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  • Henry Miller When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • Aeschylus When one is willing and eager, the Gods join in.
    Aeschylus
    Greek dramatist (525 - 456)
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  • Vladimir Ilyich Lenin When one makes a Revolution, one cannot mark time; one must always go forward - or go back. He who now talks about the ''freedom of the press'' goes backward, and halts our headlong course towards Socialism.
    Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
    Russian revolutionary leader (1870 - 1924)
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  • John Donne When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.
    John Donne
    English poet (1572 - 1631)
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  • Ellen Key When one paints an ideal, one does not need to limit one's imagination.
    Ellen Key
    Zweeds writer (1849 - 1926)
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  • Oscar Wilde When one pays a visit it is for the purpose of wasting other people's time, not one's own.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Edward Dahlberg When one realizes that his life is worthless he either commits suicide or travels.
    Edward Dahlberg
    American novelist, essayist and autobiographer (1900 - 1977)
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  • Bill Nye When one shows up in jeans and a T-shirt, I strongly feel that the audience reacts in a very different way than when you show up in a sport coat and a tie.
    Bill Nye
    American science communicator, television presenter (1955 - )
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  • Lord George Byron When one subtracts from life infancy (which is vegetation), sleep, eating and swilling, buttoning and unbuttoning - how much remains of downright existence? The summer of a dormouse.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Bernie S. Siegel When one teenager dying of cystic fibrosis asked me, 'Why am I different?' I answered, 'Tony, because it makes you beautiful.' He loved my answer because he knew full well how much he had done for the world and that he would be immortal through his love and the fund raising of those who knew him hoping to find a cure for cystic fibrosis.
    Bernie S. Siegel
    American writer and pediatric surgeon (1932 - )
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  • Arthur Wellesley When one turns over in bed, it is time to turn out.
    Arthur Wellesley
    Anglo-Irish soldier and statesman (1769 - 1852)
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  • George Eliot When one wanted one's interests looking after whatever the cost, it was not so well for a lawyer to be over honest, else he might not be up to other people's tricks.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • David Leavitt When one writer tries to silence another, he silences every writer-and in the end he also silences himself.
    David Leavitt
    American novelist and biographer (1961 - )
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  • Alan Alda When people are laughing, they're generally not killing one another.
    Alan Alda
    American actor, director, screenwriter, and author. (1936 - )
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  • Edith Wharton When people ask for time, it's always for time to say no. Yes has one more letter in it, but it doesn't take half as long to say.
    Edith Wharton
    American Author (1862 - 1937)
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  • Bryan Batt When people ask, 'What role are you dying to play?' I always say, 'The one being written for me right now.'
    Bryan Batt
    American actor (1963 - )
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  • George Bernard Shaw When people shake their heads because we are living in a restless age, ask them how they would like to life in a stationary one, and do without change
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • William B. Given When possible make the decisions now, even if action is in the future. A reviewed decision usually is better than one reached at the last moment.
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  • Carson Daly When reality television really hit, I just had a backlash towards reality. It seemed like a cheap way to make a product. And then when music reality and 'Idol hit,' I just didn't watch it, it seemed novelty. And of course the story of 'Idol,' this is one of the greatest stories in television history.
    Carson Daly
    American television host, radio personality and producer (1973 - )
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  • Napoleon When soldiers have been baptized in the fire of a battle-field, they have all one rank in my eyes.
    Napoleon
    French Emperor (1769 - 1821)
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