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  • William Shakespeare Confusion now hath made his masterpiece!
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • William Shakespeare God made him, and therefore let him pass for a man.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson 'Tis a superstition to insist on a special diet. All is made at last of the same chemical atoms.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Karl Albrecht The typical human life seems to be quite unplanned, undirected, unlived, and unsavored. Only those who consciously think about the adventure of living as a matter of making choices among options, which they have found for themselves, ever establish real self-control and live their lives fully.
    Karl Albrecht
    German entrepreneur (1920 - 2014)
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  • Robert Frost Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
    Robert Frost
    American poet (1874 - 1963)
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  • A. V. Dicey Our constitution, in short, is a judge-made constitution, and it bears on its face all the features, good and bad, of judge-made law.
    Introduction to the Study of the Law of the Constitution
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  • Jean Baudrillard Contact with men who wield power and authority still leaves an intangible sense of repulsion. It's very like being in close proximity to fecal matter, the fecal embodiment of something unmentionable, and you wonder what it is made of and when it acquired its historically sacred character.
    Jean Baudrillard
    French sociologist and philosopher. (1929 - 2007)
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  • André Maurois Smile, for everyone lacks self-confidence and more than any other one thing a smile reassures them.
    André Maurois
    French writer (ps. van mile Herzog) (1885 - 1967)
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  • Franklin D. Roosevelt But while they prate of economic laws, men and women are starving. We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.
    Franklin D. Roosevelt
    American statesman (1882 - 1945)
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  • Joseph Addison Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Socrates Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.
    Socrates
    Greek philosopher (469 - 399)
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  • Joseph De Maistre A constitution that is made for all nations is made for none.
    Joseph De Maistre
    French diplomat and philosopher (1753 - 1821)
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  • Freeman Dyson A good cause can become bad if we fight for it with means that are indiscriminately murderous. A bad cause can become good if enough people fight for it in a spirit of comradeship and self-sacrifice. In the end it is how you fight, as much as why you fight, that makes your cause good or bad.
    Freeman Dyson
    American arts, writer (1923 - 2020)
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  • Christopher Morley A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
    Christopher Morley
    American Novelist, Journalist, Poet (1890 - 1957)
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  • Victor Hugo A saint addicted to excessive self-abnegation is a dangerous associate; he may infect you with poverty, and a stiffening of those joints which are needed for advancement - in a word, with more renunciation than you care for - and so you flee the contagion.
    Victor Hugo
    French writer (1802 - 1885)
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  • Marcel Proust All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.
    Marcel Proust
    French writer and critic (1871 - 1922)
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  • Benjamin Franklin Do not squander time for that is the stuff life is made of.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Aldous Huxley Facts are ventriloquists dummies. Sitting on a wise man's knee they may be made to utter words of wisdom; elsewhere, they say nothing, or talk nonsense, or indulge in sheer diabolism.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • George Eliot It is possible to have a strong self-love without any self-satisfaction, rather with a self-discontent which is the more intense because one's own little core of egoistic sensibility is a supreme care.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Aldous Huxley Knowledge is an affair of symbols and is, all too often, a hindrance to wisdom, the uncovering of the self from moment to moment.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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