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  • Britney Spears Honestly, I still don't use my computer. My kids use the computer more than I do! I understand that a lot of people are into it, and I have days where I write and stuff, but it's really not for me. It's not my thing.
    Britney Spears
    American singer, songwriter, dancer, and actress (1981 - )
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  • Don Marquis Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control.
    Don Marquis
    American writer (1878 - 1937)
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  • Akhenaton Honor is the inner garment of the Soul; the first thing put on by it with the flesh, and the last it layeth down at its separation from it.
    Akhenaton
    Egyptian King, Monotheist (1372 - 1337)
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  • Anne Lamott Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up.
    Anne Lamott
    American novelist and non-fiction writer (1954 - )
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  • Henry Miller Hope is a bad thing. It means that you are not what you want to be. It means that part of you is dead, if not all of you. It means that you entertain illusions. It's a sort of spiritual clap, I should say.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • Vaclav Havel Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.
    Vaclav Havel
    Czech statesman, writer and former dissident (1936 - 2011)
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  • Barack Obama Hope is that thing inside us that insists, despite all the evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits us if we have the courage to reach for it and to work for it and to fight for it.
    Source: Iowa Caucus Speech (3 jan 2008)
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Henry Rollins Hope is the last thing a person does before they are defeated.
    Henry Rollins
    American musician, actor and writer (1961 - )
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld Hope is the last thing that dies in man; and though it be exceedingly deceitful, yet it is of this good use to us, that while we are traveling through life it conducts us in an easier and more pleasant way to our journey's end.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Emily Dickinson Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul - and sings the tunes without the words - and never stops at all.
    Emily Dickinson
    American poet (1830 - 1886)
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  • Herodotus How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied.
    Herodotus
    Greek historian (484 - 425)
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  • Alice Walker How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names.
    Alice Walker
    American Author, Critic (1944 - 1982)
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  • Oscar Wilde How strange a thing this is! The Priest telleth me that the Soul is worth all the gold in the world, and the merchants say that it is not worth a clipped piece of silver.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Blaise Pascal How wonderful it is that a thing so evident as the vanity of the world is so little known, that it is a strange and surprising thing to say that it is foolish to seek greatness!
    Source: Pensees (1669)
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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  • Penelope Fitzgerald However, no two people see the external world in exactly the same way. To every separate person a thing is what he thinks it is - in other words, not a thing, but a think.
    Penelope Fitzgerald
    English novelist, poet, essayist and biographer (1916 - 2000)
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  • Jane Austen Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries or dies, is sure of being kindly spoken of.
    Jane Austen
    English writer (1775 - 1817)
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  • James Thurber Humor is a serious thing. I like to think of it as one of our greatest earliest natural resources, which must be preserved at all cost.
    James Thurber
    American cartoonist (1894 - 1961)
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  • Bob Dylan I accept chaos, I'm not sure whether it accepts me.
    Bob Dylan
    American musician (1941 - )
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  • Ann Veneman I also believe that it's the right thing to do, to maintain strong consumer confidence in our food systems. And I believe that the consumer should have strong confidence in our food systems.
    Ann Veneman
    American politician (1949 - )
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