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  • Baruch Spinoza How would it be possible if salvation were ready to our hand, and could without great labor be found, that it should be by almost all men neglected? But all things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
    Baruch Spinoza
    Dutch philosopher (1632 - 1677)
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  • Lou Holtz How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser.
    Lou Holtz
    American football coach (1937 - 1980)
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  • Anne Perry I am now working on the second WWI story and find the challenge marvelous.
    Anne Perry
    English author (1938 - )
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  • Bernard M. Baruch I am quite sure that in the hereafter she will take me by the hand and lead me to my proper seat.
    News summaries (29 August 1955)
    Bernard M. Baruch
    American investor, philanthropist, statesman, and political consultant (1870 - 1965)
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  • John D. Rockefeller I believe in the dignity of labor, whether with head or hand; that the world owes no man a living but that it owes every man an opportunity to make a living.
    John D. Rockefeller
    American industrialist: founder Exxon (1839 - 1937)
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  • Bruce Parry I couldn't get to sleep at night without saying the Lord's Prayer because, when I was young, I felt I was touched by the hand of Jesus, and hated myself for challenging it.
    As quoted in Bruce Parry: My job doesnt allow me a private life by Cassandra Jardine in The Telegraph (19 September 1007)
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  • Umberto Eco I feel that I am a scholar who only with the left hand writes novels.
    Umberto Eco
    Italian writer and critic (1932 - 2016)
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  • Frank Lloyd Wright I find it hard to believe that the machine would go into the creative artist's hand even were that magic hand in true place. It has been too far exploited by industrialism and science at expense to art and true religion.
    Frank Lloyd Wright
    American architect (1867 - 1959)
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  • Alejo Carpentier I gladly accepted the commission but was uncertain about what the end result would be. On the one hand, Cuban music was conquering the world; being heard everywhere, and our small island was already producing one of the popular musical genres of the 20th century.
    Alejo Carpentier
    Cuban novelist, essayist, and musicologist (1904 - 1980)
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  • Josh Billings I have lived in the world just long enough to look carefully the second time into those things that I am most certain of the first time.
    Josh Billings
    American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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  • Josh Billings I have lived in this world just long enough to look carefully the second time into things that I am the most certain of the first time.
    Josh Billings
    American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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  • Arthur Godfrey I liked the way they treated the first, second, and third place finishers equally. It was an amazing year. I only entered two song contests this year; I won one and placed second in the other. And I entered each of them a day or two before the deadline.
    Arthur Godfrey
    American radio and television (1903 - 1983)
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  • Sir Francis Drake I must have the gentleman to haul and draw with the mariner, and the mariner with the gentleman. I would know him, that would refuse to set his hand to a rope, but I know there is not any such here.
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  • Adam Jones I played violin and got into that Suzuki program in the second grade.
    Adam Jones
    American musician (1965 - )
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  • Anita Loos I really think that American gentlemen are the best after all, because kissing your hand may make you feel very good but a diamond and a sapphire bracelet lasts forever.
    Anita Loos
    American writer, screenwriter (1889 - 1981)
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  • Abbey Lincoln I remember hearing the song when I was 12 or 14 in - it must have been in Chicago, 'cause we didn't have a radio on the farm, and it was during the second World War. I had three brothers in that war who went overseas.
    Abbey Lincoln
    American jazz vocalist, songwriter, and actress (1930 - 2010)
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  • Erin Cleary I see music as the augmentation of a split second of time.
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  • Martin Luther I shall never be a heretic; I may err in dispute, but I do not wish to decide anything finally; on the other hand, I am not bound by the opinions of men.
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  • Benjamin Franklin I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Bill Hybels I sometimes wonder if my requests are legitimate. So I'm honest with God. I say, Lord, I don't know if I have the right to ask for this. I don't know how I should pray about it. But I hand it over to your now, and if you'll tell me how to pray, I'll pray your way.
    Too Busy Not to Pray
    Bill Hybels
    American church figure and author (1951 - )
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