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  • Albert Camus The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Elbert Hubbard The stupidity of one brain multiplied by twelve.
    Elbert Hubbard
    American writer and publisher (1856 - 1915)
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  • B. D. Wong The success of the storytellers - we're only as good as what we can withhold from the audience. Aspects of surprise and letting things play out for the audience - it's so much a part of their enjoyment. It's one of the great things about working in the movies and being a great storyteller.
    B. D. Wong
    American actor (1960 - )
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  • Roy L. Smith The successful man is the one who finds out what is the matter with his business before his competitors do.
    Roy L. Smith
    American clergyman and author
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  • Erich Fromm The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal.
    Erich Fromm
    German - American philosopher and psychologist (1900 - 1980)
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  • Burton Richter The sun doesn't shine at night, and wind power is highly variable. To meet our emissions goals, we're going to have to grasp every arrow in the quiver, and nuclear is one of those arrows.
    Burton Richter
    American physicist (1931 - 2018)
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  • Henry James The superiority of one man's opinion over another's is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman.
    Henry James
    American author (1843 - 1916)
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  • Lao-Tzu The supreme excellence is not to win a hundred victories in a hundred battles. The supreme excellence is to subdue the armies of your enemies without even having to fight them.
    Lao-Tzu
    Chinese philosopher (600 - 550)
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  • Aleister Crowley The supreme satisfaction is to be able to despise one's neighbor and this fact goes far to account for religious intolerance. It is evidently consoling to reflect that the people next door are headed for hell.
    Aleister Crowley
    British occultist, writer, and mountaineer (1875 - 1947)
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld The sure mark of one born with noble qualities is being born without envy.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld The sure way to be cheated is to think one's self more cunning than others.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • John Cheever The task of an American writer is not to describe the misgivings of a woman taken in adultery as she looks out of a window at the rain but to describe four hundred people under the lights reaching for a foul ball. This is ceremony.
    John Cheever
    American writer (1912 - 1982)
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  • Elbert Hubbard The teacher is one who makes two ideas grow where only one grew before.
    Elbert Hubbard
    American writer and publisher (1856 - 1915)
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  • Elbert Hubbard The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and the true teacher is the learner.
    Elbert Hubbard
    American writer and publisher (1856 - 1915)
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  • Abdoulaye Wade The teacher that I was for decades, and that I still am in a certain way, wondered what was meant by the word education. I was truly dumbfounded at the very thought of dealing with such an essential and extensive subject.
    Abdoulaye Wade
    Senegalese politician (1926 - )
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  • Samuel Beckett The tears of the world are a constant quality. For each one who begins to weep, somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh.
    Samuel Beckett
    Irish dramatist and novelist (1906 - 1989)
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  • Anatole Broyard The tension between 'yes' and 'no,' between 'I can' and 'I cannot,' makes us feel that, in so many instances, human life is an interminable debate with one's self.
    Anatole Broyard
    American writer, literary critic, and editor (0 - 1990)
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  • Arthur Levitt The tension between centrality, on the one hand, and competition, on the other, is probably the oldest of all market structure issues.
    Arthur Levitt
    American SEC chairman (1931 - )
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  • Leonard Cohen The term clinical depression finds its way into too many conversations these days. One has a sense that a catastrophe has occurred in the psychic landscape.
    Leonard Cohen
    Canadian-born American Musician, Songwriter, Singer (1934 - 2016)
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  • Milovan Djilas The terrible thing is that one cannot be a Communist and not let oneself in for the shameful act of recantation. One cannot be a Communist and preserve an iota of one's personal integrity.
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