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  • Carrie Fisher In the Fifties, my parents were known as 'America's sweethearts'. Their pictures graced the covers of all the newspapers. They were the Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston of their day.
    Carrie Fisher
    American actress, writer and comedienne (1956 - 2016)
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  • Alexander Dubcek In the first day of the Soviet Army's arrival, I and the other comrades were isolated and then found ourselves here, not knowing anything... I can only conjecture what could have happened.
    Alexander Dubcek
    Czechoslovak and Slovak politician (1921 - 1992)
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  • Marcus Aurelius In the morning, when you are sluggish about getting up, let this thought be present: 'I am rising to a man's work.'
    Marcus Aurelius
    Roman emperor (121 - 180)
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  • Aubrey Beardsley In the present age, alas! our pens are ravished by unlettered authors and unmannered critics, that make a havoc rather than a building, a wilderness rather than a garden. But, a lack! what boots it to drop tears upon the preterit?
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  • Raoul Vaneigem In the twentieth century, death terrifies men less than the absence of real life. All these dead, mechanized, specialized actions, stealing a little bit of life a thousand times a day until the mind and body are exhausted, until that death which is not the
    Raoul Vaneigem
    Belgian philosopher (1934 - )
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  • Brett Ratner In this day and age, you need a lot of patience if you are in the movie business.
    Brett Ratner
    American director and producer (1969 - )
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  • Alice Munro In twenty years I've never had a day when I didn't have to think about someone else's needs. And this means the writing has to be fitted around it.
    Alice Munro
    Canadian short story writer (1931 - )
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  • Nikita Ivanovich Panin In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the years are short and day's long.
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  • Clarence Day Information's pretty thin stuff unless mixed with experience.
    Clarence Day
    American author and cartoonist (1874 - 1935)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can present every moment with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation; but of the adopted talent of another you have only an extemporaneous half possession.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Charles Baudelaire Inspiration comes of working every day.
    Charles Baudelaire
    French poet (1821 - 1867)
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  • Bernie S. Siegel Inspiration is the greatest gift because it opens your life to many new possibilities. Each day becomes more meaningful, and your life is enhanced when your actions are guided by what inspires you.
    Bernie S. Siegel
    American writer and pediatric surgeon (1932 - )
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  • Buffy Sainte-Marie Instead of kids just hearing about beads and baskets and fringe, and about what 'was' and 'were,' we present Native American culture as a living contemporary culture.
    Buffy Sainte-Marie
    Indigenous Canadian-American singer-songwriter and musician (1941 - )
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  • Bubba Watson Instead of playing with army men or whatever, I played golf, like for hours every day.
    Bubba Watson
    American professional golfer (1978 - )
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  • Abraham Lincoln Intelligence, patriotism, Christianity, and a firm reliance on Him, who has never yet forsaken this favored land, are still competent to adjust, in the best way, all our present difficulty.
    First Inaugural Address (1861)
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Henry Ward Beecher Interest works night and day in fair weather and in foul. It gnaws at a man's substance with invisible teeth.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Mao Tse-Tung Investigation may be likened to the long months of pregnancy, and solving a problem to the day of birth. To investigate a problem is, indeed, to solve it.
    Mao Tse-Tung
    Chinese politician (1893 - 1976)
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  • Maximilien Robespierre Is it to be thought unreasonable that the people, in atonement for wrongs of a century, demand the vengeance of a single day?
    Maximilien Robespierre
    French lawyer and statesman (1758 - 1794)
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  • Angela Merkel It certainly is dangerous that there are only a few clubs left in Europe that can afford to pay millions. At the end of the day however, the spectators decide the rates of pay - by watching the games and consuming the goods and services advertised on sports TV programmes.
    Angela Merkel
    German politician and chancellor (1954 - )
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  • Benjamin Disraeli It destroys one's nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.
    The works of Disraeli the younger
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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