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  • Doug Larson The reason people blame things on previous generations is that there's only one other choice.
    Doug Larson
    American columnist and editor (1926 - 2017)
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  • John Keats The roaring of the wind is my wife and the stars through the window pane are my children. The mighty abstract idea I have of beauty in all things stifles the more divided and minute domestic happiness.
    John Keats
    English poet (1795 - 1821)
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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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  • Dale Carnegie The royal road to a man's heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.
    Dale Carnegie
    American writer and lecturer (1888 - 1955)
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  • Brendan Myers The sacred, I shall say, is that which acts as your partner in the search for the highest and deepest things: the real, the true, the good, and the beautiful. The name I'd like to give to the kind of relationship that gives us a chance to find such things is a 'circle of meaning.'
    Brendan Myers
    Canadian philosopher and author (1974 - )
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  • Bertrand Russell The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Joan Didion The secret point of money and power in America is neither the things that money can buy nor power for power's sake but absolute personal freedom, mobility, privacy.
    Source: Slouching Towards Bethlehem (2013) 57
    Joan Didion
    American Essayist (1934 - 2021)
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  • Thomas Hobbes The secret thoughts of a man run over all things, holy, profane, clean, obscene, grave, and light, without shame or blame.
    Thomas Hobbes
    British philosopher (1588 - 1679)
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  • Bo Bennett The secret to having everything you want out of life is the realization that you really don't want most of the things you think you want.
    Bo Bennett
    American author (1972 - )
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  • Alice Meynell The sense of humor has other things to do than to make itself conspicuous in the act of laughter.
    Alice Meynell
    British poet, writer (1847 - 1922)
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld The shame that arises from praise which we do not deserve often makes us do things we should otherwise never have attempted.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • S. Smiles The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at once.
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  • Richard Bach The simplest things are often the truest.
    Richard Bach
    American author (1936 - )
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  • Nancy Reagan The Sixties, of course, was the worst time in the world to try and bring up a child. They were exposed to all these crazy things going on.
    Nancy Reagan
    American film actress and First Lady (1921 - 2016)
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  • Bertrand Russell The slave is doomed to worship time and fate and death, because they are greater than anything he finds in himself, and because all his thoughts are of things which they devour.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Lao-Tzu The softest things in the world overcome the hardest things in the world.
    Lao-Tzu
    Chinese philosopher (600 - 550)
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  • Vince Lombardi The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure. These qualities are so much more important than the events that occur.
    Vince Lombardi
    American football player (1913 - 1970)
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  • Ben Vereen The stage sharpened my creative instrument and encouraged me to go deeper and try new things.
    Ben Vereen
    American actor, dancer and singer (1946 - )
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  • David Lloyd George The stern hand of fate has scourged us to an elevation where we can see the great everlasting things which matter for a nation - the great peaks we had forgotten, of Honor, Duty, Patriotism, and clad in glittering white, the great pinnacle of Sacrifice pointing like a rugged finger to Heaven.
    David Lloyd George
    Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1916 to 1922 (1863 - 1945)
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  • Alice Munro The stories are not autobiographical, but they're personal in that way. I seem to know only the things that I've learned. Probably some things through observation, but what I feel I know surely is personal.
    Alice Munro
    Canadian short story writer (1931 - )
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