • Kin Hubbard Getting talked about is one of the penalties for being pretty, while being above suspicion is about the only compensation for being homely.
    Kin Hubbard
    American cartoonist, humorist, and journalist (1868 - 1930)
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  • Bryce Dallas Howard Getting to have an opportunity to tell a story that is about mental illness and how it affects one's self and one's community was really something that really meant a lot to me.
    Bryce Dallas Howard
    American actress and filmmaker (1981 - )
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  • Basil Bunting Gin the goodwife stint
    and the bairns hunger
    the Duke can get his rent
    one year longer.
    Odes Gin the Goodwife Stint, I:14
    Basil Bunting
    British poet (1900 - 1985)
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  • Fran Lebowitz Girls who put out are tramps. Girls who don't are ladies. This is, however, a rather archaic usage of the word. Should one of you boys happen upon a girl who doesn't put out, do not jump to the conclusion that you have found a lady. What you have probably found is a lesbian.
    Fran Lebowitz
    American journalist (1950 - )
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  • Archimedes Give me a lever long enough, and a prop strong enough, I can single-handed move the world.
    Archimedes
    Greek mathematician, physicist, engineer, inventor, and astronomer (287 - 212)
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  • Dwight L. Moody Give me a man who says, ''This one thing I do,'' and not, ''These fifty things, I dabble in.
    Dwight L. Moody
    American evangelist (1837 - 1899)
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  • Harry S. Truman Give me a one-handed economist! All my economics say, ''On the one hand… on the other.''
    Harry S. Truman
    American president (1884 - 1972)
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  • Ella Wheeler Wilcox Give us that grand word ''woman'' once again, and let's have done with ''lady''; one's a term full of fine force, strong, beautiful, and firm, fit for the noblest use of tongue or pen; and one's a word for lackeys.
    Ella Wheeler Wilcox
    American Poet, Journalist (1850 - 1919)
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  • William James Mayo Given one well-trained physician of the highest type he will do better work for a thousand people than ten specialists.
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