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  • Douglas Adams He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife.
    Douglas Adams
    British science-fiction writer (1952 - 2001)
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  • Abraham Lincoln He reminds me of the man who murdered both his parents, and then when the sentence was about to be pronounced, pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was orphan.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson He then learns that in going down into the secrets of his own mind he has descended into the secrets of all minds.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg He was then in his fifty-fourth year, when even in the case of poets reason and passion begin to discuss a peace treaty and usually conclude it not very long afterwards.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Ivern Ball He's the type who makes mountains out of molehills and then sells climbing equipment.
    Ivern Ball
    American author (1926 - 1992)
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  • Carl Hiaasen Here's my rule: You always want to pay cash for your own books, because if they look at the name on the credit card and then they look at the name on the book jacket, then there's this look of such profound sympathy for you that you had to resort to this. It really is withering.
    Carl Hiaasen
    American writer, author and journalist (1953 - )
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  • Beth Ditto High school wasn't so bad though because, by then, I had worked out that there were far more nerdy kids and poor kids than there were rich, popular kids, so, at the very least, we had them outnumbered.
    Beth Ditto
    American singer-songwriter and actress (1981 - )
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  • Alan Bean History has spurts and then is steady, and then maybe even backing up a step, and then forward again.
    Alan Bean
    American naval officer and aviator (1932 - 2018)
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  • Bryan Fuller Horror films have always been quite operatic for me. I always sort of scratch my head at people's offense to them? If you don't get them, and you don't like them, then don't watch them.
    Bryan Fuller
    American television writer and producer (1969 - )
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  • Birch Bayh How come life is so important in the nine months before birth, but then we sort of forget about the importance, we're not worried about whether that baby lives in poverty once he or she is born.
    Birch Bayh
    American politician (1928 - 2019)
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  • Bob Uecker How do you catch a knuckleball? You wait until it stops rolling, then go pick it up.
    Bob Uecker
    American Major League Baseball (MLB) player (1934 - )
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  • Bill Hybels How do you pray a prayer so filled with faith that it can move a mountain? By shifting your focus from the size of your mountain to the sufficiency of the Mountain Mover and then stepping forward in obedience.
    Too Busy Not to Pray
    Bill Hybels
    American church figure and author (1951 - )
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe How shall we learn to know ourselves? By reflection? Never; but only through action. Strive to do thy duty; then you shall know what is in thee.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Auberon Herbert How, then, can the rights of three men exceed the rights of two men? In what possible way can the rights of three men absorb the rights of two men, and make them as if they had never existed.
    Auberon Herbert
    British writer, theorist, philosopher
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  • Andrew Wiles However impenetrable it seems, if you don't try it, then you can never do it.
    Andrew Wiles
    English mathematician (1953 - )
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  • James Thurber Human Dignity has gleamed only now and then and here and there, in lonely splendor, throughout the ages, a hope of the better men, never an achievement of the majority.
    James Thurber
    American cartoonist (1894 - 1961)
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  • Bill Gates I actually thought that it would be a little confusing during the same period of your life to be in one meeting when you're trying to make money, and then go to another meeting where you're giving it away.
    Interview on "NOW" with Bill Moyers on May 9, 2003
    Bill Gates
    American business magnate, investor, author and philanthropist (1955 - )
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  • Les Brown I advise you to say your dream is possible and then overcome all inconveniences, ignore all the hassles and take a running leap through the hoop, even if it is in flames.
    Les Brown
    American motivational speaker, author and radio DJ (1945 - )
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  • Lily Tomlin I always wondered why somebody doesn't do something about that. Then I realized I was somebody.
    Lily Tomlin
    American Comedienne (1939 - )
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  • Arne Jacobsen I am going to be working on bathroom fittings for a company in the USA, and then I thought it was appropriate to simplify the fittings and, thus, lowering the cost.
    Arne Jacobsen
    Danish architect and designer (1902 - 1971)
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