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  • Charlotte Brontë It seemed as if my tongue pronounced words without my will consenting to their utterance: something spoke out of me over which I had no control.
    Jane Eyre (1847) ch. 4
    Charlotte Brontë
    British Novelist (1816 - 1855)
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  • Frederick the Great It seems to me that man is made to act rather than to know: the principles of things escape our most persevering researches.
    Frederick the Great
    King of Prussia (1740-1786) (1712 - 1786)
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  • Carl Sagan It seems to me what is called for is an exquisite balance between two conflicting needs: the most skeptical scrutiny of all hypotheses that are served up to us and at the same time a great openness to new ideas... If you are only skeptical, then no new ideas make it through to you... On the other hand, if you are open to the point of gullibility and have not an ounce of skeptical sense in you, then you cannot distinguish the useful ideas from the worthless ones.
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Boris Pasternak It snowed and snowed, the whole world over, Snow swept the world from end to end. A candle burned on the table; A candle burned.
    Boris Pasternak
    Russian writer (1890 - 1960)
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  • Henry James It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
    Henry James
    American author (1843 - 1916)
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  • John Ruskin It takes a great deal of living to get a little deal of learning.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Calvin Coolidge It takes a great man to be a good listener.
    Calvin Coolidge
    American president (1872 - 1933)
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  • Eknath Easwaran It takes a lot of experience of life to see why some relationships last and others do not. But we do not have to wait for a crisis to get an idea of the future of a particular relationship. Our behavior in little every incidents tells us a great deal.
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  • Bruce Barton It takes a real storm in the average person's life to make him realize how much worrying he has done over the squalls.
    Bruce Barton
    American Author, Advertising Executive (1886 - 1967)
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld It takes great cleverness to be able to conceal one's cleverness.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • David Foster Wallace It takes great personal courage to let yourself appear weak.
    Grap zonder einde (1996)
    David Foster Wallace
    American author (1962 - 2008)
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  • Alice Hoffman It was a great escape for me and it was a way to take a break from what was going on in my own world, to go into another world.
    Alice Hoffman
    American novelist (1952 - )
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  • Alice Hoffman It was a great escape for me and it was a way to take a break from what was going on in my own world, to go into another world.
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  • Bailey Chase It was a great time to grow up in Chicago. It was the mid-'80s, and we had the '85 Bears and the Michael Jordan era.
    Bailey Chase
    American actor (1972 - )
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  • Barbara Ehrenreich It was a real surprise to me to come across the evidence that Christianity might once have been a danced religion. Certainly, some of the early church leaders thought this was great and spoke of what seems to have been circle dancing, perhaps around an altar.
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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  • O. Henry It was beautiful and simple as all truly great swindles are.
    O. Henry
    American short story writer, pen name of William S. Porter (1862 - 1910)
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  • Buffalo Bill It was because of my great interest in the West, and my belief that its development would be assisted by the interest I could awaken in others, that I decided to bring the West to the East through the medium of the Wild West Show.
    An Autobiography of Buffalo Bill (1920)
    Buffalo Bill
    American soldier, bison hunter, and showman (1846 - 1917)
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  • Callum Keith Rennie It was funny on '24' because I'm a Scots-Canadian, and I was working with the great Scottish actor Tony Curran, and we were both playing Russian gangsters.
    Callum Keith Rennie
    British-born Canadian actor (1960 - )
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  • Barry Gibb It was great being together as a band, but much more difficult being brothers than it was being in a band.
    Barry Gibb
    British-American musician and singer-songwriter (1946 - )
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  • Billy Wilder It was hell at the time, but after it was over, it was wonderful.
    Billy Wilder
    Austrian-American filmmaker, screenwriter, producer and artist (1906 - 2002)
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