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  • Henry Ward Beecher A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Bob Mayer A one-hundred-thousand-word novel might take a year or several years, and then you just come to 'The End' one day. But it takes hundreds of days to get to 'The End.' As a writer, you have to put in those hundreds of days.
    Bob Mayer
    American author (1959 - )
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  • Carlos Gershenson A one-night-stander is someone who does not dare to explore the full potential of a relationship, just like a child who is afraid to go to the deep part of the pool. The latter does not want to learn how to swim, the former does not want to learn how to live.
    Zire Notes May 2004 December 2006
    Carlos Gershenson
    Mexican author and academic (1978 - )
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  • Pat Riley A particular shot or way of moving the ball can be a player's personal signature, but efficiency of performance is what wins the game for the team.
    Pat Riley
    American basketball coach (1945 - )
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  • Bobby Seale A people who have suffered so much for so long at hands of a racist society must draw the line somewhere.... the black communities of America must rise up as one man to halt the progression of a trend that leads inevitably to their total destruction.
    Bobby Seale
    American political activist (1936 - )
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  • I Ching A person in danger should not try to escape at one stroke. He should first calmly hold his own, then be satisfied with small gains, which will come by creative adaptations.
    I Ching
    Chinese classical text (Book of Changes)
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  • B. F. Skinner A person who has been punished is not less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns how to avoid punishment.
    B. F. Skinner
    American psychologist, behaviorist and author (1904 - 1990)
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  • Emily Brontë A person who has not done one half his day's work by ten o'clock, runs a chance of leaving the other half undone.
    Wuthering Heights (1847)
    Emily Brontë
    British writer, poet (1818 - 1848)
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  • Alexander Pope A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Walter Winchell A pessimist is one who builds dungeons in the air.
    Walter Winchell
    American newspaper and radio commentator (1897 - 1972)
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  • Elbert Hubbard A pessimist is one who has been compelled to live with an optimist.
    Elbert Hubbard
    American writer and publisher (1856 - 1915)
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  • Salman Rushdie A photograph is a moral decision taken in one eighth of a second.
    The Ground Beneath Her Feet (2000) 13
    Salman Rushdie
    Engels writer (1947 - )
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  • George Bernard Shaw A photographer is like a cod, which produces a million eggs in order that one may reach maturity.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Edgar Saltus A plain woman is one who, however beautiful, neglects to charm.
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  • Arthur Miller A playwright is the litmus paper of the arts. He's got to be, because if he isn't working on the same wave length as the audience, no one would know what in hell he was talking about. He is a kind of psychic journalist, even when he's great.
    Arthur Miller
    American Dramatist (1915 - 2005)
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  • Arthur Miller A playwright lives in an occupied country. And if you can't live that way you don't stay.
    Arthur Miller
    American Dramatist (1915 - 2005)
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  • Allen Tate A poem may be an instance of morality, of social conditions, of psychological history; it may instance all its qualities, but never one of them alone, nor any two or three; never less than all.
    Allen Tate
    American poet and essayist (1899 - 1979)
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  • John Jay Chapman A political organization is a transferable commodity. You could not find a better way of killing virtue than by packing it into one of these contraptions which some gang of thieves is sure to find useful.
    John Jay Chapman
    American author (1862 - 1933)
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  • Mark Twain A powerful agent is the right word. Whenever we come upon one of those intensely right words... the resulting effect is physical as well as spiritual, and electrically prompt.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • W. H. Auden A professor is one who talks in someone else's sleep.
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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