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  • Ban Ki-moon My U.N. five-point plan focuses on preventing proliferation, strengthening the legal regime, and ensuring nuclear safety and security - an effort that was given good momentum by the Nuclear Security Summit held in Seoul earlier this year. The world is over-armed, and peace is underfunded.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Al Sharpton National Action Network, the group I founded, has affiliates or chapters in over 40 cities around the country.
    Al Sharpton
    American civil rights activist, Baptist minister and talk show host (1954 - )
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  • Dwight D. Eisenhower Neither a wise nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.
    Dwight D. Eisenhower
    American president (1890 - 1969)
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  • W. C. Fields Never cry over spilt milk, because it may have been poisoned.
    W. C. Fields
    American Actor (1880 - 1946)
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  • B. C. Forbes No man can fight his way to the top and stay at the top without exercising the fullest measure of grit, courage, determination, resolution. Every man who gets anywhere does so because he has first firmly resolved to progress in the world and then has enough stick-to-it-tiveness to transform his resolution into reality. Without resolution, no man can win any worthwhile place among his fellow men.
    B. C. Forbes
    American Publisher (1880 - 1954)
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  • Napoleon Hill No man ever achieved worth-while success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure.
    Napoleon Hill
    American self-help author (1883 - 1970)
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  • Anton Chekhov No matter how corrupt and unjust a convict may be, he loves fairness more than anything else. If the people placed over him are unfair, from year to year he lapses into an embittered state characterized by an extreme lack of faith.
    Anton Chekhov
    Russian playwright and short story writer
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  • Kofi Annan No nation can make itself secure by seeking supremacy over all others. We all share responsibility for each other's security, and only by working to make each other secure can we hope to achieve lasting security for ourselves.
    (2006)
    Kofi Annan
    Ghanaian diplomat (1938 - 2018)
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  • Claudius No one is free who does not lord over himself.
    Claudius
    Roman emperor (10 - 54)
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  • Barry Ritholtz No one knows what the top-performing asset class will be next year. Lacking this prescience, your next-best solution is to own all of the classes and rebalance regularly.
    Barry Ritholtz
    American author and newspaper columnist
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  • Cyril Connolly No one over thirty-five is worth meeting who has not something to teach us, something more than we could learn for ourselves, from a book.
    Cyril Connolly
    British criticus (1903 - 1974)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson No orator can top the one who can give good nicknames.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Alfred E. Smith No sane local official who has hung up an empty stocking over the municipal fireplace, is going to shoot Santa Claus just before a hard Christmas.
    Alfred E. Smith
    American politician (1873 - 1944)
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  • Samuel Johnson No two men can be half an hour together but one shall acquire an evident superiority over the other.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Alex Haley Nobody can do for little children what grandparents do. Grandparents sort of sprinkle stardust over the lives of little children.
    Alex Haley
    American writer (1921 - 1992)
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  • Harriet Beecher Stowe Nobody had ever instructed him that a slave-ship, with a procession of expectant sharks in its wake, is a missionary institution, by which closely-packed heathen are brought over to enjoy the light of the Gospel.
    Harriet Beecher Stowe
    American Novelist (1811 - 1896)
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  • Archibald Alexander None can less afford to delay than the aged sinner. Now is the time. Now or never. You have, as it were, one foot already in the grave. Your opportunities will soon be over. Strive, then, I entreat you, to enter in at the strait gate.
    Archibald Alexander
    American Presbyterian theologian and professor (1772 - 1851)
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  • Bill James None of us are claiming that the statistical analysts understand the game of football as well as the football coaches do, or that our analysis should take precedence over the informed opinions of experts. I'm not saying that at all.
    Bill James
    American baseball writer, historian, and statistician (1949 - )
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  • Thomas Carlyle Not our logical faculty, but our imaginative one is king over us. I might say, priest and prophet to lead us to heaven-ward, or magician and wizard to lead us hellward.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Mahatma Gandhi Not to have control over the senses is like sailing in a rudderless ship, bound to break to pieces on coming in contact with the very first rock.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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