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  • Baldwin Spencer 2005 opens with the promise of a number of substantial direct private investments that can swiftly transform the economy and set all sectors on a pronounced upward curve.
    Baldwin Spencer
    Antigua and Barbuda politican and labour leader (1948 - )
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  • Henry Ford A bore is a person who opens his mouth and puts his feats in it.
    Henry Ford
    American industrialist (1863 - 1947)
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  • George Bernard Shaw A cigarette is a pinch of tobacco rolled in paper with fire at one end and a fool at the other.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Oscar Wilde A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can one want?
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Douglas Adams A common mistake people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
    Douglas Adams
    British science-fiction writer (1952 - 2001)
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  • Mark Twain A crime persevered in a thousand centuries ceases to be a crime, and becomes a virtue. This is the law of custom, and custom supersedes all other forms of law.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Winston Churchill A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Robert A. Heinlein A generation which ignores history has no past and no future.
    Robert A. Heinlein
    American science fiction writer (1907 - 1988)
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  • Freeman Dyson A good cause can become bad if we fight for it with means that are indiscriminately murderous. A bad cause can become good if enough people fight for it in a spirit of comradeship and self-sacrifice. In the end it is how you fight, as much as why you fight, that makes your cause good or bad.
    Freeman Dyson
    American arts, writer (1923 - 2020)
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  • Meister Eckhart A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don't know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox's or bear's, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there.
    Meister Eckhart
    German mystic (1260 - 1328)
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  • Victor Hugo A saint addicted to excessive self-abnegation is a dangerous associate; he may infect you with poverty, and a stiffening of those joints which are needed for advancement - in a word, with more renunciation than you care for - and so you flee the contagion.
    Victor Hugo
    French writer (1802 - 1885)
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  • George Bernard Shaw A socialist is somebody who doesn't have anything, and is ready to divide it up equally among everybody.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Benjamin Disraeli A sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity, and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and to glorify himself.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Basil of Caesarea A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.
    Basil of Caesarea
    Greek bishop of Caesarea Mazaca in Cappadocia (330 - 379)
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  • Lord George Byron A woman should never be seen eating or drinking, unless it be lobster salad and Champagne, the only true feminine and becoming viands.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Thomas Henry Huxley A world of facts lies outside and beyond the world of words.
    Thomas Henry Huxley
    English biologist (1825 - 1895)
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones, as wind extinguishes candles and fans a fire.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Norman Vincent Peale Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.
    Norman Vincent Peale
    American minister and author (1898 - 1993)
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  • William Shakespeare Affliction is enamoured of thy parts, and thou art wedded to calamity.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Voltaire All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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