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  • Dick Gregory Civil Rights: What black folks are given in the U.S. on the installment plan, as in civil-rights bills. Not to be confused with human rights, which are the dignity, stature, humanity, respect, and freedom belonging to all people by right of their birth.
    Dick Gregory
    African-American comedian, civil rights activist, social critic, writer and entrepreneur (1932 - 2017)
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  • Arnold Toynbee Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor.
    Arnold Toynbee
    British economic historian and social reformer (1852 - 1883)
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  • Ann Landers Class is an aura of confidence that is being sure without being cocky. Class has nothing to do with money. Class never runs scared. It is self-discipline and self-knowledge. It's the sure footedness that comes with having proved you can meet life.
    Ann Landers
    American columnist (1918 - 2002)
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  • Bill Bryson Clearly, some time ago makers and consumers of American junk food passed jointly through some kind of sensibility barrier in the endless quest for new taste sensations. Now they are a little like those desperate junkies who have tried every known drug and are finally reduced to mainlining toilet bowl cleanser in an effort to get still higher.
    Bill Bryson
    American-British author (1951 - )
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  • Mark Twain Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • John Madden Coaches have to watch for what they don't want to see and listen to what they don't want to hear.
    John Madden
    American Football broadcaster and coach (1936 - )
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  • William Shakespeare Come what come may,
    time and the hour runs through the roughest day.
    Macbeth (1605)
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • John Milton Come, pensive nun, devout and pure, sober steadfast, and demure, all in a robe of darkest grain, flowing with majestic train.
    John Milton
    English poet, polemicist and man of letters (1608 - 1674)
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  • Finley Peter Dunne Comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable.
    Finley Peter Dunne
    American Journalist, Humorist (1867 - 1936)
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  • Ben Johnston Commerce is one of the daughters of Fortune, inconsistent and deceitful as her mother. she chooses her residence where she is least expected, and shifts her home when in appearance she seems firmly settled.
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  • Bob Ney Common sense solutions to lowering your gasoline bills can go far. Carpooling, taking fewer or shorter road trips, and ensuring that your tires are fully inflated can all help stop the pinch at the pump.
    Bob Ney
    American politician (1954 - )
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  • Adlai Stevenson II Communism is the death of the soul. It is the organization of total conformity - in short, of tyranny - and it is committed to making tyranny universal.
    Major Campaign Speeches of Adlai E. Stevenson (1952)
    Adlai Stevenson II
    American politician and governor (1900 - 1965)
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  • William James Compared to what we ought to be, we are only half awake. We are making use of only a small part of our physical and mental resources. Stating the thing broadly, the human individual thus lives far within his limits. He possesses power of various sorts which he habitually fails to use.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Alfred P. Sloan Competition is the final price determinant and competitive prices may result in profits which force you to accept a rate of return less than you hoped for, or for that matter to accept temporary losses.
    Alfred P. Sloan
    American businessman (1875 - 1966)
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  • Bob Mayer Completing any writing project, particularly a novel, is a daunting prospect. Many people become frozen by the prospect. Others keep waiting for the right time. Some wait for the spark of inspiration. Even experienced writers find it is easier to do anything other than actually write.
    Bob Mayer
    American author (1959 - )
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  • Samuel Johnson Composition is, for the most part, an effort of slow diligence and steady perseverance, to which the mind is dragged by necessity or resolution, and from which the attention is every moment starting to more delightful amusements.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Bill Russell Concentration and mental toughness are the margins of victory.
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  • Albert Einstein Concern for man and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Jack Nicklaus Confidence is the most important single factor in this game, and no matter how great your natural talent, there is only one way to obtain and sustain it: work.
    Jack Nicklaus
    American golf player (1940 - )
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  • Roger Staubach Confidence is the result of hours and days and weeks and years of constant work and dedication.
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