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  • Dag Hammarskjöld Life yields only to the conqueror. Never accept what can be gained by giving in. You will be living off stolen goods, and your muscles will atrophy.
    Dag Hammarskjöld
    Swedish diplomat (1905 - 1961)
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  • Franz Kafka Life's splendor forever lies in wait about each one of us in all its fullness, but veiled from view, deep down, invisible, far off. It is there, though, not hostile, not reluctant, not deaf. If you summon it by the right word, by its right name, it will come.
    Franz Kafka
    Chech German-speaking writer (1883 - 1924)
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  • Boris Pasternak Like a beast in a pen, I'm cut off
    From my friends, freedom, the Sun.
    But the hunters are gaining ground;
    I've nowhere else to run.
    Source: Selected Poems (1983)
    Boris Pasternak
    Russian writer (1890 - 1960)
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  • Buzz Aldrin Like actors and writers who are on and off again in terms of employment, I had a very unstructured life.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • Beau Willimon Like any young person who gets into a political campaign, I joined out of a highfalutin' desire to change the world. But you start to see the sort of tactics people use. You start to see politics not only in the macro but in the micro of the campaign itself. Some people get turned off by this side of it. Other people are drawn to it.
    Beau Willimon
    American playwright and screenwriter (1977 - )
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  • Philip Roth Literature isn't a moral beauty contest. Its power arises from the authority and audacity with which the impersonation is pulled off; the belief it inspires is what counts.
    Philip Roth
    American Novelist (1933 - 2018)
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  • Ray Bradbury Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down
    Ray Bradbury
    American science-fiction writer (1920 - 2012)
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  • Stephen Leacock Lord Ronald said nothing; he flung himself from the room, flung himself upon his horse and rode madly off in all directions.
    Stephen Leacock
    Canadian humorist and economist (1869 - 1944)
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  • Friedrich von Schiller Lose not yourself in a far off time, seize the moment that is thine.
    Friedrich von Schiller
    German poet and playwright (1759 - 1805)
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  • Bobby Jindal Louisiana loses 30 miles a year off our coast. We lost 100 miles last year off our coast thanks to Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. We have lost a size of land equivalent to the entire state of Rhode Island.
    Bobby Jindal
    American politician (1971 - )
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  • William Shakespeare Love is not love when it is mingled with regards that stand aloof from the entire point.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Natalie Clifford Barney Lovers should also have their days off.
    Natalie Clifford Barney
    American-born French author (1876 - 1972)
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  • Bob Gunton Lyndon Johnson may have escalated the war, but when I was drafted and shipped off to Vietnam, the signature on my orders was Nixon's.
    Bob Gunton
     
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  • Elizabeth Gaskell Madam your wife and I didn't hit it off the only time I ever saw her. I won't say she was silly, but I think one of us was silly, and it wasn't me.
    Elizabeth Gaskell
    British writer (1810 - 1865)
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  • Samuel Beckett Make sense who may. I switch off.
    Samuel Beckett
    Irish dramatist and novelist (1906 - 1989)
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  • Benjamin Watson Make sure you know your identity is in Christ, so that when you get laid off from your job, or when you get a raise from your job, or when things don't go right, you're not up and down, up and down.
    Benjamin Watson
    American football player (1980 - )
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  • Meister Eckhart Man goes far away or near but God never goes far-off; he is always standing close at hand, and even if he cannot stay within he goes no further than the door.
    Meister Eckhart
    German mystic (1260 - 1328)
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  • Confucius Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in.
    Confucius
    Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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  • Albert Bushnell Hart Many attempts had been made by colonial legislatures to cut off or to tax the importation of slaves.
    Albert Bushnell Hart
    American historian, writer, and editor (1854 - 1943)
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  • Ben Horowitz Many of the people that you lay off will have closer relationships with the people who stay than you do, so treat them with an appropriate level of respect.
    Ben Horowitz
    American businessman, investor, blogger, and author (1966 - )
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