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  • Adlai Stevenson To me, there is something superbly symbolic in the fact that an astronaut, sent up as assistant to a series of computers, found that he worked more accurately and more intelligently than they. Inside the capsule, man is still in charge.
    Adlai Stevenson
    American politician and vice president (1835 - 1914)
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  • Bobby Vinton To me, there was nothing greater than to play for an audience and to entertain people and that has stayed with me all these years.
    Bobby Vinton
    American singer and songwriter (1935 - )
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  • Marilyn French To nourish and raise children against odds is in any time, any place, more valuable than to fix bolts in cars or design nuclear weapons.
    Marilyn French
    American radical feminist author (1929 - 2009)
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  • Ruth Hubbard To overturn orthodoxy is no easier in science than in philosophy, religion, economics, or any of the other disciplines through which we try to comprehend the world and the society in which we live.
    Ruth Hubbard
     
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  • Charles Horton Cooley To persuade is more trouble than to dominate, and the powerful seldom take this trouble if they can avoid it.
    Charles Horton Cooley
    American sociologist (1864 - 1929)
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  • John Churton Collins To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it.
    John Churton Collins
    British literary critic (1848 - 1908)
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  • Henry James To read between the lines was easier than to follow the text.
    Henry James
    American author (1843 - 1916)
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  • Peter Ustinov To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal.
    Peter Ustinov
    British actor, writer, director (1921 - 2004)
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  • Mark Twain To reject awards is another way to accept them with more noise than normal.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Jean Rostand To say of men that they are bad is to say they are worse than we think we are, or worse than the ideal man whose image we have built up on the basis of a certain few.
    Jean Rostand
    French writer (1894 - 1977)
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  • Buzz Aldrin To send humans back to the moon would not be advancing. It would be more than 50 years after the first moon landing when we got there, and we'd probably be welcomed by the Chinese. But we should return to the moon without astronauts and build, with robots, an international lunar base, so that we know how to build a base on Mars robotically.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • Edmund Burke To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • William Blake To the eyes of a miser a guinea is more beautiful than the sun, and a bag worn with the use of money has more beautiful proportions than a vine filled with grapes.
    William Blake
    English poet (1757 - 1827)
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  • Susan B. Anthony To think, I have had more than 60 years of hard struggle for a little liberty, and then to die without it seems so cruel.
    Susan B. Anthony
    American women's rights activist (1820 - 1906)
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  • Robert Louis Stevenson To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
    Source: Virginibus Puerisque (1881) El Dorado
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    Scottish writer and poet (1850 - 1894)
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  • George Earle Buckle To try and change opinion by law is worse than futile.
    George Earle Buckle
    English editor and biographer (1854 - 1935)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe To understand one thing well is better than understanding many things by halves.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • E. M. Cioran To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.
    E. M. Cioran
    French-Romanian philosopher (1911 - 1995)
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  • Queen Elizabeth II To what greater inspiration and counsel can we turn than to the imperishable truth to be found in this treasure house, the Bible?
    Queen Elizabeth II
    Queen of the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand (1926 - 2022)
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  • Miguel de Cervantes To withdraw is not to run away, and to stay is no wise action, when there's more reason to fear than to hope.
    Miguel de Cervantes
    Spanish writer and poet (1547 - 1616)
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