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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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  • Dr. Seuss Do not cry because it 's over. Smile because it happened.
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  • Vaclav Havel Even a purely moral act that has no hope of any immediate and visible political effect can gradually and indirectly, over time, gain in political significance.
    Vaclav Havel
    Czech statesman, writer and former dissident (1936 - 2011)
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  • Lawana Blackwell He had learned over the years that poor people did not feel so poor when allowed to give occasionally.
    Lawana Blackwell
    English writer
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  • Audie Murphy I Knew why I felt at home. The spirit of freedom was hovering over that play yard as it did all over France at that time. A country was free again.
    Audie Murphy
    American soldier, actor and songwriter (1925 - 1971)
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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow I venerate old age; and I love not the man who can look without emotion upon the sunset of life, when the dusk of evening begins to gather over the watery eye, and the shadows of twilight grow broader and deeper upon the understanding.
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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  • John Newton If the Lord be with us, we have no cause of fear. His eye is upon us, His arm over us, His ear open to our prayer-His grace sufficient, His promises unchangeable.
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  • Abraham Lincoln If you wish to win a man over to your ideas, first make him your friend.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Epictetus It is a sign of a dull nature to occupy oneself deeply in matters that concern the body; for instance, to be over much occupied about exercise, about eating and drinking, about easing oneself, about sexual intercourse.
    Epictetus
    Roman philosopher (50 - 130)
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  • Seneca It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Harold S. Geneen It's better to take over and build upon an existing business than to start a new one.
    Harold S. Geneen
    American Accountant, Industrialist, CEO, ITT (1910 - 1997)
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  • Arthur Laffer Let me just try to give you sort of the intuitive one here on the stimulus funds. If you have a two-person economy - let's imagine we have two farms, and that's the whole world, just two farms. If one of those farmers gets unemployment benefits, who do you think pays for him? Am I going way over your heads today?
    Arthur Laffer
    American economist and author (1940 - )
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  • Henry Louis Mencken Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Henry David Thoreau Most men would feel insulted if it were proposed to employ them in throwing stones over a wall, and then in throwing them back, merely that they might earn their wages. But many are no more worthily employed now.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • George Santayana Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape; a spirit with any honor is not willing to live except in its own way, and a spirit with any wisdom is not over-eager to live at all.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Nothing external to you has any power over you.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Thomas Jefferson Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • George Washington Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.
    George Washington
    First president of the US (1732 - 1799)
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  • Paul E. Little Some people think that God peers over the balcony of heaven trying to find anybody who is enjoying life. And when He spots a happy person, He yells, ''Now cut that out!'' That concept of God should make us shudder because it's blasphemous!
    Paul E. Little
    American Christian author
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  • Ben Carson The government is supposed to conform to our will. By taking the most important thing you have, your health and your health care, and turning that over to the government, you fundamentally shift the power, a huge chunk of it, from the people to the government. This is not the direction that we want the government to go in this nation.
    Ben Carson
    American politician, and author (1951 - )
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