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  • Alexander Chase One who understands much displays a greater simplicity of character than one who understands little.
    Alexander Chase
    American journalist and editor (1926 - )
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  • B. Carroll Reece One who works for his own profit is likely to work hard. One who works for the use of others, without profit to himself, is likely not to work any harder than he must.
    B. Carroll Reece
    American politician (1889 - 1961)
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  • Ben Shapiro One wonders what exactly Israel did to earn Arab enmity between 1948 and 1967, when Egypt controlled the Gaza Strip and Jordan controlled Judea and Samaria.
    Ben Shapiro
    American conservative political commentator and attorney (1984 - )
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  • Sophocles One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life; that word is love.
    Sophocles
    Greek poet (496 - 406)
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  • Dan Quayle One word sums up probably the responsibility of any vice president, and that one word is to be prepared.
    Dan Quayle
    American politician (1947 - )
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  • B. C. Forbes One worthwhile task carried to a successful conclusion is better than 50 half-finished tasks
    B. C. Forbes
    American Publisher (1880 - 1954)
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  • Harriet Beecher Stowe One would like to be grand and heroic, if one could; but if not, why try at all? One wants to be very something, very great, very heroic; or if not that, then at least very stylish and very fashionable. It is this everlasting mediocrity that bores me.
    Harriet Beecher Stowe
    American Novelist (1811 - 1896)
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  • James Baldwin One writes out of one thing only-one's own experience.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Alfred Kazin One writes to make a home for oneself, on paper, in time and in others' minds.
    Alfred Kazin
     
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  • Thomas Arnold One's age should be tranquil, as childhood should be playful. Hard work at either extremity of life seems out of place. At midday the sun may burn, and men labor under it; but the morning and evening should be alike calm and cheerful.
    Thomas Arnold
    English educator and historian (1795 - 1842)
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  • Henry Miller One's destination is never a place, but rather a new way of looking at things.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • John Galsworthy One's eyes are what one is, one's mouth is what one becomes.
    John Galsworthy
    British writer, playwright (1867 - 1933)
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  • Frederick Farrar One's liberty should end when it becomes the curse of his neighbor.
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  • Simone de Beauvoir One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.
    Simone de Beauvoir
    French writer and philosopher (1908 - 1986)
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  • Arthur Christopher Benson One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do.
    Arthur Christopher Benson
    English essayist, poet, author and academic (1862 - 1925)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes One's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Abraham H. Maslow One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.
    Abraham H. Maslow
    American psychologist (1908 - 1970)
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  • Oscar Wilde One's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Eleanor Roosevelt One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes. In the long run, we shape our lives and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And, the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.
    Eleanor Roosevelt
    American "First Lady" and columnist (1884 - 1962)
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  • Muriel Spark One's prime is elusive. You little girls, when you grow up, must be on the alert to recognize your prime at whatever time of your life it may occur. You must then live it to the full.
    Muriel Spark
    British writer (1918 - 2006)
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