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  • Thomas J. Watson If you want to achieve excellence, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less-than-excellent work.
    Thomas J. Watson
    American Businessman, Founder of IBM (1874 - 1956)
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  • Anne Bronte If you would have your son to walk honourably through the world, you must not attempt to clear the stones from his path, but teach him to walk firmly over them - not insist upon leading him by the hand, but let him learn to go alone.
    Anne Bronte
    British writer (1820 - 1849)
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  • Carl Hiaasen If you write satire, the guilty pleasure these days is that there's just so much material about. On the other hand, if you have a family it can be depressing.
    Carl Hiaasen
    American writer, author and journalist (1953 - )
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  • Caitlyn Marie Jenner If you're going to dedicate every second to winning the decathlon, what are you doing wasting your time in bed?
    Caitlyn Marie Jenner
    American television personality and decathlete (born Bruce Jenner)
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  • Arthur Eddington If your theory is found to be against the second law of theromodynamics, I give you no hope; there is nothing for it but to collapse in deepest humiliation.
    Arthur Eddington
    English astronomer, physicist, and mathematician (1882 - 1944)
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  • Kofi Annan Ignorance and prejudice are the handmaidens of propaganda. Our mission, therefore, is to confront ignorance with knowledge, bigotry with tolerance, and isolation with the outstretched hand of generosity. Racism can, will, and must be defeated.
    Kofi Annan
    Ghanaian diplomat (1938 - 2018)
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  • Bob Uecker In 1962 I was named Minor League Player of the Year. It was my second season in the bigs.
    Bob Uecker
    American Major League Baseball (MLB) player (1934 - )
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  • Barbara Demick In 2012, a five-year-old girl in Shandong province described to me how ten officials had chased her six-months-pregnant mother through the fields to prevent the birth of the family's second child, a boy. She died during the procedure.
    Barbara Demick
    American journalist
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  • Bob Dylan In a soldier's stance, I aimed my hand at the mongrel dogs who teach
    Fearing not that I'd become my enemy in the instance that I preached
    My existence led by confusion boats, mutiny from stern to bow.
    Another Side of Bob Dylan (1964)
    Bob Dylan
    American musician (1941 - )
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  • Carl Honore In a world where so much happens through computer screens, making a meal by hand, touching the raw materials, feeling your way through a recipe, tasting, adjusting, engaging all the senses, can be a soothing release.
    Carl Honore
    Canadian journalist (1967 - )
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  • Booker T. Washington In all things that are purely social we can be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress.
    Up From Slavery (1901) Ch. XIV: The Atlanta Exposition Address
    Booker T. Washington
    American Black Leader and Educator (1856 - 1915)
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  • Brin-Jonathan Butler In film or on stage, in reflecting life through art, an actor has a second take or another day with his or her performance if something goes wrong. Bullfighters are spies crossing into enemy lines. Any mistake, no matter how minor or trivial, is potentially fatal.
    Brin-Jonathan Butler
    American journalist and filmmaker
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  • Brian K. Vaughan In film, you have the luxury of accomplishing what you need in 24 frames every second. Comics, you only have five or six panels a page to do that.
    Brian K. Vaughan
    American comic book and television writer (1976 - )
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  • Carl Gustav Jung In my case Pilgrim's Progress consisted in my having to climb down a thousand ladders until I could reach out my hand to the little clod of earth that I am.
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Bob Beauprez In my native Boulder County, Colorado, the fracking fanatics are out in force. They are marching door-to-door, petitions and mythology in hand, and they are storming city council and county commissioner meetings.
    Bob Beauprez
    American politician and member (1948 - )
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  • Jiddu Krishnamurti In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself.
    Jiddu Krishnamurti
    Indian theosophist (1895 - 1986)
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  • Henrik Ibsen In that second it dawned on me that I had been living here for eight years with a strange man and had borne him three children.
    Henrik Ibsen
    Norwegian dramatist (1828 - 1906)
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  • Carl Gustav Jung In the second half of life the necessity is imposed of recognizing no longer the validity of our former ideals but of their contraries. Of perceiving the error in what was previously our conviction, of sensing the untruth in what was our truth, and of weighing the degree of opposition, and even of hostility, in what we took to be love.
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Brad Carson In the U.S. I think there are really two reasons we should pursue energy policy. One is climate change, and the second is this notion that the oil market is cartel-ized by people, some of whom are friendly, some of whom are not, some of whom are in a more ambivalent position to us.
    Brad Carson
    American lawyer and politician (1967 - )
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  • Benjamin Todd Jealous In this nation, the greatest of all nations, there are no second-class families. That is our great American conviction.
    Benjamin Todd Jealous
    American civic leader and politician (1973 - )
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