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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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  • A. E. Housman A neck God made for other use Than strangling in a string.
    A. E. Housman
    British poet (1859 - 1936)
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  • Luis Bunuel A paranoiac, like a poet, is born, not made.
    Luis Bunuel
    Spanish director (1900 - 1983)
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  • Edward Abbey A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
    Edward Abbey
    American author and essayist (1927 - 1989)
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  • Joan Didion A pool is, for many of us in the West, a symbol not of affluence but of order, of control over the uncontrollable. A pool is water, made available and useful, and is, as such, infinitely soothing to the western eye.
    Joan Didion
    American Essayist (1934 - 2021)
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  • Robert W. Service A promise made is a debt unpaid.
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  • St. Francis de Sales A quarrel between friends, when made up, adds a new tie to friendship.
    St. Francis de Sales
    Bishop of Geneva and is honored as a saint in the Catholic Church (1567 - 1622)
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  • Bill Owens A renewed commitment to the freedom and opportunity of our people is the touchstone of our time. In this new century, where tests are many and challenges change with the shifting of the wind, we must hold fast to the principles that have made our nation the envy of the world.
    Bill Owens
    American photographer (1938 - )
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  • Plutarch A Roman divorced from his wife, being highly blamed by his friends, who demanded, ''Was she not chaste? Was she not fair? Was she not fruitful?'' holding out his shoe, asked them whether it was not new and well made. ''Yet,'' added he, ''none of you can tell where it pinches me.
    Plutarch
    Greek biographer and essayist (46 - 120)
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  • Curtis Carlson A salesman must also have flexible goals. You may say, ''I want to sell 10 accounts this week,'' and you sell five. You're ready to die. But, you tell yourself, ''Five isn't too bad. You know, next week maybe I'll sell 10.
    Curtis Carlson
    American businessman and technologist (1945 - )
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  • Al Goldstein A self made man is a rarity and hated by the parasites that floated to fame thought their parents, relatives and contacts.
    Al Goldstein
    American pornographer (1936 - 2013)
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  • William Cowper A self-made man? Yes, and one who worships his creator.
    William Cowper
    English poet (1731 - 1800)
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  • Simone Weil A self-respecting nation is ready for anything, including war, except for a renunciation of its option to make war.
    Simone Weil
    French philosopher (1909 - 1943)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken A society made up of individuals who were all capable of original thought would probably be unendurable.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Christopher Lasch A society that has made ''nostalgia'' a marketable commodity on the cultural exchange quickly repudiates the suggestion that life in the past was in any important way better than life today.
    Christopher Lasch
    American historian (1932 - 1994)
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  • Anne Sullivan Macy A strenuous effort must be made to train young people to think for themselves and take independent charge of their lives.
    Anne Sullivan Macy
    American teacher (1866 - 1936)
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  • Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle A well cultivated mind is made up of all the minds of preceding ages; it is only the one single mind educated by all previous time.
    Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle
    French author (1657 - 1757)
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  • Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle A well-cultivated mind is, so to speak, made up of all the minds of preceding ages; it is only one single mind which has been educated during all this time.
    Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle
    French author (1657 - 1757)
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  • Barbara Cartland A woman should say: "Have I made him happy? Is he satisfied? Does he love me more than he loved me before? Is he likely to go to bed with another woman?" If he does, then it's the wife's fault because she is not trying to make him happy.
    Barbara Cartland
    English author of romance novels (1901 - 2000)
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  • Barbara Cartland A woman should say: 'Have I made him happy? Is he satisfied? Does he love me more than he loved me before? Is he likely to go to bed with another woman?' If he does, then it's the wife's fault because she is not trying to make him happy.
    Barbara Cartland
    English author of romance novels (1901 - 2000)
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