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  • Denis Waitley All of the top achievers I know are life-long learners... Looking for new skills, insights, and ideas. If they're not learning, they're not growing... not moving toward excellence.
    Denis Waitley
    American motivational speaker, writer and consultant (1933 - )
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  • Vladimir Ilyich Lenin All our lives we fought against exalting the individual, against the elevation of the single person, and long ago we were over and done with the business of a hero, and here it comes up again: the glorification of one personality. This is not good at all. I am just like everybody else.
    Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
    Russian revolutionary leader (1870 - 1924)
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  • Bell Hooks All over the world, young males and females, schooled in the art of patriarchal thinking, are building an identity on a foundation that sees the will to do violence as the essential way to assert being.
    Bell Hooks
    American author, professor, feminist (born G.J.Watkins) (1952 - 2021)
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  • George Orwell All the papers that matter live off their advertisements, and the advertisers exercise an indirect censorship over news.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • William E. Gladstone All the world over, I will back the masses against the classes.
    William E. Gladstone
    British Liberal Prime Minister, Statesman (1809 - 1888)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe All truly wise thoughts have been thoughts already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, till they take root in our personal experience.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Baltasar Gracian All victories breed hate, and that over your superior is foolish or fatal.
    Baltasar Gracian
    Spanish Jesuit and philosopher (1601 - 1658)
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  • E. B. White All we need is a meteorologist who has once been soaked to the skin without ill effect. No one can write knowingly of the weather who walks bent over on wet days.
    E. B. White
    American writer (1899 - 1985)
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  • Bernard M. Baruch Although the shooting war is over, we are in the midst of a cold war which is getting warmer.
    Speech before the Senates Special Committee Investigating the National Defense Program
    Bernard M. Baruch
    American investor, philanthropist, statesman, and political consultant (1870 - 1965)
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  • Arnold Toynbee America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a chair.
    Arnold Toynbee
    British economic historian and social reformer (1852 - 1883)
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  • David Herbert Lawrence America is neither free nor brave, but a land of tight, iron-clanking little wills, everybody trying to put it over everybody else, and a land of men absolutely devoid of the real courage of trust, trust in life's sacred spontaneity. They can't trust life until they can control it.
    David Herbert Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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  • Anthony Walton America's greatest strength, and its greatest weakness, is our belief in second chances, our belief that we can always start over, that things can be made better.
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  • Bob Schieffer American politics used to be an amateur sport. But somewhere along the way, we handed over to professionals all the things people used to do for free.
    Bob Schieffer
    American television journalist (1937 - )
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  • Aldous Huxley Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Max Planck An important scientific innovation rarely makes its way by gradually winning over and converting its opponents. What does happen is that its opponents gradually die out, and that the growing generation is familiarized with the ideas from the beginning.
    Max Planck
    German physicist (1858 - 1947)
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  • Washington Irving An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather.
    Washington Irving
    American writer (1783 - 1859)
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  • Bob Schieffer And after about two years, I realized that creative writing was not going to help you ace those biological tests. So I switched over to journalism. I didn't graduate with honors, but I did graduate on time and with some doing.
    Bob Schieffer
    American television journalist (1937 - )
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  • Bob Knight And I would be the first to admit that probably, in a lot of press conferences over the time that I have been in coaching, indulging my own sense of humor at press conferences has not been greatly to my benefit.
    Bob Knight
    American basketball coach (1940 - )
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  • Auberon Herbert And what sort of philosophical doctrine is thi - that numbers confer unlimited rights, that they take from some persons all rights over themselves, and vest these rights in others.
    Auberon Herbert
    British writer, theorist, philosopher
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  • Bertolt Brecht And when she was finished they laid her in earth
    Flowers growing, butterflies juggling over her...
    She, so light, barely pressed the earth down
    How much pain it took to make her as light as that!
    Poems, 1913-1956 To my mother [Meiner Mutter] (May 1920), trans. Jo
    Bertolt Brecht
    German - Austrian writer (1898 - 1956)
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