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  • Adam Smith The real tragedy of the poor is the poverty of their aspirations.
    Adam Smith
    Scottish Economist (1723 - 1790)
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  • Ben Bradlee The really tough thing would have been to decide to take Woodward and Bernstein off the story. They were carrying the coal for us - in that their stories were right.
    Ben Bradlee
    American journalist (1921 - 2014)
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  • Bjork The reason I do photographs is to help people understand my music, so it's very important that I am the same, emotionally, in the photographs as in the music. Most people's eyes are much better developed than their ears. If they see a certain emotion in the photograph, then they'll understand the music.
    Bjork
    Icelandic singer, songwriter and actress (1965 - )
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  • Alice Miller The reason why parents mistreat their children has less to do with character and temperament than with the fact that they were mistreated themselves and were not permitted to defend themselves.
    Alice Miller
    Polish-born Swiss psychologist (1923 - 2010)
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  • Jonathan Swift The reason why so few marriages are happy, is because young ladies spend their time in making nets, not in making cages.
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • Eustace Budgell The reason why we see that people of the greatest capacity are not rich, is either they despise wealth in comparison to something else, or, they are not content in getting an estate, unless they may do it in their own way, while at the same time enjoying all the pleasures and gratitude's of life.
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  • Arthur Erickson The Renaissance is studded by the names of the artists and architects, with their creations recorded as great historical events.
    Arthur Erickson
    Canadian architect and urban (1924 - 2009)
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  • Beck The repercussions of what you put out and what people gravitate to in your music never registered at all. I never had that thing that maybe other bands have - a specific idea of what they are and what their sound is.
    Beck
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1970 - )
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  • Will Rogers The Republicans have their splits right after election and Democrats have theirs just before an election.
    Will Rogers
    American actor and humorist (1879 - 1935)
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  • Karl Marx The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.
    Karl Marx
    German economist and state philosopher (1818 - 1883)
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  • Billy Sunday The rivers of America will run with blood filled to their banks before we will submit to them taking the Bible out of our schools.
    As quoted in "Leaving the fold: testimonies of former fundamentalists" by Edward T. Babinski, Prometheus Books, 1995, p. 435
    Billy Sunday
    American athlete and evangelist (1862 - 1935)
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  • Lord Thomas Dewar The road to success is filled with women pushing their husbands along.
    Lord Thomas Dewar
    Scottish businessman (1864 - 1930)
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  • Ben Carson The Roman Empire was very, very much like us. They lost their moral core, their sense of values in terms of who they were. And after all of those things converged together, they just went right down the tubes very quickly.
    Ben Carson
    American politician, and author (1951 - )
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  • A. N. Wilson The Royal Family are not like you and me. They live in houses so big that you can walk round all day and never need to meet your spouse. The Queen and Prince Philip have never shared a bedroom in their lives. They don't even have breakfast together.
    A. N. Wilson
    English writer and columnist (1950 - )
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  • Blaise Pascal The same meaning changes with the words which express it. Meanings receive their dignity from words instead of giving it to them.
    Pensees (1669)
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Adam Clarke The Scriptures of the Old and New Testament, said an eminent scholar, have God for their Author, the Salvation of mankind for their end, and Truth without any mixture of error for their matter.
    Adam Clarke
    British Methodist theologian (1760 - 1832)
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  • William O. Douglas The search for static security - in the law and elsewhere - is misguided. The fact is security can only be achieved through constant change, adapting old ideas that have outlived their usefulness to current facts.
    William O. Douglas
    American jurist and politician (1898 - 1980)
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  • James A. Froude The secret of a person's nature lies in their religion and what they really believes about the world and their place in it.
    James A. Froude
    British Historian (1818 - 1894)
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  • Casey Stengel The secret of successful managing is to keep the five guys who hate you away from the four guys who haven't made up their minds.
    Casey Stengel
    American basketbal player and manager (1890 - 1975)
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  • Ben Nelson The security of our nation depends on the men and women who are willing to sacrifice their safety, and possibly their lives, to protect the freedoms the rest of us enjoy.
    Ben Nelson
    American politician, businessman and lawyer (1941 - )
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