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  • Fred A. Allen A molehill man is a pseudo-busy executive who comes to work at 9 am and finds a molehill on his desk. He has until 5 p.m. to make this molehill into a mountain. An accomplished molehill man will often have his mountain finished before lunch.
    Fred A. Allen
    American comic (1894 - 1956)
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  • Jawaharlal Nehru A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new, when an age ends, and when the soul of a nation, long suppressed, finds utterance.
    inaugurele rede 14-8-1947
    Jawaharlal Nehru
    Indian nationalist and statesman (1889 - 1964)
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  • Fisher Ames A monarchy is a merchantman which sails well, but will sometimes strike on a rock, and go to the bottom; a republic is a raft which will never sink, but then your feet are always in the water.
    Fisher Ames
    American politician (1758 - 1808)
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  • William Cowper A moral, sensible, and wellbred man, I will not affront me, and no other can.
    William Cowper
    English poet (1731 - 1800)
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  • Sri Swami Sivananda A mountain is composed of tiny grains of earth. The ocean is made up of tiny drops of water. Even so, life is but an endless series of little details, actions, speeches, and thoughts. And the consequences whether good or bad of even the least of them are far-reaching.
    Sri Swami Sivananda
    Indian Hindu spiritual teacher (1887 - 1963)
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  • Cab Calloway A movie and a stage show are two entirely different things. A picture, you can do anything you want. Change it, cut out a scene, put in a scene, take a scene out. They don't do that on stage.
    Cab Calloway
    American jazz singer, dancer, bandleader and actor (1907 - 1994)
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  • William Faulkner A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once.
    William Faulkner
    American writer (1897 - 1962)
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  • William Wordsworth A multitude of causes unknown to former times are now acting with a combined force to blunt the discriminating powers of the mind, and unfitting it for all voluntary exertion to reduce it to a state of almost savage torpor.
    William Wordsworth
    English poet (1770 - 1850)
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  • Henry David Thoreau A name pronounced is the recognition of the individual to whom it belongs. He who can pronounce my name aright, he can call me, and is entitled to my love and service.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Sydney Smith A nation grown free in a single day is a child born with the limbs and the vigor of a man, who would take a drawn sword for his rattle, and set the house in a blaze that he might chuckle over the splendor.
    Sydney Smith
    English writer and cleric (1856 - 1934)
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  • Abdelaziz Bouteflika A nation must be embraced, rehabilitated and expressed as a tangible sign of human creativity and as an integral element of mankind's heritage.
    Abdelaziz Bouteflika
    Algerian politician (1937 - )
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes A new and valid idea is worth more than a regiment and fewer men can furnish the former than command the latter.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • William James A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Max Planck A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.
    Max Planck
    German physicist (1858 - 1947)
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  • Malcolm X A new world order is in the making, and it is up to us to prepare ourselves that we may take our rightful place in it.
    Malcolm X
    American activist (1925 - 1965)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Byron Howard A nice thing about being at Disney is that these movies can develop into a presence in theme parks and become something real, or maybe get a sequel or tell other stories.
    Byron Howard
    American film director and producer (1968 - )
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  • William Hazlitt A nickname is the heaviest stone that the devil can throw at a man.
    Round table
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Henry Ward Beecher A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Barry Ritholtz A number of bloggers in economics and the financial sector have risen to prominence through the sheer strength of their work. Note it was not their family connections nor ties to Ivy League schools or elite banks, but rather the strength of their research, analysis and writing.
    Barry Ritholtz
    American author and newspaper columnist
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