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  • Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle In vain we shall penetrate more and more deeply the secrets of the structure of the human body, we shall not dupe nature; we shall die as usual.
    Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle
    French author (1657 - 1757)
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  • Boris Pasternak In view of the meaning given to this honor in the community to which I belong, I should abstain from the undeserved prize that has been awarded to me. Do not meet my voluntary refusal with ill will.
    Boris Pasternak
    Russian writer (1890 - 1960)
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  • Cal Thomas In violent streets and broken homes, the cry of anguished souls is not for more laws but for more conscience and character.
    Cal Thomas
    American columnist and author (1942 - )
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  • Winston Churchill In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Alexander Pope In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Brian P. Cleary In writing I found something I could do at least as well as my peers, if not better.
    Brian P. Cleary
    American humorist and poet (1959 - )
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  • Anthony J. D'Angelo In your thirst for knowledge, be sure not to drown in all the information.
    Anthony J. D'Angelo
    American writer
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  • Dale Carnegie Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.
    Dale Carnegie
    American writer and lecturer (1888 - 1955)
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  • Napoleon Incidents should not govern policy; but, policy incidents.
    Napoleon
    French Emperor (1769 - 1821)
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  • Mahatma Gandhi Increase of material comforts, it may be generally laid down, does not in any way whatsoever conduce to moral growth.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • Richard of Saint Victor Indeed many things which we shall not be able to discover either by the experiment of works or by the investigations of reason we shall deserve to be taught by importunate prayer, by the revelation of divine inspiration.
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  • Bell Hooks Indeed much of the literature written about black folks in the post-civil rights era emphasized the need for jobs. Material advancement was deemed the pressing agenda. Mental health concerns were not a high priority. - From (2003) Rock My Soul
    Bell Hooks
    American author, professor, feminist (born G.J.Watkins) (1952 - 2021)
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  • Aslan Maskhadov Independence is not a whim or an ambition. It is the necessary condition of our survival as an ethnic group.
    Aslan Maskhadov
    Chechen politician (1951 - 2005)
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  • Bliss Carman Indifference may not wreck a man's life at any one turn, but it will destroy him with a kind of dry-rot in the long run.
    Bliss Carman
    Canadian poet (1861 - 1929)
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  • Bertrand Russell Indignation is a submission of our thoughts, but not of our desires.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Barbara Ehrenreich Individually the poor are not too tempting to thieves, for obvious reasons. Mug a banker and you might score a wallet containing a month's rent. Mug a janitor and you will be lucky to get away with bus fare to flee the crime scene.
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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  • H. Rap Brown Individuals do not create rebellions; conditions do.
    H. Rap Brown
    American activist (1943 - )
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  • Akhenaton Indulge not thyself in the passion of anger; it is whetting a sword to wound thine own breast, or murder thy friend.
    Akhenaton
    Egyptian King, Monotheist (1372 - 1337)
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  • Benjamin Franklin Industry need not wish.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Calvin Coolidge Industry, thrift and self-control are not sought because they create wealth, but because they create character.
    Calvin Coolidge
    American president (1872 - 1933)
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