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  • Henry Louis Mencken One may no more live in the world without picking up the moral prejudices of the world than one will be able to go to hell without perspiring.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Anne Hutchinson One may preach a covenant of grace more clearly than another... But when they preach a covenant of works for salvation, that is not truth.
    Anne Hutchinson
    American religious reformer and activist
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton One may understand the Cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe One never goes further than when they do not know where they are going.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Bernice Johnson Reagon One of the biggest things I understood in a program like that was that it allowed more young African American scholars to do field research in the Caribbean and in Africa than had ever happened before in the history of the country and since.
    Bernice Johnson Reagon
    American composer, scholar, and social activist (1942 - )
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  • Maxwell Maltz One of the reasons it has seemed so difficult for a person to change his habits, his personality, or his way of life, has been that heretofore nearly all efforts at change have been directed to the circumference of the self, so to speak, rather than to the center.
    Maxwell Maltz
    American surgeon and author (1889 - 1975)
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  • Bernard Crick One of the symptoms of a declining social order is that its members have to give most of their time to politics, rather than to the real tasks of economic production, in an attempt to patch up the cracks already appearing from the 'inner contradictions' of such a system.
    Source: In Defence Of Politics Ch. 5, A Defence Of Politics Against Technology, p
    Bernard Crick
    British political theorist (1929 - 2008)
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  • Carla Bley One performer whose band played my music better than I could myself was Art Farmer. He recorded 'Sing Me Softly of the Blues' and 'Ad Infinitum'.
    Carla Bley
    American jazz composer, pianist, organist and bandleader (1936 - )
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  • Rose Macaulay One should, I think, always give children money, for they will spend it for themselves far more profitably than we can ever spend it for them.
    Source: A casual commentary
    Rose Macaulay
    English writer (1881 - 1958)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe One that does not think to highly of himself is more than he thinks.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • John Locke One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant.
    John Locke
    English philosopher (1632 - 1704)
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  • Arthur Levitt One way for investors to protect themselves from a rapid change in the price of a stock is to use a limit order rather than a market order.
    Arthur Levitt
    American SEC chairman (1931 - )
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  • Sophocles One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.
    Sophocles
    Greek poet (496 - 406)
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  • Alexander Chase One who understands much displays a greater simplicity of character than one who understands little.
    Alexander Chase
    American journalist and editor (1926 - )
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  • B. Carroll Reece One who works for his own profit is likely to work hard. One who works for the use of others, without profit to himself, is likely not to work any harder than he must.
    B. Carroll Reece
    American politician (1889 - 1961)
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  • B. C. Forbes One worthwhile task carried to a successful conclusion is better than 50 half-finished tasks
    B. C. Forbes
    American Publisher (1880 - 1954)
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  • Bo Bennett One's work usually occupies more than half of one's waking life. Choosing work that does not bring happiness will lead to a life that is mostly disappointing.
    Source: Year to Success
    Bo Bennett
    American author (1972 - )
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  • Aaron McGruder One, I push my deadlines closer than anybody else, or let's say it this way: I'm really late.
    Aaron McGruder
    American writer, lecturer and producer (1974 - )
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  • Kingsley Amis Only a world without love strikes me as instantly and decisively more terrible than one without music.
    Source: The Amis collection: selected non-fiction (1990)
    Kingsley Amis
    English novelist, poet, critic, and teacher (1922 - 1995)
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  • Oscar Wilde Only mediocrities progress. An artist revolves in a cycle of masterpieces, the first of which is no less perfect than the last.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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