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  • Dag Hammarskjöld When the morning's freshness has been replaced by the weariness of midday, when the leg muscles give under the strain, the climb seems endless, and suddenly nothing will go quite as you wish-it is then that you must not hesitate.
    Dag Hammarskjöld
    Swedish diplomat (1905 - 1961)
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  • Samuel Butler When the righteous man truth away from his righteousness that he hath committed and doeth that which is neither quite lawful nor quite right, he will generally be found to have gained in amiability what he has lost in holiness.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Blaise Pascal When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Bruce Dickinson When you cut human beings down to size, we're really quite simple creatures; food, shelter, warmth, light, heat and you build it up from there really until you finally go Gucci shoes or whatever it is or whatever your consumer desires are. All those desires are ultimately, they're about gratification.
    Bruce Dickinson
    English singer and songwriter (1958 - )
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  • Leo Burnett When you reach for the stars, you may not quite get one, but you won't come up with a handful of mud either.
    Leo Burnett
    American advertising executive (1891 - 1971)
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  • Cass Elliot When you're on stage, you gotta do it. People pay to see you, and they deserve to be entertained, and you should go out there and really give it your best shot. And that's quite a challenge.
    Cass Elliot
    American singer and actress (1941 - 1974)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite without any wish to act.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Anne McCaffrey Writing has been so much a part of my life that I'm really quite annoyed that I can't do as much as I used to.
    Anne McCaffrey
    American-Irish writer (1926 - 2011)
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  • Bruce Springsteen Yeah, my son likes a lot of guitar bands. He gave me something the other day which was really good. He'll burn a CD for me full of things that he has, so he's a pretty good call if I want to check some of that stuff out... The other two aren't quite into that yet.
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Bruce Springsteen You can go from doing something quite silly to something dead serious in the blink of an eye, and if you're making those connections with your audience then they're going to go right along with it.
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Harry Browne You don't need an explanation for everything, Recognize that there are such things as miracles - events for which there are no ready explanations. Later knowledge may explain those events quite easily.
    Harry Browne
    American financial adviser and writer (1933 - 2006)
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  • Barry Mann You have certain writing tools but generally creating something from nothing makes one quite mad and Cynthia and I are quite mad you know.
    Barry Mann
    American songwriter and musician (1939 - )
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  • W. H. Auden You know there are no secrets in America. It's quite different in England, where people think of a secret as a shared relation between two people.
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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  • Burgess Owens You learn after losing quite a bit, year after year, that you have to continue to work hard, stay tough, and endure to the end before it's going to work out.
    Burgess Owens
    American football player (1951 - )
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  • Daisy Ashford You look rather rash my dear your colors don't quite match your face.
    Daisy Ashford
    English writer (1881 - 1972)
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  • William Wordsworth … with an eye made by quite by power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, We see into the life of things.
    William Wordsworth
    English poet (1770 - 1850)
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  • Oscar Wilde All art is quite useless.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Thomas Alva Edison His genius he was quite content in one brief sentence to define; Of inspiration one percent, of perspiration, ninety nine.
    Thomas Alva Edison
    American inventor and founder of General Electric (1847 - 1931)
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  • Ronald Reagan I recently learned something quite interesting about video games. Many young people have developed incredible hand, eye, and brain coordination in playing these games. The air force believes these kids will be our outstanding pilots should they fly our jets.
    Ronald Reagan
    American politician and actor (1911 - 2004)
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