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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Charles F. Kettering Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax.
    Charles F. Kettering
    American inventor (1876 - 1958)
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  • Oscar Wilde Thinking is the most unhealthy thing in the world, and people die of it just as they die of any other disease. Fortunately, in England at any rate, thought is not catching. Our splendid physique as a people is entirely due to our national stupidity.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Albert Claude This attempt to isolate cell constituents might have been a failure if they had been destroyed by the relative brutality of the technique employed. But this did not happen.
    Albert Claude
    Belgian-American cell biologist and doctor (1899 - 1983)
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  • Richard Buckminster Fuller This book is written with the conviction that there are no 'good' or 'bad' people, no matter how offensive or eccentric to society they may seem... You and I didn't design people. God designed people. What I am trying to do is to discover why God included humans in Universe.
    Critical Path (1981)
    Richard Buckminster Fuller
    American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, and inventor (1895 - 1983)
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  • Adam Sandler This character feels so much like my brother. He has two children. He has a wife. He works with me. He chooses to stay in New Hampshire because he wants his kids to grow up in the school they started with. He doesn't want them to lose friends. He is his family's hero.
    Adam Sandler
    American actor, comedian, and filmmaker (1966 - )
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  • Byron Dorgan This country is about, in my judgment, aggressive, open debate. There is an old saying: When everyone is thinking the same thing, no one is thinking very much.
    Byron Dorgan
    American author, businessman (1942 - )
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  • Abraham Lincoln This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can excercise their constitutional right of amending it, or excercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Thomas E. Lawrence This death's livery which walled its bearers from ordinary life was sign that they have sold their wills and bodies to the State: and contracted themselves into a service not the less abject for that its beginning was voluntary.
    Thomas E. Lawrence
    British archaeologist, military officer, diplomat, and writer (1888 - 1935)
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  • Horace This is a fault common to all singers, that among their friends they will never sing when they are asked; unasked, they will never desist.
    Horace
    Roman poet
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  • Art Buchwald This is a wonderful way to celebrate an 80th birthday... I wanted to be 65 again, but they wouldn't let me - Homeland Security.
    Art Buchwald
    American humorist (1925 - 2007)
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  • Bernard Goldberg This is the essence of the problem. To Dan Rather and to a lot of other powerful members of the chattering class, that which is right of center is conservative. That which is left of center is middle of the road. No wonder they can't recognize their own bias.
    Bias: A CBS Insider Exposes How the Media Distort the News
    Bernard Goldberg
    American author and journalist (1945 - )
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  • Rainer Maria Rilke This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more they possess.
    Rainer Maria Rilke
    German poet (1875 - 1926)
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  • Aristotle This is the reason why mothers are more devoted to their children than fathers: it is that they suffer more in giving them birth and are more certain that they are their own.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Michael Korda This is true enough, but success is the next best thing to happiness, and if you can't be happy as a success, it's very unlikely that you would find a deeper, truer happiness in failure.
    Michael Korda
    American publisher (1933 - )
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  • Bruce Springsteen This music is forever for me. It's the stage thing, that rush moment that you live for. It never lasts, but that's what you live for.
    Time magazine 27 October 1975
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Carl Sagan This planet is run by crazy people. Remember what they have to do to get where they are. Their perspective is so narrow, so...brief. A few years. In the best of them a few decades. They care only about the time they are in power.
    Contact (1985) Ch. 23 (p. 403)
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Elizabeth Barrett Browning This race is never grateful: from the first, One fills their cup at supper with pure wine, Which back they give at cross-time on a sponge, In bitter vinegar.
    Elizabeth Barrett Browning
    English poet (1806 - 1861)
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  • Bill Viola This thing called the camera, that takes everything in equally, taught me a lot about how to see.
    Bill Viola
    American video artist (1951 - )
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  • Doris Lessing This world is run by people who know how to do things. They know how things work. They are equipped. Up there, there's a layer of people who run everything. But we -we're just peasants. We don't understand what's going on, and we can't do anything.
    Doris Lessing
    British novelist (1919 - 2013)
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