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  • John Mason Brown I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with Blood.
    John Mason Brown
    American drama critic and author (1900 - 1969)
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  • Carl Schurz Ideals are like the stars: we never reach them, but like the mariners of the sea, we chart our course by them.
    Carl Schurz
    American statesman, journalist, and reformer (1829 - 1906)
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  • Arnold H. Glasgow Ideas not coupled with action never become bigger than the brain cells they occupied.
    Arnold H. Glasgow
    American editor and businessman (Born as Arnold Henry Glasow) (1905 - 1998)
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  • Herodotus If a man insisted always on being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable without knowing it.
    Herodotus
    Greek historian (484 - 425)
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  • Aeschylus If a man suffers ill, let it be without shame; for this is the only profit when we are dead. You will never say a good word about deeds that are evil and disgraceful.
    Aeschylus
    Greek dramatist (525 - 456)
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  • Dan Rather If all difficulties were known at the outset of a long journey, most of us would never start out at all.
    Dan Rather
     
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  • Ouida If all feeling for grace and beauty were not extinguished in the mass of mankind at the actual moment, such a method of locomotion as cycling could never have found acceptance; no man or woman with the slightest aesthetic sense could assume the ludicrous position necessary for it.
    Ouida
    English novelist, pseudonym of Maria Louise Ramé (1839 - 1908)
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  • George Bernard Shaw If all you are going to do in life are the things that are convenient and comfortable, the great things never get done.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Bhagavad Gita If any man thinks he slays, and if another thinks he is slain, neither knows the ways of truth. The Eternal in man cannot kill: the Eternal in man cannot die. He is never born, and he never dies. He is in Eternity, he is for evermore. Never-born and eternal, beyond times gone or to come, he does not die when the body dies.
    Source: Bhagavadgita Ch. 2, v. 19
    Bhagavad Gita
    Indian Hindu storybook
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  • Hannah More If faith produce no works, I see That faith is not a living tree. Thus faith and works together grow, No separate life they never can know. They're soul and body, hand and heart, What God hath joined, let no man part.
    Hannah More
    British Writer, Reformer, Philanthropist (1745 - 1833)
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  • Joseph Rudyard Kipling If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.
    Joseph Rudyard Kipling
    English writer (1865 - 1936)
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  • Calvin Klein If I allow journalists to describe a collection and they make mistakes, I'm upset, because the retractions are never noticed.
    Calvin Klein
    American fashion designer (1942 - )
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  • Enoch Powell If I cannot understand my friend's silence, I will never get to understand his words.
    Enoch Powell
    British politician and classicist (1912 - 1998)
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  • Lord George Byron If I could always read, I should never feel the want of company.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Billy Higgins If I couldn't do it, then I'd be defeated. I've got the tools to do it. I never did question my tools.
    Billy Higgins
    American jazz drummer (1936 - 2001)
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  • Arthur Godfrey If I go to a seminar and someone like you or someone like him is talking, I'm never part of the group that rushes him directly afterward. I always wait in the back corner with my head down until everyone is gone, and then I go up and do my thing.
    Arthur Godfrey
    American radio and television (1903 - 1983)
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  • Bobby Clarke If I hadn't learned to lay on a two-hander once in a while, I'd never have left Flin Flon.
    Bobby Clarke
     
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  • Anne Tyler If I waited till I felt like writing, I'd never write at all.
    Anne Tyler
    American novelist and short story writer (1941 - )
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  • Caitlyn Marie Jenner If I wasn't dyslexic, I probably wouldn't have won the Games. If I had been a better reader, then that would have come easily, sports would have come easily... and I never would have realized that the way you get ahead in life is hard work.
    Caitlyn Marie Jenner
    American television personality and decathlete (born Bruce Jenner)
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  • Betsey Johnson If it hadn't been for the rise of the working woman's wardrobe, I never would have found the time to sneak a kid in.
    Betsey Johnson
    American fashion designer (1942 - )
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