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  • Natalie Clifford Barney To be one's own master is to be the slave of self.
    Natalie Clifford Barney
    American-born French author (1876 - 1972)
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  • Bono To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.
    Bono
    Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
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  • George Washington To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.
    George Washington
    First president of the US (1732 - 1799)
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  • John Updike To be President of the United States, sir, is to act as advocate for a blind, venomous, and ungrateful client; still, one must make the best of the case, for the purposes of Providence.
    John Updike
    American writer and criticus (1932 - 2009)
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  • Benjamin Franklin To be thrown upon one's own resources, is to be cast into the very lap of fortune; for our faculties then undergo a development and display an energy of which they were previously unsusceptible.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Leszczynski Stanislaus To be vain of one's rank or place is to show that one is below it.
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  • Mark Van Doren To be what no one ever was, to be what everyone has been: Freedom is the mean of those extremes that fence all effort in.
    Mark Van Doren
    American poet, writer and critic (1894 - 1972)
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  • André Maurois To be witty is not enough. One must possess sufficient wit to avoid having too much of it.
    André Maurois
    French writer (ps. van mile Herzog) (1885 - 1967)
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  • Jane Harrison To be womanly is one thing, and one only; it is to be sensitive to man, to be highly endowed with the sex instinct; to be manly is to be sensitive to woman.
    Jane Harrison
    British classical scholar and linguist
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  • Oscar Wilde To become a spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • James Allen To begin to think with purpose, is to enter the ranks of those strong ones who only recognize failure as one of the pathways to attainment.
    James Allen
    British philosophical writer (1864 - 1912)
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  • Abraham Lincoln To correct the evils, great and small, which spring from want of sympathy and from positive enmity among strangers, as nations or as individuals, is one of the highest functions of civilization.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Henry James To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession, to establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one's own.
    Henry James
    American author (1843 - 1916)
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  • Arthur Wellesley Duke of Wellington To define it rudely but not ineptly, engineering is the art of doing that well with one dollar, which any bungler can do with two after a fashion.
    Arthur Wellesley Duke of Wellington
    Irish military leader and statesman, defeated Napoleon (1769 - 1852)
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  • Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle To despise theory is to have the excessively vain pretension to do without knowing what one does, and to speak without knowing what one says.
    Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle
    French author (1657 - 1757)
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  • Walt Whitman To die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.
    Walt Whitman
    American poet, essayist, and journalist (1819 - 1892)
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  • Plutarch To do an evil act is base. To do a good one without incurring danger, is common enough. But it is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds though he risks everything in doing them.
    Plutarch
    Greek biographer and essayist (46 - 120)
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  • Buddha To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • Barbara W. Tuchman To ensure that no one gained an advantage over anyone else, commercial law [in the 14th century] prohibited innovation in tools or techniques, underselling below a fixed price, working late by artificial light, employing extra apprentices or wife and underage children, and advertising of wares or praising them to the detriment of others.
    Barbara W. Tuchman
    American historian (1912 - 1989)
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  • Baltasar Gracián To equal a predecessor, one must have twice they worth.
    Baltasar Gracián
    Spanish Jesuit and philosopher (1601 - 1658)
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