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  • Groucho Marx He may look like an idiot and talk like an idiot, but don't let that fool you - he really is an idiot.
    Groucho Marx
    American comic actor (1890 - 1977)
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  • Bruce Lee I'm not in this world to live up to your expectations and you're not in this world to live up to mine.
    Bruce Lee
    Chinese-American Actor, Director, Author, Martial Artist (1940 - 1973)
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  • Willa Cather The condition every art requires is, not so much freedom from restriction, as freedom from adulteration and from the intrusion of foreign matter.
    Willa Cather
    American author (1873 - 1947)
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  • Lydia M. Child A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.
    Lydia M. Child
    American Abolitionist, Writer, Editor (1802 - 1880)
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  • Robert Frost A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.
    Robert Frost
    American poet (1874 - 1963)
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  • William Shakespeare A walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Joey Adams Bankruptcy is a legal proceeding in which you put your money in your pants pocket and give your coat to your creditors.
    Joey Adams
    American comedian (1911 - 1999)
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  • William Shakespeare But love is blind, and lovers cannot see What petty follies they themselves commit
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • John Ruskin Children see in their parents the past, their parents see in them the future; and if we find more love in the parents for their children than in children for their parents, this is sad but natural. Who does not entertain his hopes more than his recollections.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Clever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Martin Luther King Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full of grace. a soul generated by love.
    Martin Luther King
    American preacher (1929 - 1968)
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  • John Locke Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.
    John Locke
    English philosopher (1632 - 1704)
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  • Reinhold Niebuhr God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
    Reinhold Niebuhr
    American theologist, historian (1892 - 1971)
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  • Franklin D. Roosevelt Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
    Franklin D. Roosevelt
    American statesman (1882 - 1945)
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  • Elizabeth Gaskell He had not an ounce of superfluous flesh on his bones, and leanness goes a great way towards gentility.
    Elizabeth Gaskell
    British writer (1810 - 1865)
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  • Les Brown Help others achieve their dreams and you will achieve yours.
    Les Brown
    American motivational speaker, author and radio DJ (1945 - )
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  • Henry David Thoreau How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book! The book exists for us, perchance, that will explain our miracles and reveal new ones. The at present unutterable things we may find somewhere uttered.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Philip Adams It seems to me that people have vast potential. Most people can do extraordinary things if they have the confidence or take the risks. Yet most people don't. They sit in front of the telly and treat life as if it goes on forever.
    Philip Adams
    British career diplomat. (1915 - 2001)
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  • Camille Paglia Men are run ragged by female sexuality all their lives. From the beginning of his life to the end, no man ever fully commands any woman. It's an illusion. Men are pussy-whipped. And they know it. That's what the strip clubs are about; not woman as victim, not woman as slave, but woman as goddess.
    As quoted in Sexuality and Gender (2002)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Baba Kalyani Our strategy should be based on indigenisation and import substitution. The government must provide opportunities for domestic companies to participate in sectors in which the country continues to depend on imports.
    Baba Kalyani
    Indian businessman (1949 - )
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