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  • Henry David Thoreau The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Karl Lagerfeld The reason American cars don't sell anymore is that they have forgotten how to design the American Dream. What does it matter if you buy a car today or six months from now, because cars are not beautiful. That's why the American auto industry is in trouble: no design, no desire.
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  • Anselm Kiefer The reason for this project comes from my childhood, that is clear to me. I did not have any toys. So, I played in the bricks of ruined buildings around me and with which I built houses.
    Anselm Kiefer
    German painter and sculptor (1945 - )
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  • Campbell Scott The reason I got into acting was not to explore myself. I was a reader, I didn't care about acting. I got into it in college, but I had no interest really in that, in getting up in front of anybody.
    Campbell Scott
    American actor, director and producer (1961 - )
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  • Elbert Hubbard The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia.
    Elbert Hubbard
    American writer and publisher (1856 - 1915)
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  • Roger Simon The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
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  • Lord George Byron The reason that adulation is not displeasing is that, though untrue, it shows one to be of consequence enough, in one way or other, to induce people to lie.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The reason why men do not obey us is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Alice Miller The reason why parents mistreat their children has less to do with character and temperament than with the fact that they were mistreated themselves and were not permitted to defend themselves.
    Alice Miller
    Polish-born Swiss psychologist (1923 - 2010)
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  • M. Rutherford The reason why people so of ten disagree in discussion is that they sar what they do not think.
    M. Rutherford
    English writer (ps. van William Hale White) (1831 - 1913)
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  • Jonathan Swift The reason why so few marriages are happy, is because young ladies spend their time in making nets, not in making cages.
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld The reason why so few people are agreeable in conversation is that each is thinking more about what he intends to say than others are saying.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Eustace Budgell The reason why we see that people of the greatest capacity are not rich, is either they despise wealth in comparison to something else, or, they are not content in getting an estate, unless they may do it in their own way, while at the same time enjoying all the pleasures and gratitude's of life.
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  • Bobby Jindal The recent riots in France demonstrate the problem European countries face where second and third generation immigrants still do not consider themselves French, German, or English.
    Bobby Jindal
    American politician (1971 - )
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  • Abigail Adams The reins of government have been so long slackened, that I fear the people will not quietly submit to those restraints which are necessary for the peace and security of the community.
    Letter to John Adams (27 November 1775)
    Abigail Adams
    Wife of John Adams (1744 - 1818)
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  • Albert Einstein The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of thinking.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Albert Einstein The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Gaston Bachelard The repose of sleep refreshes only the body. It rarely sets the soul at rest. The repose of the night does not belong to us. It is not the possession of our being. Sleep opens within us an inn for phantoms. In the morning we must sweep out the shadows.
    Gaston Bachelard
    French scientist and philosopher (1884 - 1962)
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  • Thomas Jefferson The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Benjamin Graham The Reservoir system will function not only as an equalizer of business conditions, but also as a national store to meet further emergencies, such as war and drought, and-most important of all-as the concrete means of developing a steadily higher living standard for all.
    Storage and Stability Part II, Ch. IV, A Plan For Conserving Surplus, p.
    Benjamin Graham
    British-born American economist, professor and investor (1894 - 1976)
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