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  • Carl Sandburg Back of every mistaken venture and defeat is the laughter of wisdom, if you listen.
    Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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  • Benjamin Franklin Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.
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    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Benjamin Franklin Be studious in your profession, and you will be learned. Be industrious and frugal, and you will be rich. Be sober and temperate, and you will be healthy. Be in general virtuous, and you will be happy. At least you will, by such conduct, stand the best chance for such consequences.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Thomas L. Masson Be yourself is about the worst advice you can give to some people.
    Thomas L. Masson
    American anthropologist, editor and author (1866 - 1934)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche Because men really respect only that which was founded of old and has developed slowly, he who wants to live on after his death must take care not only of his posterity but even more of his past.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Gloria Steinem Being misunderstood by people whose opinions you value is absolutely the most painful.
    Gloria Steinem
    American feminist writer (1934 - )
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  • James Baldwin But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Confucius Chose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.
    Confucius
    Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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  • Henry David Thoreau City life is millions of people being lonesome together.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Karl Marx Civil servants and priests, soldiers and ballet-dancers, schoolmasters and police constables, Greek museums and Gothic steeples, civil list and services list - the common seed within which all these fabulous beings slumber in embryo is taxation.
    Karl Marx
    German economist and state philosopher (1818 - 1883)
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  • Cyril Connolly Civilization is maintained by a very few people in a small number of places and we need only some bombs and a few prisons to blot it out altogether.
    Cyril Connolly
    British criticus (1903 - 1974)
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  • Henri-Frédéric Amiel Common sense is the measure of the possible; it is composed of experience and prevision; it is calculation applied to life.
    Henri-Frédéric Amiel
    Swiss philosopher and poet (1821 - 1881)
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  • Seneca Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insinuating and insidious something that elicits secrets just like love or liquor.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Napoleon Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.
    Napoleon
    French Emperor (1769 - 1821)
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  • Charles Caleb Colton Deliberate with caution, but act with decision; and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Dylan Thomas Do not go gentle into the good night. Old age should burn and rage at close of day.
    Dylan Thomas
    English poet (1914 - 1953)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Bruce Oldfield Don't be limited by the expectations of others. You can always be better and do more.
    Bruce Oldfield
    British fashion designer (1950 - )
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  • Albert Camus Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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