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  • Lao-Tzu He who gains a victory over other men is strong; but he who gains a victory over himself is all powerful.
    Lao-Tzu
    Chinese philosopher (600 - 550)
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  • Henry David Thoreau Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.

    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Virginia Woolf Henry James seems most entirely in his element, doing that is to say what everything favors his doing, when it is a question of recollection. The mellow light which swims over the past, the beauty which suffuses even the commonest little figures of that
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Barack Obama Here at this site, Solyndra expects to make enough solar panels each year to generate 500 megawatts of electricity. And over the lifetime of this expanded facility, that could be like replacing as many as eight coal-fired power plants.
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Carl Sandburg Here is the difference between Dante, Milton, and me. They wrote about hell and never saw the place. I wrote about Chicago after looking the town over for years and years.
    Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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  • Bliss Carman Here's to the day when it is May
    And care as light as a feather,
    When your little shoes and my big boots
    Go tramping over the heather.
    A Toast
    Bliss Carman
    Canadian poet (1861 - 1929)
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  • Benjamin Netanyahu Hezbollah-controlled Lebanon now presides over the UN Security Council. This means, in effect, that a terror organization presides over the body entrusted with guaranteeing the world's security. You couldn't make this thing up.
    Benjamin Netanyahu
    Israeli politician (2009 - )
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  • Bob Bartlett Hills are unpleasant, so I like to get them over with as quickly as possible.
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche How people keep correcting us when we are young! There is always some bad habit or other they tell us we ought to get over. Yet most bad habits are tools to help us through life.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Aung San Suu Kyi Human beings the world over need freedom and security that they may be able to realize their full potential.
    Aung San Suu Kyi
    Burmese politician (1945 - )
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld Humility is often a false front we employ to gain power over others.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • John Adams I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth.
    John Adams
    President of the USA (2nd) (1735 - 1826)
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  • Alan Bennett I always feel over-appreciated but underestimated.
    Alan Bennett
    British playwright, screenwriter, actor and author (1934 - )
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  • Bryan Batt I always wanted to be an actor, but I always loved design, and growing up in New Orleans there was such great style, great architecture. I would decorate my little apartment in New York over and over again, because it only had a couple of rooms. And I did it for friends and family on the side just for fun.
    Bryan Batt
    American actor (1963 - )
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  • John F. Kennedy I am certain that after the dust of centuries has passed over our cities, we, too, will be remembered not for victories or defeats in battle or in politics, but for our contribution to the human spirit.
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • Annie Leibovitz I am impressed with what happens when someone stays in the same place and you took the same picture over and over and it would be different, every single frame.
    Annie Leibovitz
    American portrait photographer (1949 - )
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  • Colette I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long periods of time.
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  • Alexander Mackenzie I am sure that in Canada the people appreciate this principle, and the general intelligence which prevails over that country is such that I am sure there is no danger of a reactionary policy ever finding a response in the hearts of any considerable number of our people.
    Alexander Mackenzie
    Canadian politician
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  • Thomas Hardy I am the family face; flesh perishes, I live on, projecting trait and trace through time to times anon, and leaping from place to place over oblivion.
    Thomas Hardy
    British writer and poet (1840 - 1928)
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  • Albert Szent-Gyorgyi I am the son of a small and far-away nation and the other laureates have all come from different countries from all over the world and we all were equally received here with signs of sympathy.
    Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
    Hungarian physician and Nobel Prize winner in Medicine (1893 - 1986)
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