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  • Bernard Mandeville Knowledge both enlarges and multiplies our Desires, and the fewer things a Man wishes for, the more easily his Necessities may be supply'd.
    Source: The Fable of the Bees An Essay on Charity, and Charity-Schools, p. 328
    Bernard Mandeville
    British writer and artist (1670 - 1733)
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  • Adam Smith Labour was the first price, the original purchase - money that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labour, that all wealth of the world was originally purchased.
    Adam Smith
    Scottish Economist (1723 - 1790)
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  • Bryan Robson Last season when things weren't working out, I thought we needed a different voice around the place.
    Bryan Robson
    English football manager and player (1957 - )
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  • Douglas Macarthur Last, but by no means least, courage-moral courage, the courage of one's convictions, the courage to see things through. The world ;is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It's the age-old struggle-the roar of the crowd on one side and the voice of your ;conscience on the other.
    Douglas Macarthur
    American general in WO II (1880 - 1964)
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  • Anita Borg Leaders of the future will have to be visionary and be able to bring people in - real communicators. These are things that women bring to leadership and executive positions, and it's going to be incredibly valuable and incredibly in demand.
    Anita Borg
    American computer scientist (1949 - 2003)
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  • Bre Pettis Learn how a 3D printer works. Get inspired. Make your own stuff. It is a wonderful time to be innovative. Connect things together. If you're into electronics, get an Arduino.
    Bre Pettis
    American entrepreneur and video blogger
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  • Lyn Karol Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
    Lyn Karol
     
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  • Vernon Howard Learn to see things as they really are, not as we imagine they are.
    Vernon Howard
    Swiss actor (1918 - 1992)
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  • Bethany Hamilton Learning how to deal with people and their reactions to my life is one of the most challenging things... people staring at me, people asking rude questions, dealing with media, stuff like that.
    Bethany Hamilton
    American professional surfer (1990 - )
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  • Ben Simmons LeBron's been like a big brother to me, watching me play and giving me pointers on just little things. I really look up to him.
    Ben Simmons
    Australian basketball player (1996 - )
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  • Campbell Brown Lester is the Rock of Gibraltar. Nothing can rattle him. I am not. I was always flying off the handle about things. And the one person who could calm me down and make me realize that none of this silliness mattered was Lester Holt.
    Campbell Brown
    American journalist (1968 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Let a man then know his worth, and keep things under his feet. Let him not peep or steal, or skulk up and down with the air of a charity-boy, a bastard, or an interloper.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Bram Stoker Let me be accurate in everything, for though you and I have seen some strange things together, you may at the first think that I, Van Helsing, am mad. That the many horrors and the so long strain on nerves has at the last turn my brain.
    Source: Dracula
    Bram Stoker
    Irish author (1847 - 1912)
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  • Bertolt Brecht Let nothing be called natural
    In an age of bloody confusion,
    Ordered disorder, planned caprice,
    And dehumanized humanity, lest all things
    Be held unalterable!
    Source: The Exception and the Rule
    Bertolt Brecht
    German - Austrian writer (1898 - 1956)
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  • Jim Rohn Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else's hands, but not you.
    Jim Rohn
    American entrepreneur, author and motivational speaker (1930 - 2009)
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  • Mark Twain Let us consider that we are all partially insane. It will explain us to each other; it will unriddle many riddles; it will make clear and simple many things which are involved in haunting and harassing difficulties and obscurities now.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Peter Marshall Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen.
    Peter Marshall
    Scots-American preacher (1902 - 1949)
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  • John Henry Newman Let us take things as we find them: let us not attempt to distort them into what they are not.
    Source: Oxford University sermons
    John Henry Newman
    English theologian (1801 - 1890)
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  • Barbara Bush Life has changed enormously, and I hope - I hope more people read good things.
    Barbara Bush
    American First Lady (1925 - 2018)
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  • Abdul Kalam Life is a difficult game. You can win it only by retaining your birthright to be a person. And to retain this right, you will have to be willing to take the social or external risks involved in ignoring pressures to do things the way others say they should be done.
    Source: Wings of Fire
    Abdul Kalam
    11th President of India (1931 - 2015)
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