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  • Antisthenes Observe your enemies, for they first find out your faults.
    Antisthenes
    Greek philosopher (445 - 365)
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  • Albert Schweitzer Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.
    Albert Schweitzer
    German physician, theologian, philosopher, musician (1875 - 1965)
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  • Barbara McClintock When you know you're right, you don't care what others think. You know sooner or later it will come out in the wash.
    Barbara McClintock
    American scientist and cytogeneticist (1902 - 1992)
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  • Beatrice Webb ... if I had been a man, self-respect, family pressure and the public opinion of my class would have pushed me into a money-making profession; as a mere woman I could carve out a career of disinterested research.
    Beatrice Webb
    English sociologist and economist (1858 - 1943)
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  • Pam Brown A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often - just to save it from drying out completely.
    Pam Brown
    Australian poet (1948 - )
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  • Oscar Wilde A gentleman never looks out of the window.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Buddha A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • Cyril Connolly A lazy person, whatever the talents with which he set out, will have condemned himself to second-hand thoughts and to second-rate friends.
    Cyril Connolly
    British criticus (1903 - 1974)
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  • John Updike A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world.
    John Updike
    American writer and criticus (1932 - 2009)
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  • C. S. Lewis A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.
    The problem of pain p. 41
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Oliver Goldsmith A modest woman, dressed out in all her finery, is the most tremendous object of the whole creation.
    Oliver Goldsmith
    Irish writer and poet (1728 - 1774)
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  • Betty Friedan A woman has got to be able to say, and not feel guilty, 'Who am I, and what do I want out of life?' She mustn't feel selfish and neurotic if she wants goals of her own, outside of husband and children.
    Betty Friedan
    American feministisch writer (1921 - 2006)
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  • Sun Tzu All men can see these tactics whereby I conquer, but what none can see is the strategy out of which victory is evolved.
    Sun Tzu
    Chinese general and strategist (544 - 496)
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  • Thomas E. Lawrence All men dream, but unequally. Those that dream at night in the dusty recesses of their minds awake the next day to find that their dreams were just vanity. But those who dream during the day with their eyes wide open are dangerous men; they act out their dreams to make them reality.
    Thomas E. Lawrence
    British archaeologist, military officer, diplomat, and writer (1888 - 1935)
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  • Karl Marx All social rules and all relations between individuals are eroded by a cash economy, avarice drags Pluto himself out of the bowels of the earth.
    Karl Marx
    German economist and state philosopher (1818 - 1883)
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  • David Cronenberg All stereotypes turn out to be true. This is a horrifying thing about life. All those things you fought against as a youth: you begin to realize they're stereotypes because they're true.
    David Cronenberg
    Canadian movie maker (1943 - )
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  • Carre Otis Anorexia was there for me before I got into modeling, but because of the arena and the demands, the disease really got out of control for me. It's like being an alcoholic and going and being a bartender.
    Carre Otis
    American model and actress (1968 - )
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  • Bernie Worrell As far as arrangements after the basic track is cut, if I'm writing a horn arrangement or playing strings, I might arrange that, plan that out. Other times, I'll just sit and roll tape.
    Bernie Worrell
    American keyboardist and record producer (1944 - 2016)
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  • Thomas Jefferson Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Bea Arthur But that's one of the nice things about doing a stage show, if something doesn't work out, you have the luxury of working on it over time.
    Bea Arthur
    American actress and comedian (1922 - 2009)
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