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  • Virginia Woolf Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible.
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Marcia Wieder Fill your life with as many moments and experiences of joy and passion as you humanly can. Start with one experience and build on it.
    Marcia Wieder
    CEO and Founder of Dream University
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  • Martin Bormann Films and gramophone records, music, books and buildings show clearly how vigorously a man's life and work go on after his ''death,'' whether we feel it or not, whether we are aware of the individual names or not. There is no such thing as death according to our view!
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  • Arnold H. Glasgow Find an aim in life before you run out of ammunition.
    Arnold H. Glasgow
    American editor and businessman (Born as Arnold Henry Glasow) (1905 - 1998)
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  • Peter Nivio Zarlenga First have being in your mind. Make real in your mind then bring that being into reality. The genius is he who sees what is not yet and causes it to come to be.
    Peter Nivio Zarlenga
    American businessman, founder of Blockbuster Videos
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  • Bobby Fischer First of all, we have to understand what communism is. I mean, to me, real communism, the Soviet communism, is basically a mask for Bolshevism, which is a mask for Judaism.
    Press Conference, September 1 1992 [6]
    Bobby Fischer
    American chess grandmaster (1943 - 2008)
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  • Ryszard Kapuscinski First you destroy those who create values. Then you destroy those who know what the values are, and who also know that those destroyed before were in fact the creators of values. But real barbarism begins when no one can any longer judge or know that what he does is barbaric.
    Ryszard Kapuscinski
    Polish foreign correspondent and journalist (1932 - 2007)
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  • Barack Obama Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.
    Power in Words: The Stories Behind Barack Obamas Speeches, from the State House to the White House
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Alan Parsons Folk rock was my real roots. I did a few gigs as a folk artist, in the style of Fairport Convention.
    Alan Parsons
    English audio engineer, songwriter, musician (1948 - )
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  • Thomas Carlyle Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • George F. Will Football combines the two worst features of American life. It is violence punctuated by committee meetings.
    George F. Will
    American columnist (1941 - )
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  • Bobby Bowden Football has always been a big part of my life. Almost from the day I was born, playing and coaching football were all I really ever wanted to do.
    Bobby Bowden
    American football coach (1929 - )
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  • Vince Lombardi Football is like life - it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.
    Vince Lombardi
    American football player (1913 - 1970)
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  • Albert Ellis For a man there are three certainties in life: death, taxes, and women. It is often difficult to say which is the worst.
    Albert Ellis
    American psychologist (1913 - 2007)
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  • Bjork For a person as obsessed with music as I am, I always hear a song in the back of my head, all the time, and that usually is my own tune. I've done that all my life.
    Bjork
    Icelandic singer, songwriter and actress (1965 - )
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  • Cao Yu For a writer, life is always too short to write. I will just try my best during what remains of my life.
    Cao Yu
     
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  • Ralph Nader For almost seventy years the life insurance industry has been a smug sacred cow feeding the public a steady line of sacred bull.
    Ralph Nader
    American political activist, author and attorney (1934 - )
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  • Blaise Pascal For as old age is that period of life most remote from infancy, who does not see that old age in this universal man ought not to be sought in the times nearest his birth, but in those most remote from it?
    Preface to the Treatise on Vacuum
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Bernie Sanders For better or worse, when Sen. Inhofe speaks, the Republican Party follows. And when the Republican Party follows, it is impossible to get real work done in the Congress.
    Bernie Sanders
    American politician (1941 - )
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  • Amy Lowell For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men lived and worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives.
    Amy Lowell
    American poet, criticus (1874 - 1925)
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