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  • Marcus Aurelius To understand the true quality of people, you must look into their minds, and examine their pursuits and aversions.
    Marcus Aurelius
    Roman emperor (121 - 180)
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  • Thomas Carlyle To us also, through every star, through every blade of grass, is not God made visible if we will open our minds and our eyes.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Norman Thomas To us Americans much has been given; of us much is required. With all our faults and mistakes, it is our strength in support of the freedom our forefathers loved which has saved mankind from subjection to totalitarian power.
    Norman Thomas
     
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  • Barbara Bush To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there.
    Barbara Bush
    American First Lady (1925 - 2018)
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  • H. L. Wayland To value riches is not to be covetous. They are the gift of God, and, like every gift of his, good in themselves, and capable of a good use. But to overvalue riches, to give them a place in the heart which God did not design them to fill, this is covetous
    H. L. Wayland
     
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  • Tryon Edwards To waken interest and kindle enthusiasm is the sure way to teach easily and successfully.
    Tryon Edwards
    American theologian (1809 - 1894)
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  • André Gide To what a degree the same past can leave different marks - and especially admit of different interpretations.
    André Gide
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1947) (1869 - 1951)
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  • Queen Elizabeth II To what greater inspiration and counsel can we turn than to the imperishable truth to be found in this treasure house, the Bible?
    Queen Elizabeth II
    Queen of the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand (1926 - 2022)
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  • Miguel de Cervantes To withdraw is not to run away, and to stay is no wise action, when there's more reason to fear than to hope.
    Miguel de Cervantes
    Spanish writer and poet (1547 - 1616)
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  • Carl Sandburg To work hard, to live hard, to die hard, and then go to hell after all would be too damn hard.
    Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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  • Carl Sandburg To work hard, to live hard, to die hard, and then to go to hell after all would be too damned hard.
    Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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  • Albert Pike To work with the hands or brain, according to our requirements and our capacities, to do that which lies before us to do, is more honorable than rank and title.
    Albert Pike
    American attorney, soldier, writer, and Freemason (1809 - 1891)
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  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to finish without knowing what you have written.
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    French writer and philosopher (1712 - 1778)
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  • Maurice Blanchot To write is to make oneself the echo of what cannot cease speaking - and since it cannot, in order to become its echo I have, in a way, to silence it. I bring to this incessant speech the decisiveness, the authority of my own silence.
    Maurice Blanchot
    French writer and philosopher (1907 - 2003)
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  • Charles Caleb Colton To write what is worth publishing, to find honest people to publish it, and get sensible people to read it, are the three great difficulties in being an author.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • A. E. Housman To-day, the road all runners come,
    Shoulder-high, we bring you home,
    And set you at your threshold down,
    Townsman of a stiller town.
    Source: A Shropshire Lad (1896) No. 19 (To an Athlete Dying Young), st. 2
    A. E. Housman
    British poet (1859 - 1936)
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  • Luis Bunuel Tobacco and alcohol, delicious fathers of abiding friendships and fertile reveries.
    Luis Bunuel
    Spanish director (1900 - 1983)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Tobacco and opium have broad backs, and will cheerfully carry the load of armies, if you choose to make them pay high for such joy as they give and such harm as they do.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Bob Graham Today 80 percent of all the oil that comes out of the Gulf is from 1,000 feet or more and today almost a third of it is more than 5,000 feet below the surface. What hasn't happened is the safety and the ability to respond to a negative event such as this blowout, has been far outrun by the technology of drilling itself. We need to close that gap.
    Bob Graham
    American politician and author (1936 - )
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  • Bill Pascrell Today a minimum wage earner has to work a day and a half just to pay for a full tank of gas. That is simply shameful.
    Bill Pascrell
    American politician (1937 - )
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