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  • Bernard of Clairvaux Slander is a poison which kills charity, both in the slanderer and the one who listens.
    Bernard of Clairvaux
    French abbot (1090 - 1153)
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  • Plautus Slander-mongers and those who listen to slander, if I had my way, would all be strung up, the talkers by the tongue, the listeners by the ears.
    Plautus
    Roman comic poet (250 - 184)
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  • Maria Weston Chapman Slavery can only be abolished by raising the character of the people who compose the nation; and that can be done only by showing them a higher one.
    Maria Weston Chapman
    American abolitionist (1806 - 1885)
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  • W. H. Auden Slavery is so intolerable a condition that the slave can hardly escape deluding himself into thinking that he is choosing to obey his master's commands when, in fact, he is obliged to. Most slaves of habit suffer from this delusion and so do some writers, enslaved by an all too ''personal'' style.
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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  • Djuna Barnes Sleep demands of us a guilty immunity. There is not one of us who, given an eternal incognito, a thumbprint nowhere set against our souls, would not commit rape, murder and all abominations.
    Djuna Barnes
    American writer and artist (1892 - 1982)
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  • Comte De Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont Sleep is a reward for some, a punishment for others. For all, it is a sanction.
    Comte De Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont
    French author, poet (1846 - 1870)
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  • William Golding Sleep is when all the unsorted stuff comes flying out as from a dustbin upset in a high wind.
    William Golding
    British writer (1911 - 1993)
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  • Benjamin Franklin Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry, all things easy. He that rises late must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night, while laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Samuel Johnson Small debts are like small gun shot; they are rattling around us on all sides and one can scarcely escape being wounded. Large debts are like canons, they produce a loud noise, but are of little danger.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Bing Gordon Smart people tend to enjoy thinking about a lot of things at once. I'd say entrepreneurs should be serial monogamists; do one thing at a time until you make sufficient progress and then move on.
    Bing Gordon
    American video game executive and technology venture capitalist
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  • Anthony J. D'Angelo Smile, it is the key that fits the lock of everybody's heart.
    Anthony J. D'Angelo
    American writer
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  • Boris Pasternak Snow, snow over the whole land
    across all boundaries.
    The candle burned on the table,
    the candle burned.
    Doctor Zhivago (1957)
    Boris Pasternak
    Russian writer (1890 - 1960)
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  • Brit Marling So at some point you realize that your life is not just going to start one day in the future, that you're living it.
    Brit Marling
    American actress and screenwriter (1982 - )
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  • Barry McCaffrey So at the end of the day, our number 1 goal, our top priority, is to motivate American youngsters to reject the abuse of illegal drugs, tobacco and alcohol. All three of them are illegal behaviors.
    Barry McCaffrey
    American Army officer, professor and business consultant (1942 - )
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  • Ben Vereen So be encouraged and dedicate yourself to your dream and if your dream should come my way one day then we will dance upon the boards of life.
    Ben Vereen
    American actor, dancer and singer (1946 - )
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  • Bertrand Russell So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.
    Bertrand Russells Best
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Samuel Johnson So far is it from being true that men are naturally equal, that no two people can be half an hour together, but one shall acquire an evident superiority over the other.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Buffalo Bill So for twelve miles I rode with Sherman, and we became fast friends. He asked me all manner of questions on the way, and I found that he knew my father well, and remembered his tragic death in Salt Creek Valley.
    An Autobiography of Buffalo Bill (2009 edition)
    Buffalo Bill
    American soldier, bison hunter, and showman (1846 - 1917)
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  • Andrew Grove So give me a turbulent world as opposed to a quiet world and I'll take the turbulent one.
    Andrew Grove
    Hungarian-born American businessman, engineer and author (1936 - 2016)
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  • Bono So I humbly accept the honor, keeping in mind the words of a British playwright, John Mortimer it was, No brilliance is needed in the law. Nothing but common sense and relatively clean fingernails. Well at best I've got one of the two of those.
    PENN Address (2004)
    Bono
    Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
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