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  • Friedrich von Schiller A gloomy guest fits not a wedding feast.
    Friedrich von Schiller
    German poet and playwright (1759 - 1805)
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  • Bruce Lee A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.
    Bruce Lee
    Chinese-American Actor, Director, Author, Martial Artist (1940 - 1973)
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  • Bernice Fitz-Gibbon A good ad should be like a good sermon: It must not only comfort the afflicted, it also must afflict the comfortable.
    Macys, Gimbels, and Me: How to Earn $90,000 a Year in Retail Advertising
    Bernice Fitz-Gibbon
    American advertising executive
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  • Charles Haddon Spurgeon A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you, and were helped by you, will remember you when forget-me-nots are withered. Carve your name on hearts, and not on marble
    Charles Haddon Spurgeon
    English Baptist preacher (1834 - 1892)
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  • Iris Murdoch A good man often appears gauche simply because he does not take advantage of the myriad mean little chances of making himself look stylish. Preferring truth to form, he is not constantly at work upon the façade of his appearance.
    Iris Murdoch
    Anglo-Irish novelist and philosopher (1919 - 1999)
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  • Otto Von Bismarck A government must not waiver once it has chosen it's course. It must not look to the left or right but go forward.
    Otto Von Bismarck
    German statesman and prime minister (1815 - 1898)
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  • Bertrand Russell A hallucination is a fact, not an error; what is erroneous is a judgment based upon it.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Golda Meir A leader who doesn't hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.
    Golda Meir
    Prime Minister of Israel (1898 - 1978)
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  • Thomas Paine A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason.
    Thomas Paine
    English-born American political activist, philosopher, political theor (1737 - 1809)
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  • Abbott Eliot Kittredge A love to Christ which is so cowardly and selfish that it is unwilling to proclaim by a public confession its faith in Him who hung before all the world crucified for sinners, is a love which is hardly worth the name.
    Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
    Abbott Eliot Kittredge
    American minister (1834 - 1912)
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  • Ernest Hemingway A man can be destroyed but not defeated.
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • Jan Christian Smuts A man is not defeated by his opponents but by himself.
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  • Marcus Aurelius A man should be upright, not be kept upright.
    Marcus Aurelius
    Roman emperor (121 - 180)
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  • Confucius A man who does not think and plan long ahead will find trouble right at his door.
    Confucius
    Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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  • John Keats A man's life of any worth is a continual allegory.
    John Keats
    English poet (1795 - 1821)
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  • Henry David Thoreau A minority is powerless while it conforms to the majority; it is not even a minority then; but it is irresistible when it clogs by its whole weight.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Bertrand Russell A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Horace A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.
    Horace
    Roman poet
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  • Shawn McCabe A snake is afraid of a mongoes, a mongoes is afraid of a dog, a dog is
    afraid of man, but why is man not afraid of God?
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