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  • Vincent Van Gogh What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?
    Vincent Van Gogh
    Dutch painter (1853 - 1890)
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  • Sydney Smith What would life be without arithmetic, but a scene of horrors?
    Sydney Smith
    English writer and cleric (1856 - 1934)
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  • Bill Gates What's amazing is, if young people understood how doing well in school makes the rest of their life so much interesting, they would be more motivated. It's so far away in time that they can't appreciate what it means for their whole life.
    Bill Gates
    American business magnate, investor, author and philanthropist (1955 - )
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  • Alexander Pope What's fame? a fancy'd life in other's breath. A thing beyond us, even before our death.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Julia Roberts What's nice about my dating life is that I don't have to leave my house. All I have to do is read the paper: I'm marrying Richard Gere, dating Daniel Day-Lewis, parading around with John F. Kennedy, Jr., and even Robert De Niro was in there for a day.
    Julia Roberts
    American actress (1967 - )
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  • Salman Rushdie What's real and what's true aren't necessarily the same.
    Midnight's Children
    Salman Rushdie
    Engels writer (1947 - )
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  • Satchel Paige What's scary in life is not what people know (or don't know), but what they know that ain't so.
    Satchel Paige
    African-American baseball player (1906 - 1982)
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  • Chief Seattle Whatever befalls the earth befalls the son of the earth. Man did not weave the web of life; he is merely a strand of it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.
    Chief Seattle
    Suquamish Tribe chief (1786 - 1866)
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  • Bernard M. Baruch Whatever failures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies I have witnessed in private and public life have been the consequence of action without thought.
    Bernard M. Baruch
    American investor, philanthropist, statesman, and political consultant (1870 - 1965)
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  • Oprah Winfrey Whatever has happened to you in your past has no power over this present moment, because life is now.
    Oprah Winfrey
    American TV host, Actress (1954 - )
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  • Luigi Pirandello Whatever is a reality today, whatever you touch and believe in and that seems real for you today, is going to be - like the reality of yesterday - an illusion tomorrow.
    Luigi Pirandello
    Italian poet, playwright and Nobel laureate in literature (1934) (1867 - 1936)
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  • Amelia E. Barr Whatever the scientists may say, if we take the supernatural out of life, we leave only the unnatural.
    Amelia E. Barr
    British novelist and teacher (1831 - 1919)
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  • Henry Miller Whatever there be of progress in life comes not through adaptation but through daring, through obeying the blind urge.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • Marilyn French Whatever they may be in public life, whatever their relations with men, in their relations with women, all men are rapists and that's all they are. They rape us with their eyes, their laws, their codes.
    Marilyn French
    American radical feminist author (1929 - 2009)
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  • John Wooden Whatever you do in life, surround yourself with smart people who'll argue with you.
    John Wooden
    American basketball player and head coach (1910 - 2010)
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  • Martin Luther King Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.
    Martin Luther King
    American preacher (1929 - 1968)
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  • Ayaan Hirsi Ali When a 'Life of Brian' comes out with Muhammad in the lead role, directed by an Arab equivalent of Theo van Gogh, it will be a huge step forward.
    Ayaan Hirsi Ali
    Somali-born Dutch-American activist, feminist and author (1969 - )
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  • Brian P. Cleary When a kid can understand that a word can mean two things, there's some real thinking going on. They have a vested interest in finding out what a word means, because it's the punch line to a joke.
    Brian P. Cleary
    American humorist and poet (1959 - )
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  • Samuel Johnson When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Mme de Stael When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.
    Mme de Stael
    French-Swiss novelist and essayist (1766 - 1817)
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