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  • Cullen Hightower A true measure of your worth includes all the benefits others have gained from your success.
    Cullen Hightower
    American quotation and quip writer (1923 - 2008)
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  • Ansel Adams A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words.
    Ansel Adams
    American landscape photographer and environmentalist (1902 - 1984)
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  • Jean de la Bruyère A vain man finds it wise to speak good or ill of himself; a modest man does not talk of himself.
    Jean de la Bruyère
    French writer (1645 - 1696)
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  • Samuel Goldwyn A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on.
    Samuel Goldwyn
    American producer (1882 - 1974)
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  • Annie Leibovitz A very subtle difference can make the picture or not.
    Annie Leibovitz
    American portrait photographer (1949 - )
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  • Charles Haddon Spurgeon A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth.
    Charles Haddon Spurgeon
    English Baptist preacher (1834 - 1892)
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  • C. V. Raman A voyage to Europe in the summer of 1921 gave me the first opportunity of observing the wonderful blue opalescence of the Mediterranean Sea. It seemed not unlikely that the phenomenon owed its origin to the scattering of sunlight by the molecules of the water.
    C. V. Raman
    Indian physicist (1888 - 1970)
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  • Ben Horowitz A wartime C.E.O. may not delegate. They make every decision based on the next product release. They may use a lot of profanity.
    Ben Horowitz
    American businessman, investor, blogger, and author (1966 - )
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  • Tad Williams A well-aimed spear is worth three.
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  • William Hazlitt A Whig is properly what is called a Trimmer - that is, a coward to both sides of the question, who dare not be a knave nor an honest man, but is a sort of whiffing, shuffling, cunning, silly, contemptible, unmeaning negation of the two.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Mary Baker Eddy A wicked mortal is not the idea of God. He is little else than the expression of error. To suppose that sin, lust, hatred, envy, hypocrisy, revenge, have life abiding in them, is a terrible mistake. Life and Life's idea, Truth and Truth's idea, never make men sick, sinful, or mortal.
    Mary Baker Eddy
    American founder of the Christian Science Church (1821 - 1910)
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  • Reinhold Niebuhr A wise architect observed that you could break the laws of architectural art provided you had mastered them first. That would apply to religion as well as to art. Ignorance of the past does not guarantee freedom from its imperfections.
    Reinhold Niebuhr
    American theologist, historian (1892 - 1971)
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  • Machiavelli A wise man will see to it that his acts always seem voluntary and not done by compulsion, however much he may be compelled by necessity.
    Machiavelli
    Florentine state philosopher (1469 - 1527)
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  • David Seabury A wise unselfishness is not a surrender of yourself to the wishes of anyone, but only to the best discoverable course of action.
    David Seabury
    American psychologist, author, and lecturer (1885 - 1960)
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  • Alice Stone Blackwell A woman finds the natural lay of the land almost unconsciously; and not feeling it incumbent on her to be guide and philosopher to any successor, she takes little pains to mark the route by which she is making her ascent.
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  • Abraham Lincoln A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Marcel Proust A woman one loves rarely suffices for all our needs, so we deceive her with another whom we do not love.
    Marcel Proust
    French writer and critic (1871 - 1922)
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  • Barbara Cartland A woman should say: "Have I made him happy? Is he satisfied? Does he love me more than he loved me before? Is he likely to go to bed with another woman?" If he does, then it's the wife's fault because she is not trying to make him happy.
    Barbara Cartland
    English author of romance novels (1901 - 2000)
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  • Barbara Cartland A woman should say: 'Have I made him happy? Is he satisfied? Does he love me more than he loved me before? Is he likely to go to bed with another woman?' If he does, then it's the wife's fault because she is not trying to make him happy.
    Barbara Cartland
    English author of romance novels (1901 - 2000)
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  • Anthony Trollope A woman's life is not perfect or whole till she has added herself to a husband. Nor is a man's life perfect or whole till he has added to himself a wife.
    Anthony Trollope
    British writer (1815 - 1882)
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