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  • Francoise Sagan It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the ''fronts'' people assume before one another's eyes, and the ''front'' a writer puts on the face of reality.
    Francoise Sagan
    French writer (1935 - 2004)
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne It should be noted that children's games are not merely games. One should regard them as their most serious activities.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Mark Twain It takes an enemy and a friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart. The one to slander you, and the other to get the news to you.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Robert H. Schuller It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.
    Robert H. Schuller
    American Christian televangelist, pastor, motivational speaker, and au (1926 - 2015)
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  • Judith Rossner It takes far less courage to kill yourself than it takes to make yourself wake up one more time. It is harder to stay where you are than to get out.
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld It takes great cleverness to be able to conceal one's cleverness.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • W. H. Auden It takes little talent to see clearly what lies under one's nose, a good deal of it to know in which direction to point that organ.
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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  • Rosa Parks It takes more than one person to bring about peace - it takes all of us.
    Rosa Parks
    American activist in the civil rights movement (1913 - 2005)
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  • Charles A. Garfield It takes no genius to observe that a one man band never gets very big.
    Charles A. Garfield
    American psychologist and author (1944 - )
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  • Helen Rowland It takes one woman twenty years to make a man of her son—and another woman twenty minutes to make a fool of him.
    A Guide to Men (1922)
    Helen Rowland
    American journalist (1875 - 1950)
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  • Herbert Louis 1st Viscount Samuel It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure.
    Herbert Louis 1st Viscount Samuel
    British politician and diplomat (1870 - 1963)
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  • Henry David Thoreau It takes two to speak truth - one to speak, and another to hear.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Barack Obama It took a lot of blood, sweat and tears to get to where we are today, but we have just begun. Today we begin in earnest the work of making sure that the world we leave our children is just a little bit better than the one we inhabit today.
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Hank Aaron It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course.
    Hank Aaron
    American Major League Baseball (MLB) right fielder (1934 - )
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  • Caspar Weinberger It took the Gulf War to demonstrate that America did want more than one friend in the Mideast, and also was willing to take and make major risks to prevent a small Muslim country, Kuwait, from being overrun and in effect stolen by Iraq.
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  • Antoine Lavoisier It took them only an instant to cut of that head, but it is unlikely that a hundred years will suffice to reproduce a singular one.
    Antoine Lavoisier
    French nobleman and chemist (1743 - 1794)
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  • Caitlin Moran It used to be if you wanted something nice to wear, you would sew it yourself for your body type. Women before the 20th century didn't have this problem. Now, it seems we're all squeezed into random designs. They're designed for no one.
    Caitlin Moran
    English journalist, author, and broadcaster (1975 - )
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  • Charles Dickens It was a good thing to have a couple of thousand people all rigid and frozen together, in the palm of one's hand.
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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  • Berkeley Breathed It was a huge challenge to learn digital painting well enough so that computers don't pop into mind when one sees one.
    Berkeley Breathed
    American cartoonist, director and screenwriter (1957 - )
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  • Bobby Darin It was as though all my hostilities, anxieties, and conflicts were in one ball that was flying away into space, farther from me all the time, leaving me content with myself.
    Bobby Darin
    American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, impressionist, and actor (1936 - 1973)
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