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  • Vauvenargues The greatest achievement of the human spirit is to live up to one's opportunities and make the most of one's resources.
    Vauvenargues
    French philosopher (1715 - 1747)
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  • Salman Rushdie The liveliness of literature lies in its exceptionality, in being the individual, idiosyncratic vision of one human being, in which, to our delight and great surprise, we may find our own vision reflected.
    Salman Rushdie
    Engels writer (1947 - )
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  • Heywood Broun The most prolific period of pessimism comes at twenty-one or thereabouts, when the first attempt is made to translate dreams into reality.
    Heywood Broun
    American Journalist, Novelist (1888 - 1939)
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  • Aristotle The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The one thing in the world, of value, is the active soul.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • John Keats The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothing -to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts. Not a select party.
    John Keats
    English poet (1795 - 1821)
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  • Bernard Mandeville The only thing of weight that can be said against modern honor is that it is directly opposite to religion. The one bids you bear injuries with patience, the other tells you if you don't resent them, you are not fit to live.
    Bernard Mandeville
    British writer and artist (1670 - 1733)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The only way to have a friend is to be one.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Katherine Mansfield The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives whith another who shares the same books.
    Katherine Mansfield
    New Zealand-born British Author (1888 - 1923)
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  • James Baldwin The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an immediate knowledge of its ugly side.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Al Sharpton The promise of America is one immigration policy for all who seek to enter our shores, whether they come from Mexico, Haiti or Canada, there must be one set of rules for everybody. We cannot welcome those to come and then try and act as though any culture will not be respected or treated inferior. We cannot look at the Latino community and preach 'one language.' No one gave them an English test before they sent them to Iraq to fight for America.
    Al Sharpton
    American civil rights activist, Baptist minister and talk show host (1954 - )
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  • Voltaire The public is a ferocious beast. One must either chain it up or flee from it.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • Edward Hoagland The question of whether it's God's green earth is not at center stage, except in the sense that if so, one is reminded with some regularity that He may be dying.
    Edward Hoagland
    American Novelist, Essayist (1932 - )
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  • Katherine Anne Porter The real sin against life is to abuse and destroy beauty, even one's own -even more, one's own, for that has been put in our care and we are responsible for its well-being.
    Katherine Anne Porter
    American short-story writer (1890 - 1980)
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  • B. R. Ambedkar The relationship between husband and wife should be one of closest friends.
    B. R. Ambedkar
    Indian jurist, economist and politician (1891 - 1956)
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  • James Newman The Theory of Groups is a branch of mathematics in which one does something to something and then compares the result with the result obtained from doing the same thing to something else, or something else to the same thing.
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  • Joseph Rudyard Kipling The Three in One, the One in Three? Not so! To my own Gods I go. It may be they shall give me greater ease than your cold Christ and tangled Trinities.
    Joseph Rudyard Kipling
    English writer (1865 - 1936)
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  • Sir Matthew Hale The vanity of loving fine clothes and new fashion, and placing value on ourselves by them is one of the most childish pieces of folly.
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  • A. W. Tozer The Word of God well understood and religiously obeyed is the shortest route to spiritual perfection. And we must not select a few favorite passages to the exclusion of others. Nothing less than a whole Bible can make a whole Christian.
    A. W. Tozer
    American Christian pastor, preacher and author
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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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