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  • Henry David Thoreau It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart; it being much more sensitive.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Bernie Sanders It makes a lot more sense for us to be investing in jobs and education rather than jails and incarceration.
    Bernie Sanders
    American politician (1941 - )
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  • A. N. Wilson It seems astonishing to be paid for indulging in pure pleasure. For me to go to Coburg is rather as if a trainspotter was sent for a few weeks to Swindon or a chocoholic asked on holiday by Green and Black.
    A. N. Wilson
    English writer and columnist (1950 - )
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  • Frederick the Great It seems to me that man is made to act rather than to know: the principles of things escape our most persevering researches.
    Frederick the Great
    King of Prussia (1740-1786) (1712 - 1786)
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  • Jim Rohn It's easy to let life deteriorate into making a living instead of making a life. It's not the hours you put in, but what you out into the hours that count. Learn to express rather than impress. Expressing evokes a ''me too'' attitude while impressing evokes a ''so what'' attitude.
    Jim Rohn
    American entrepreneur, author and motivational speaker (1930 - 2009)
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  • Bob Graham It's fundamentally unfair to have so much of the tax relief go to so few. And it is a 10-year tax plan rather than one, as mine, focused on the next two years, which in my opinion is the critical time to jumpstart the economy.
    Bob Graham
    American politician and author (1936 - )
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  • Brendan Behan It's not that the Irish are cynical. It's rather that they have a wonderful lack of respect for everything and everybody.
    Brendan Behan: interviews and recollections (1982)
    Brendan Behan
    Irish poet, short story writer, novelist and playwright (1923 - 1964)
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  • Anthony Robbins It's not what's happening to you now or what has happened in your past that determines who you become. Rather, it's your decisions about what to focus on, what things mean to you, and what you're going to do about them that will determine your ultimate destiny.
    Anthony Robbins
    American author, entrepreneur, philanthropist and life coach (1960 - )
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  • Birch Bayh It's unfortunate. Title IX is rather simple: don't discriminate on the basis of sex.
    Birch Bayh
    American politician (1928 - 2019)
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  • Rollo May Joy, rather than happiness, is the goal of life, for joy is the emotion which accompanies our fulfilling our natures as human beings. It is based on the experience of one's identity as a being of worth and dignity.
    Rollo May
    American psychologist
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  • Anthony J. D'Angelo Know people for who they are rather than for what they are.
    Anthony J. D'Angelo
    American writer
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Adlai Stevenson II Law is not a profession at all, but rather a business service station and repair shop.
    Adlai Stevenson II
    American politician and governor (1900 - 1965)
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  • Tallulah Bankhead Let's not quibble! I'm the foe of moderation, the champion of excess. If I may lift a line from a die-hard whose identity is lost in the shuffle, ''I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.''
    Tallulah Bankhead
    American actress (1902 - 1968)
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  • Imelda Marcos Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.
    Imelda Marcos
    Filipino politician and first lady (1929 - )
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  • John Irving Like many successful people he made good use of disappointments - responding to them with energy, with near-frenzied activity, rather than needing to recover from them.
    Trying to Save Piggy Sneed (1996) 248
    John Irving
    American-Canadian novelist and screenwriter (1942 - )
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  • Wayne Dyer Live one day at a time emphasizing ethics rather than rules.
    Wayne Dyer
    American philosopher, self-help author, and a motivational speaker. (1940 - 2015)
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  • B. H. Liddell Hart Loss of hope rather than loss of life is what decides the issues of war. But helplessness induces hopelessness.
    B. H. Liddell Hart
    British soldier and military historian (1895 - 1970)
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  • Hannah Arendt Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces.
    Hannah Arendt
    German-born American political theorist (1906 - 1975)
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  • Octavio Paz Man does not speak because he thinks; he thinks because he speaks. Or rather, speaking is no different than thinking: to speak is to think.
    Octavio Paz
    Mexican Poet, Essayist (1914 - 1998)
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