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  • Amos Bronson Alcott Our notion of the perfect society embraces the family as its center and ornament, and this paradise is not secure until children appear to animate and complete the picture.
    Amos Bronson Alcott
    American educator and social reformer (1799 - 1888)
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  • Valerie Solanas Our society is not a community, but merely a collection of isolated family units.
    Valerie Solanas
    American feminist and author (1936 - 1988)
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  • Edward Bulwer-Lytton Patience is not active; on the contrary, it is active; it is concentrated strength.
    Edward Bulwer-Lytton
    English writer and poet (1803 - 1873)
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  • Joyce Meyer Patience is not simply the ability to wait - it's how we behave while we're waiting.
    Joyce Meyer
    American Christian author and speaker (1943 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Ellen Barkin People tend to remember my performances, not me.
    Ellen Barkin
    American actress and producer (1954 - )
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  • Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add but when there is no longer anything to take away, when a body has been stripped down to its nakedness.
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    French writer (1900 - 1944)
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  • Ashleigh Brilliant Please don't ask me what the score is. I'm not even sure what the game is.
    Ashleigh Brilliant
    American author and cartoonist (1933 - )
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  • John Kenneth Galbraith Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.
    John Kenneth Galbraith
    American economist (1908 - 2006)
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  • Saul Alinsky Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.
    Saul Alinsky
    American community organizer and writer (1909 - 1972)
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  • Samuel Johnson Prejudice not being funded on reason cannot be removed by argument.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Progress has not followed a straight ascending line, but a spiral with rhythms of progress and retrogression, of evolution and dissolution.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • George Orwell Progress is not an illusion, it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • George Santayana Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement: and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • H. A. L. Fisher Purity of race does not exist. Europe is a continent of energetic mongrels.
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  • Henry David Thoreau Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Albert Einstein Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • O. S. Hawkins Real Christianity is lovely. There is a quality about a Spirit-filled, radiant Christian that draws and attracts others and causes them to ''enjoy favor with all the people.'' The truth is that the gospel is not nearly as offensive as some of its proponents!
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  • Roger Bacon Reasoning draws a conclusion, but does not make the conclusion certain, unless the mind discovers it by the path of experience.
    Roger Bacon
    English philosopher and Franciscan (1214 - 1294)
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