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  • Bobby Bowden Faith is the most important thing in the world to me. It's the greatest strength I've had. It's helped me get through the hard times. You're not going to win every one of your football games. I've always said I'm not going to make football my god. A lot of coaches put so much into coaching football games that they have nothing left.
    Bobby Bowden
    American football coach (1929 - )
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  • Davy Crockett Fame is like a shaved pig with a greased tail, and it is only after it has slipped through the hands of some thousands, that some fellow, by mere chance, holds on to it!
    Davy Crockett
    American folk hero, soldier, and politician (1786 - 1836)
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  • Percy Bysshe Shelley Familiar acts are beautiful through love.
    Percy Bysshe Shelley
    English poet (1792 - 1822)
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  • Barbara Park For 20 years I've gotten to laugh my way through my work. For me, that's a dream job.
    Barbara Park
    American author of children's books (1947 - 2013)
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  • Barbara Demick For a North Korean watcher, seeing 'The Interview' is like seeing an earnest endeavor reflected back through a freak-show mirror.
    Barbara Demick
    American journalist
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  • Ralph Nader For almost seventy years the life insurance industry has been a smug sacred cow feeding the public a steady line of sacred bull.
    Ralph Nader
    American political activist, author and attorney (1934 - )
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  • Samuel Butler For most men, and most circumstances, pleasure - tangible material prosperity in this world - is the safest test of virtue. Progress has ever been through the pleasures rather than through the extreme sharp virtues, and the most virtuous have leaned to excess rather than to asceticism.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Albert Claude For over two billion years, through the apparent fancy of her endless differentiations and metamorphosis the Cell, as regards its basic physiological mechanisms, has remained one and the same. It is life itself, and our true and distant ancestor.
    Albert Claude
    Belgian-American cell biologist and doctor (1899 - 1983)
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  • Lawrence Durrell For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in daily life; in this way, not to evade destiny, as the ordinary people try to do, but to fulfil it in its true potential, the imagination.
    Lawrence Durrell
    British Author (1912 - 1990)
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  • Billy Joel For whatever reason, not all people are born with the particular gift of being able to express ourselves through music. And, believe me, it is a gift.
    Billy Joel
    American singer-songwriter and pianist (1949 - )
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  • Kabbalah Force never moves in a straight line, but always in a curve vast as the universe, and therefore eventually returns whence it issued forth, but upon a higher arc, for the universe has progressed since it started.
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  • Benjamin Disraeli Frank and explicit - that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and confuse the minds of others.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Herbert Hoover Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.
    Herbert Hoover
    American engineer, businessman and politician (1874 - 1964)
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  • Herbert Hoover Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.
    Herbert Hoover
    American engineer, businessman and politician (1874 - 1964)
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  • Terry Waite Freeing hostages is like putting up a stage set, which you do with the captors, agreeing on each piece as you slowly put it together; then you leave an exit through which both the captor and the captive can walk with sincerity and dignity.
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  • Betty Friedan Friedan: I think it's partly a reaction against feminism, partly envy of feminism, and partly partly a real need of men to evolve through the burden of the masculine mystique, the burden of machismo.
    The Playboy Interview
    Betty Friedan
    American feministisch writer (1921 - 2006)
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  • Brin-Jonathan Butler Galileo wasn't put in prison because he was wrong about anything he discovered looking through his telescope; rather, he was incarcerated simply because he saw what others didn't wish to see.
    Brin-Jonathan Butler
    American journalist and filmmaker
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  • Judith Guest Geez, if I could get through to you, kiddo, that depression is not sobbing and crying and giving vent, it is plain and simple reduction of feeling. Reduction, see? Of all feeling. People who keep stiff upper lips find that it's damn hard to smile.
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  • Jean-Paul Sartre Generosity is nothing else than a craze to possess. All which I abandon, all which I give, I enjoy in a higher manner through the fact that I give it away. To give is to enjoy possessively the object which one gives.
    Jean-Paul Sartre
    French writer, philosopher and Nobel laureate in literature (1964) (1905 - 1980)
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  • Earl Nightingale Get into a line that you will find to be a deep personal interest, something you really enjoy spending twelve to fifteen hours a day working at, and the rest of the time thinking about.
    Earl Nightingale
    American radio speaker and author (1921 - 1989)
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