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  • Thomas Carlyle Silence is more eloquent than words.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Brigham Young Silence may be golden, but can you think of a better way to entertain someone than to listen to him?
    Brigham Young
    American Mormon Leader (1801 - 1877)
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  • Frank Moore Colby Sin in this country has been always said to be rather calculating than impulsive.
    Frank Moore Colby
    American Editor, Essayist (1865 - 1925)
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  • Machiavelli Since it is difficult to join them together, it is safer to be feared than to be loved when one of the two must be lacking.
    Machiavelli
    Florentine state philosopher (1469 - 1527)
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  • Bill Kristol Since Ronald Reagan's election in 1980, conservatives of various sorts, and conservatisms of various stripes, have generally been in the ascendancy. And a good thing, too! Conservatives have been right more often than not - and more often than liberals - about most of the important issues of the day.
    Bill Kristol
    American political analyst (1952 - )
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  • Augustus Hare Since the generality of persons act from impulse, much more than from principle, men are neither so good nor so bad as we are apt to think them.
    Augustus Hare
    English writer (1834 - 1903)
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  • Anita Roddick Since the governments are in the pockets of businesses, who's going to control this most powerful institution? Business is more powerful than politics, and it's more powerful than religion. So it's going to have to be the vigilante consumer.
    Anita Roddick
    British businesswoman and human rights activist (1942 - 2007)
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  • John Tillotson Sincerity is like traveling on a plain, beaten road, which commonly brings a man sooner to his journey's end than by-ways, in which men often lose themselves.
    John Tillotson
    British theologist (1630 - 1694)
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  • Charles Haddon Spurgeon Sincerity makes the very least person to be of more value than the most talented hypocrite.
    Charles Haddon Spurgeon
    English Baptist preacher (1834 - 1892)
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  • Billie Holiday Singing songs like 'The Man I Love' or 'Porgy' is no more work than sitting down and eating Chinese roast duck, and I love roast duck.
    Billie Holiday
    American jazz musician and singer-songwriter (1915 - 1959)
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  • George Eliot Sir Joshua would have been glad to take her portrait; and he would have had an easier task than the historian at least in this, that he would not have had to represent the truth of change - only to give stability to one beautiful moment.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • John Donne Sir, more than kisses, letters mingle souls. For, thus friends absent speak.
    John Donne
    English poet (1572 - 1631)
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  • James Fenimore Cooper Slavery is no more sinful, by the Christian code, than it is sinful to wear a whole coat, while another is in tatters, to eat a better meal than a neighbor, or otherwise to enjoy ease and plenty, while our fellow creatures are suffering and in want.
    James Fenimore Cooper
    American writer (1789 - 1851)
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  • Benjamin Franklin Sloth, like rust, consumes faster than labor wears, while the used key is always bright.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Carl Honore Slow travel now rivals the fly-to-Barcelona-for-lunch culture. Advocates savour the journey, travelling by train or boat or bicycle, or even on foot, rather than crammed into an airplane. They take time to plug into the local culture instead of racing through a list of tourist traps.
    Carl Honore
    Canadian journalist (1967 - )
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  • Alighieri Dante Small projects need much more help than great.
    Alighieri Dante
    Durante (Dante) degli Alighieri, Italian philosopher and poet (1265 - 1321)
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  • Doug Horton Smile, it's better than a poke in the eye.
    Doug Horton
    American Protestant clergyman
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  • William S. Burroughs So cheat your landlord if you can and must, but do not try to shortchange the Muse. It cannot be done. You can't fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.
    William S. Burroughs
    American writer and artist (1914 - 1997)
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  • T. S. Eliot So far as we are human, what we do must be either evil or good: so far as we do evil or good, we are human: and it is better, in a paradoxical way, to do evil than to do nothing: at least we exist.
    T. S. Eliot
    British essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic (1888 - 1965)
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  • Aleksander Kwasniewski So I think that I can say, as the President of Poland, we're proud that I am coming from Poland, which is different and what's more important, much better than before.
    Aleksander Kwasniewski
    Polish politician and journalist (1954 - )
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