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  • Mignon McLaughlin No matter how brilliantly an idea is stated, we will not really be moved unless we have already half thought of it ourselves.
    The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981)
    Mignon McLaughlin
    American writer, editor (1913 - 1983)
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  • Bill Cosby No matter how calmly you try to referee, parenting will eventually produce bizarre behavior, and I'm not talking about the kids. Their behavior is always normal.
    Bill Cosby
    American actor, comedian, producer (1937 - )
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  • William James No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess, and no matter how good one's sentiments may be, if one has not taken advantage of every concrete opportunity to act, one's character may remain entirely unaffected for the better.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Bert McCracken No matter how many times people try to pick my lyrics apart... nobody will really understand what these songs truly mean to me because I would rather not get into it.
    Bert McCracken
    American singer (1982 - )
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  • Bill Parcells No matter how much you've won, no matter how many games, no matter how many championships, no matter how many Super Bowls, you're not winning now, so you stink.
    Bill Parcells
    American coach in the NFL (1941 - )
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  • Charles Horton Cooley No matter what a man does, he is not fully sane or human unless there is a spirit of freedom in him, a soul unconfined by purpose and larger than the practicable world.
    Charles Horton Cooley
    American sociologist (1864 - 1929)
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  • Henry Ward Beecher No matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy the sunlight today, mix good cheer with friends today, enjoy it and bless God for it. Do not look back on happiness - or dream of it in the future. You are only sure of today; do not let yourself be cheated out of it.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Avi Arad No one bothered reading the books and understanding - and again, I'm not being high-falutin' about it - but I think our books are great literature with great metaphors of real life dealing with fears and hopes.
    Avi Arad
    Israeli-American businessman (1948 - )
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  • Paul Gallico No one can be as calculatedly rude as the British, which amazes Americans, who do not understand studied insult and can only offer abuse as a substitute.
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  • Bertolt Brecht No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.
    Bertolt Brecht
    German - Austrian writer (1898 - 1956)
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  • André Maurois No one can be profoundly original who does not avoid eccentricity.
    André Maurois
    French writer (ps. van mile Herzog) (1885 - 1967)
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  • Plautus No one can be so welcome a guest that he will not annoy his host after three days.
    Plautus
    Roman comic poet (250 - 184)
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  • Peace Pilgrim No one can find inner peace except by working, not in a self- centered way, but for the whole human family.
    Peace Pilgrim
    American activist, mystic and pacifist
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  • Publilius Syrus No one ever lost his honor, except he who had it not.
    Publilius Syrus
    Syrian poet (85 - 43)
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  • Claudius No one is free who does not lord over himself.
    Claudius
    Roman emperor (10 - 54)
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  • Blaise Pascal No one is offended at not seeing everything; but one does not like to be mistaken, and that perhaps arises from the fact that man naturally cannot see everything, and that naturally he cannot err in the side he looks at, since the perceptions of our senses are always true.
    Pensees (1669)
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • John Mason Brown No one is worthy of a good home here or in heaven that is not willing to be in peril for a good cause.
    John Mason Brown
    American drama critic and author (1900 - 1969)
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  • Charles Haddon Spurgeon No one knows who is listening, say nothing you would not wish put in the newspapers.
    Charles Haddon Spurgeon
    English Baptist preacher (1834 - 1892)
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  • George Sand No one makes a revolution by himself; and there are some revolutions which humanity accomplishes without quite knowing how, because it is everybody who takes them in hand.
    George Sand
    French writer (1804 - 1876)
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