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  • George D. Prentice A friend you have to buy won't be worth what you pay for him.
    George D. Prentice
    American newspaper editor (1802 - 1870)
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  • E. M. Forster A funeral is not death, any more than baptism is birth or marriage union. All three are the clumsy devices, coming now too late, now too early, by which Society would register the quick motions of man.
    E. M. Forster
    English novelist, short story writer, essayist and librettist (1879 - 1970)
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  • Algernon Sydney A general presumption that Icings will govern well, is not a sufficient security to the People... those who subjected themselves to the will of a man were governed by a beast.
    Algernon Sydney
    English politician (1623 - 1683)
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  • Boutros Boutros-Ghali A genocide in Africa has not received the same attention that genocide in Europe or genocide in Turkey or genocide in other part of the world. There is still this kind of basic discrimination against the African people and the African problems.
    Boutros Boutros-Ghali
    Egyptian politician and diplomat (1922 - 2016)
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  • Quentin Crisp A gentleman doesn't pounce he glides. If a woman sits on a piece of furniture which permits your sitting beside her, you are free to regard this as an invitation, though not an unequivocal one.
    Quentin Crisp
    English writer and actor (1908 - 1999)
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  • William Butler Yeats A gentleman is a man whose principal ideas are not connected with his personal needs and his personal succes.
    William Butler Yeats
    Irish poet (1865 - 1939)
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  • Frederick Douglas A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
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  • Seneca A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Betty Friedan A girl should not expect special privileges because of her sex but neither should she 'adjust' to prejudice and discrimination.
    The Feminine Mystique Ch. 1 The Problem That Has No Name
    Betty Friedan
    American feministisch writer (1921 - 2006)
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  • Igor Stravinsky A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
    Igor Stravinsky
    Russian composer (1882 - 1971)
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  • John Mason Brown A good conversationalist is not one who remembers what was said, but says what someone wants to remember.
    John Mason Brown
    American drama critic and author (1900 - 1969)
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  • Kenneth Tynan A good drama critic is one who perceives what is happening in the theatre of his time. A great drama critic also perceives what is not happening.
    Kenneth Tynan
    English theater critic and writer (1927 - 1980)
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  • Virginia Woolf A good essay must have this permanent quality about it; it must draw its curtain round us, but it must be a curtain that shuts us in not out.
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Alfred Hitchcock A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it.
    Alfred Hitchcock
    English moviedirector (1899 - 1980)
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  • A. Brisbane A good friend can tell you what is the matter with you in a minute. He may not seem such a good friend after telling.
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  • Wilson Mizner A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he knows something.
    Wilson Mizner
    American Author (1876 - 1933)
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  • Bruce Lee A good martial artist does not become tense, but ready. Not thinking, yet not dreaming. Ready for whatever may come. When the opponent expands, I contract; and when he contracts, I expand. And when there is an opportunity, I do not hit, it hits all by itself.
    Bruce Lee: Enter the Dragon (1973)
    Bruce Lee
    Chinese-American Actor, Director, Author, Martial Artist (1940 - 1973)
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  • Frank Crane A good motto is: Use friendliness but do not use your friends.
    Frank Crane
    American actor
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  • Ansel Adams A good photograph is knowing where to stand.
    Ansel Adams
    American landscape photographer and environmentalist (1902 - 1984)
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  • John Milton A good principle not rightly understood may prove as hurtful as a bad.
    John Milton
    English poet, polemicist and man of letters (1608 - 1674)
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