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  • Barbara W. Tuchman On being shown a relic said to be a bone of St. Elizabeth, he (Sigismund) turned it over and remarked that it could just as well be that of a dead cobbler.
    A Distant Mirror
    Barbara W. Tuchman
    American historian (1912 - 1989)
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  • Aldous Huxley On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Bruce Forsyth On stage, I think I'm 35. Working takes over my whole body and I become a younger man - that's why I won't stop.
    Bruce Forsyth
    British presenter, actor, comedian, singer, dancer and screenwriter (1928 - 2017)
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  • Brad Meltzer On the day my daughter was born, I started writing a book for her. The plan was that, over the course of her life, I'd fill it with advice on how to be a strong woman. But along the way, I got caught up in the stories of Amelia Earhart, Sally Ride, and so many others. So how do you pick the best heroes for your kids?
    Brad Meltzer
    American political thriller novelist and non-fiction writer (1970 - )
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  • Stewart Brand Once a new technology rolls over you, if you're not part of the steamroller, you're part of the road.
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  • Virginia Woolf Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and faculties of the soul. She becomes all outer show and inward emptiness; dull, callous, and indifferent.
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Joan Didion Once I get over maybe a hundred pages, I won't go back to page one, but I might go back to page fifty-five, or twenty, even. But then every once in a while I feel the need to go to page one again and start rewriting.
    (2006)
    Joan Didion
    American Essayist (1934 - 2021)
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  • B. B. King Once in a while, the thumb that fits over the neck of the guitar kinda bothers me a little bit, but not that much yet. I figure in time I won't do much because of my age.
    B. B. King
    American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and record producer (1925 - 2015)
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  • Avi Arad Once we got over the origin story, we could really delve deeper into their lives and characters and angst. So this movie actually has more heart, more humor.
    Avi Arad
    Israeli-American businessman (1948 - )
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  • Norman Vincent Peale Once we roared like lions for liberty; now we bleat like sheep for security! The solution for America's problem is not in terms of big government, but it is in big men over whom nobody stands in control but God.
    Norman Vincent Peale
    American minister and author (1898 - 1993)
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  • Bram Stoker One and all we felt that the holy calm that lay like sunshine over the wasted face and form was only an earthly token and symbol of the calm that was to reign for ever.
    Dracula (1897) Dr. Seward of Lucy Westenra
    Bram Stoker
    Irish author (1847 - 1912)
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  • Gloria Steinem One day an army of gray-haired women may quietly take over the Earth!
    Passion, Politics, and Everyday Activism (2017) 893
    Gloria Steinem
    American feminist writer (1934 - )
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  • Charlotte Brontë One does not jump, and spring, and shout hurrah! at hearing one has got a fortune, one begins to consider responsibilities, and to ponder business; on a base of steady satisfaction rise certain grave cares, and we contain ourselves, and brood over our bliss with a solemn brow.
    Charlotte Brontë
    British Novelist (1816 - 1855)
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  • Kofi Annan One has to learn from history. Quite frankly, it is almost impossible to have a sense of vision without a sense of history. If history is learned, then it doesn't have to repeat itself over generations.
    Kofi Annan
    Ghanaian diplomat (1938 - 2018)
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  • John Wanamaker One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.
    John Wanamaker
    American merchant and religious (1838 - 1922)
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg One might call habit a moral friction: something that prevents the mind from gliding over things but connects it with them and makes it hard for it to free itself from them.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Bobbi Kristina Brown One moment I can be happy and laughing, but then it comes over me. It's my mom.
    Bobbi Kristina Brown
    American reality television personality, media personality, and singer (1993 - 2015)
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  • Carla Hall One of my early childhood memories was my grandmother always having a bowl of Nestle chocolate bars at her house. My sister and I would argue over who could eat the chocolate bars. Looking back, I don't know why we just didn't share. We could have split them.
    Carla Hall
    American chef and television personality (1964 - )
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  • Kin Hubbard One of the commonest mistakes is thinking your worries are over when your children get married.
    Kin Hubbard
    American cartoonist, humorist, and journalist (1868 - 1930)
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  • Billy Collins One of the disadvantages of poetry over popular music is that if you write a pop song, it naturally gets into people's heads as they listen in the car. You don't have to memorize a Paul Simon song; it's just in your head, and you can sing along. With a poem, you have to will yourself to memorize it.
    Billy Collins
    American poet (1941 - )
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