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  • Lord Chesterfield An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • A. P. Herbert An act of God was defined as ''something which no reasonable man could have expected.''
    A. P. Herbert
    English humorist, novelist and playwright (1890 - 1971)
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  • Richard Burton An actor is something less than a man, while an actress is something more than a woman.
    Richard Burton
    Welsh actor (1925 - 1984)
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  • Fred A. Allen An advertising agency is 85 percent confusion and 15 percent commission.
    Fred A. Allen
    American comic (1894 - 1956)
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  • Bette Davis An affair now and then is good for a marriage. It adds spice, stops it from getting boring... I ought to know.
    Bette Davis
    American Actress, Producer (1908 - 1989)
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  • Alan Greenspan An almost hysterical antagonism toward the gold standard is one issue which unites statists of all persuasions. They seem to sense... that gold and economic freedom are inseparable.
    Alan Greenspan
    American economist (1926 - )
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  • Alexis de Tocqueville An American cannot converse, but he can discuss, and his talk falls into a dissertation. He speaks to you as if he was addressing a meeting; and if he should chance to become warm in the discussion, he will say ''Gentlemen'' to the person with whom he is conversing.
    Alexis de Tocqueville
    French aristocrat, political philosopher and sociologist (1805 - 1859)
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  • Martin Luther An angel is a spiritual creature created by God without a body for the service of Christendom and the church.
    Martin Luther
    German preacher (1483 - 1546)
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  • Karl Kraus An aphorism can never be the whole truth; it is either a half-truth or a truth-and-a-half.
    Karl Kraus
    Austrian writer and journalist (1874 - 1936)
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  • Friedrich von Schlegel An aphorism ought to be entirely isolated from the surrounding world like a little work of art and complete in itself like a hedgehog.
    Friedrich von Schlegel
    German man of letters and art critic (1772 - 1829)
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  • Adnan Pachachi An apology for the actions of some troops who, of course, are not representative of the majority of the armed forces here, I think that would have been useful and it would have helped to some extent.
    Adnan Pachachi
    Iraqi and Emirati politician (1923 - 2019)
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  • John Ruskin An architect should live as little in cities as a painter. Send him to our hills, and let him study there what nature understands by a buttress, and what by a dome.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Mao Tse-Tung An army without culture is a dull-witted army, and a dull-witted army cannot defeat the enemy.
    Mao Tse-Tung
    Chinese politician (1893 - 1976)
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  • Charles Mackay An arrow may fly through the air and leave no trace; but an ill thought leaves a trail like a serpent.
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  • William Faulkner An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why.
    William Faulkner
    American writer (1897 - 1962)
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  • Evelyn Waugh An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.
    Evelyn Waugh
    British novelist (1903 - 1966)
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  • Bridget Riley An artist's early work is inevitably made up of a mixture of tendencies and interests, some of which are compatible and some of which are in conflict.
    Source: The Eyes Mind: Collected Writings 1965-2009 (2009)
    Bridget Riley
    English painter (1931 - )
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  • Dwight D. Eisenhower An atheist is a man who watches a Notre Dame - Southern Methodist University game and doesn't care who wins.
    Dwight D. Eisenhower
    American president (1890 - 1969)
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  • Simone Weil An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God.
    Simone Weil
    French philosopher (1909 - 1943)
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  • Carl Lewis An athlete and actor are really two different temperaments, night and day. As an athlete you really keep things out and as an actor you really bring things in.
    Carl Lewis
    American athlete (1961 - )
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