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  • Blaise Pascal How useless is painting, which attracts admiration by the resemblance of things, the originals of which we do not admire!
    Pensees (1669)
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Benjamin E. Mays However hard the road, however difficult today, tomorrow things will be better. Tomorrow may not be better, but we must believe that it will be.
    Benjamin E. Mays
    American Baptist minister and civil rights leader (1894 - 1984)
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  • Buddha However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • Dhammapada However many holy words you read, however many you speak, What good will they do you if you do not act upon them?
    Dhammapada
    collection of sayings of the Buddha in verse form
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  • Henry David Thoreau However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are the richest.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Eric Hoffer However much we guard ourselves against it, we tend to shape ourselves in the image others have of us. It is not so much the example of others we imitate, as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Bob Riley However, before we make the mistake of patting ourselves on the back, let's remember: government does not create jobs. It only helps create the conditions that make jobs more or less likely. The real credit for our economic renewal belongs to the people of Alabama .
    Bob Riley
    American politician (1944 - )
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  • Bob Filner However, don't let these statistics mislead you, gang violence is not limited to California and or big urban areas - that might have been true a while ago but it is no longer the case today.
    Bob Filner
    American politician (1942 - )
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  • Oscar Wilde However, it is always nice to be expected, and not to arrive.
    An Ideal Husband (1895)
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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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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  • Bill Shuster However, the Department of Defense treats these detainees in accord with the Geneva Convention, even though that is not required because of the inhumane methods used by these killers.
    Bill Shuster
    American politician and lobbyist (1961 - )
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  • Iris Murdoch Human affairs are not serious, but they have to be taken seriously.
    Iris Murdoch
    Anglo-Irish novelist and philosopher (1919 - 1999)
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  • Abraham Joshua Heschel Human being is both being in the world and living in the world. Living involves responsible understanding of one's role in relation to all other beings. For living is not being in itself, but living of the world, affecting, exploiting, consuming, comprehending, deriving, depriving.
    Who Is Man? (1965)
    Abraham Joshua Heschel
    Polish-American rabbi (1907 - 1972)
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  • Benjamin Franklin Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Franklin D. Roosevelt Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel in order to be tough.
    Franklin D. Roosevelt
    American statesman (1882 - 1945)
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  • Primo Levi Human memory is a marvelous but fallacious instrument. The memories which lie within us are not carved in stone; not only do they tend to become erased as the years go by, but often they change, or even increase by incorporating extraneous features.
    Primo Levi
    Italian chemist, author (1919 - 1987)
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  • Thomas Paine Human nature is not of itself vicious.
    Thomas Paine
    English-born American political activist, philosopher, political theor (1737 - 1809)
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  • Amelia E. Barr Human relations are built on feeling, not on reason or knowledge. And feeling is not an exact science; like all spiritual qualities, it has the vagueness of greatness about it.
    Amelia E. Barr
    British novelist and teacher (1831 - 1919)
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  • Barbara Block Human technology has made it to Mars. We are transmitting gorgeous pictures from it. Yet we have not explored our own planet. Two-thirds of it is covered with oceans that are still mysterious places.
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  • Tom Robbins Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
    Tom Robbins
    American novelist (1932 - )
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