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  • Stephen Levine If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?
    Stephen Levine
    American poet and author (1937 - 2016)
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  • George Orwell In every one of those little stucco boxes there's some poor bastard who's never free except when he's fast asleep and dreaming that he's got the boss down the bottom of a well and is bunging lumps of coal at him.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Barbara Mandrell In my garden, which is a big garden, I have one part that is my bird garden, and every morning, 365 days a year, they get buckets of food - for the birds, for the squirrels, the chipmunks and the turtles in the summer.
    Barbara Mandrell
    American country music singer, musician, and actress (1948 - )
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  • George Orwell It is a corrupting thing to live one's real life in secret. One should live with the stream of life, not against it.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Aeschylus It is an easy thing for one whose foot is on the outside of calamity to give advice and to rebuke the sufferer.
    Aeschylus
    Greek dramatist (525 - 456)
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  • Confucius It is better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness.
    Confucius
    Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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  • Alfred Adler It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.
    Alfred Adler
    Austrian psychiatrist (1870 - 1937)
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  • Epictetus It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.
    Epictetus
    Roman philosopher (50 - 130)
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  • Henry Brooks Adams It is impossible to underrate human intelligence - beginning with one's own.
    Henry Brooks Adams
    American historian (1838 - 1918)
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg It is no great art to say something briefly when, like Tacitus, one has something to say; when one has nothing to say, however, and none the less writes a whole book and makes truth into a liar - that I call an achievement.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Virginia Woolf It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done.
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Voltaire It is not enough to conquer; one must learn to seduce.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • Blaise Pascal It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants.
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • George Orwell It is one of the tragedies of the half-educated that they develop late, when they are already committed to some wrong way of life.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Samuel Johnson It is very strange, and very melancholy, that the paucity of human pleasures should persuade us ever to call hunting one of them.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Henry David Thoreau It seems to me that the god that is commonly worshipped in civilized countries is not at all divine, though he bears a divine name, but is the overwhelming authority and respectability of mankind combined. Men reverence one another, not yet God.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Stephen R. Covey It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.
    Stephen R. Covey
    American educator, author and businessman (1932 - 2012)
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  • Henry David Thoreau It takes two to speak the truth, one to speak, and another to hear.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Harold S. Geneen It's better to take over and build upon an existing business than to start a new one.
    Harold S. Geneen
    American Accountant, Industrialist, CEO, ITT (1910 - 1997)
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  • Sigmund Freud Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.
    Sigmund Freud
    Austrian psychiatrist (1856 - 1939)
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