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  • Alice Walker The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men.
    Alice Walker
    American Author, Critic (1944 - 1982)
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  • Ben Elton The appropriation of radical thinking by lazy, self-obsessed hippies is a public relations disaster that could cost the earth.
    Stark Court, Hippies and Love at First Sight
    Ben Elton
    British-Australian comedian, author, playwright, actor and director (1959 - )
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  • Billy Wilder The Austrians are brilliant people. They made the world believe that Hitler was a German and Beethoven an Austrian.
    Billy Wilder
    Austrian-American filmmaker, screenwriter, producer and artist (1906 - 2002)
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  • Napoleon Hill The battle is all over except the ''shouting'' when one knows what is wanted and has made up his mind to get it, whatever the price may be.
    Napoleon Hill
    American self-help author (1883 - 1970)
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  • George Harrison The Beatles exist apart from my Self. I am not really Beatle George. Beatle George is like a suit or shirt that I once wore on occasion and until the end of my life people may see that shirt and mistake it for me.
    George Harrison
    English musician, singer and songwriter (1943 - 2001)
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  • Gay Hendricks The beauty of the human mind is that any decision that is made can be unmade.
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  • Casey Stengel The best ballplayer's the one who doesn't think he made good. He keeps trying to convince you.
    Casey Stengel
    American basketbal player and manager (1890 - 1975)
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  • Thomas Carlyle The best effect of any book, is that it excites the reader to self-activity.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Theodore Roosevelt The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.
    Theodore Roosevelt
    American statesman (1858 - 1919)
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  • Edwin Hubbel Chapin The best men are not those who have waited for chances but who have taken them; besieged the chance; conquered the chance; and made chance the servitor.
    Edwin Hubbel Chapin
    American author and clergyman (1814 - 1880)
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  • Barbara Corcoran The best mistake I ever made was believing that I was stupid. It was a childhood thing, but it played out big-time as an adult. It scorned me the rest of my life - in a good way.
    Barbara Corcoran
    American businesswoman, investor, speaker and consultant (1949 - )
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  • Red Auerbach The best way to forget ones self is to look at the world with attention and love.
    Red Auerbach
    American basketball coach of the Washington Capitols, the Tri-Cities B (1917 - 2006)
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  • Bob Uecker The biggest thrill a ballplayer can have is when your son takes after you. That happened when my Bobby was in his championship Little League game. He really showed me something. Struck out three times. Made an error that lost the game. Parents were throwing things at our car and swearing at us as we drove off. Gosh, I was proud.
    Bob Uecker
    American Major League Baseball (MLB) player (1934 - )
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  • Thomas Alva Edison The body is a community made up of its innumerable cells or inhabitants.
    Thomas Alva Edison
    American inventor and founder of General Electric (1847 - 1931)
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  • Marcel Proust The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
    Marcel Proust
    French writer and critic (1871 - 1922)
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  • Rabindranath Tagore The burden of the self is lightened with I laugh at myself.
    Rabindranath Tagore
    Indian mystic and poet (1861 - 1941)
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  • Anthony Kennedy The case for freedom, the case for our constitutional principles the case for our heritage has to be made anew in each generation. The work of freedom is never done.
    Anthony Kennedy
    American lawyer and jurist (1936 - )
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  • Barry Lam The chef can be very innovative, but the decision is made by the customer.
    Barry Lam
    Taiwanese billionaire businessman (1949 - )
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  • Beck The cliche of what a rock star is - there's something elitist about it. I never related to that. I'm an entertainer. I think of it as, you're performing for people. It's not a self-glorification thing.
    Beck
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1970 - )
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  • Barney Frank The Clinton tax increase - which was an increase in taxes primarily on upper-income people - not only made the tax code more nearly progressive, it preceded one of the most productive economic periods in American life.
    Barney Frank
    American politician (1940 - )
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