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  • John Greenleaf Whittier The dreariest spot in all the land to Death they set apart; with scanty grace from Nature's hand, and none from that of Art.
    John Greenleaf Whittier
    American poet and writer (1807 - 1892)
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  • W. H. Auden The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition.
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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  • Bastian Schweinsteiger The English have a special sense of humour. This I immediately experienced in the dressing room. As I walked with two plates while eating, suddenly a team-mate asked me, 'Basti, what time is it?' hoping I would automatically turn my hand to look at my watch. That's quite entertaining.
    Bastian Schweinsteiger
    German professional footballer (1984 - )
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  • Bobby Seale The FBI's Counter-Intelligence Program would work hand-in-hand with police departments, literally planning attacks on Black Panther Party offices throughout the United States of America. They did this over a period of time.
    Bobby Seale
    American political activist (1936 - )
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  • Bruce Springsteen The first day I can remember looking into a mirror and being able to stand what I saw was the day I had a guitar in my hand.
    Bruce Springsteen Talking
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Jean de la Bruyère The first day one is a guest, the second a burden, and the third a pest.
    Jean de la Bruyère
    French writer (1645 - 1696)
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  • Anacharsis The first draught serveth for health, the second for pleasure, the third for shame, and the fourth for madness.
    Anacharsis
    Scythian philosopher
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  • Virginia Woolf The first duty of a lecturer is to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up between the pages of your notebooks and keep on the mantelpiece forever.
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Oscar Wilde The first duty of life is to be as artificial as possible. What the second duty is no one as yet discovered.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Sir William Temple The first glass is for myself, the second for my friends, the third for good humor, and the forth for my enemies.
    Sir William Temple
    British Diplomat, Essayist (1628 - 1699)
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  • Clarence Darrow The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
    Clarence Darrow
    American Lawyer (1857 - 1938)
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  • Clarence Darrow The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents, and the second half by our children.
    Clarence Darrow
    American Lawyer (1857 - 1938)
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  • Barry Commoner The First Law of Ecology: Everything Is Connected to Everything Else.... The Second Law of Ecology: Everything Must Go Somewhere.... The Third Law of Ecology: Nature Knows Best.... The Fourth Law of Ecology: There Is No Such Thing as a Free Lunch.
    The Closing Circle
    Barry Commoner
    American cellular biologist, college professor, and politician (1917 - 2012)
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  • Andrew Carnegie The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell.
    Andrew Carnegie
    American industrialist (1835 - 1919)
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  • Robert Heller The first myth of management is that it exists. The second myth of management is that success equals skill.
    Robert Heller
    British management journalist, management consultant and author (1932 - 2012)
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  • Ernest Hemingway The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • Bill Gates The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.
    The Road Ahead
    Bill Gates
    American business magnate, investor, author and philanthropist (1955 - )
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  • Nathaniel Branden The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.
    Nathaniel Branden
    Canadian–American psychotherapist and writer (1930 - 2014)
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  • Abraham Cowley The first three men in the world were a gardener, a ploughman, and a grazier; and if any man object that the second of these was a murderer, I desire he would consider that as soon as he was so, he quitted our profession and turned builder.
    Abraham Cowley
    English poet (1618 - 1667)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes The freeman, casting with unpurchased hand the vote that shakes the turrets of the land.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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