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  • Cam Newton A person that says, 'Losing is not difficult,' I don't even want to be around that person. And obviously, that person has never won anything relevant in their life.
    Cam Newton
    American football player (1989 - )
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  • B. F. Skinner A person who has been punished is not less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns how to avoid punishment.
    B. F. Skinner
    American psychologist, behaviorist and author (1904 - 1990)
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  • Emily Brontë A person who has not done one half his day's work by ten o'clock, runs a chance of leaving the other half undone.
    Wuthering Heights (1847)
    Emily Brontë
    British writer, poet (1818 - 1848)
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  • Jean de la Bruyère A person's worth in this world is estimated according to the value they put on themselves.
    Jean de la Bruyère
    French writer (1645 - 1696)
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  • Ludwig Wittgenstein A philosopher who is not taking part in discussions is like a boxer who never goes into the ring.
    Ludwig Wittgenstein
    Austrian - English philosopher (1889 - 1951)
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  • Napoleon A picture is worth a thousand words.
    Original: Un croquis vaut mieux qu’un long discours.
    Napoleon
    French Emperor (1769 - 1821)
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  • E. B. White A poet's pleasure is to withhold a little of his meaning, to intensify by mystification. He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove it.
    E. B. White
    American writer (1899 - 1985)
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  • Murray Kempton A political convention is not a place where you can come away with any trace of faith in human nature.
    Murray Kempton
    American journalist
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  • John Jay Chapman A political organization is a transferable commodity. You could not find a better way of killing virtue than by packing it into one of these contraptions which some gang of thieves is sure to find useful.
    John Jay Chapman
    American author (1862 - 1933)
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  • Bernard Crick A politics of vengeance is not politics. Revenge is a recklessness towards the future in a vain attempt to make the present abolish a suffering which is already past.
    In Defence Of Politics Ch. 4, A Defence Of Politics Against Nationalism,
    Bernard Crick
    British political theorist (1929 - 2008)
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  • Joan Didion A pool is, for many of us in the West, a symbol not of affluence but of order, of control over the uncontrollable. A pool is water, made available and useful, and is, as such, infinitely soothing to the western eye.
    Joan Didion
    American Essayist (1934 - 2021)
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  • Herm Albright A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
    Herm Albright
    German-American painter and columnist (1876 - 1944)
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  • James A. Garfield A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck.
    James A. Garfield
    President of the USA (1831 - 1881)
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  • Lyndon B. Johnson A president's hardest task is not to do what is right, but to know what is right.
    Lyndon B. Johnson
    American president (1908 - 1973)
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  • B. C. Forbes A price has to be paid for success. Almost invariably those who have reached the summits worked harder and longer, studied and planned more assiduously, practiced more self-denial, overcame more difficulties than those of us who have not risen so far.
    B. C. Forbes
    American Publisher (1880 - 1954)
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  • Winston Churchill A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Miguel de Cervantes A private sin is not so prejudicial in this world, as a public indecency.
    Miguel de Cervantes
    Spanish writer and poet (1547 - 1616)
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  • Bertrand Russell A process which led from the amoebae to man appeared to the philosophers to be obviously a progress - though whether the amoebae would agree with this opinion is not known.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Lord Northcliffe A professional whose job it is to explain to others what it personally does not understand.
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  • Paul Bourget A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another.
    Paul Bourget
    French writer (1852 - 1935)
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