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  • Albert Schweitzer The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.
    Albert Schweitzer
    German physician, theologian, philosopher, musician (1875 - 1965)
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  • James Baldwin The greatest significance of the present student generation is that it is through them that the point of view of the subjugated is finally and inexorably being expressed.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Brendan Gill The guns of the big events rumble through our pages, but the tiny firecrackers are constantly hissing and popping there as well; it appears that much of my life as a journalist has been devoted to sedulously setting off firecrackers.
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  • Hubert Humphrey The heroes of the world community are not those who withdraw when difficulties ensue, not those who can envision neither the prospect of success nor the consequence of failure - but those who stand the heat of battle, the fight for world peace through the United Nations.
    Hubert Humphrey
    American politician (1911 - 1978)
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  • E. M. Forster The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will move in a world of the dead. He can only gain that conception through personal experience, and he can only use his personal experiences when he is a genius.
    E. M. Forster
    English novelist, short story writer, essayist and librettist (1879 - 1970)
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  • Aung San Suu Kyi The history of the world shows that peoples and societies do not have to pass through a fixed series of stages in the course of development.
    Aung San Suu Kyi
    Burmese politician (1945 - )
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  • Mark Twain The holy passion of friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Ban Ki-moon The human family is at a critical juncture. The world is moving through a great transition. This transition is economic, as the digital revolution advances and as new powers and groups emerge.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Horace The human race afraid of nothing, rushes on through every crime.
    Horace
    Roman poet
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  • Umberto Eco The ideology of this America wants to establish reassurance through Imitation. But profit defeats ideology, because the consumers want to be thrilled not only by the guarantee of the Good but also by the shudder of the Bad.
    Umberto Eco
    Italian writer and critic (1932 - 2016)
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  • Harry A. Overstreet The immature mind hops from one thing to another; the mature mind seeks to follow through.
    Harry A. Overstreet
    American writer and lecturer (1875 - 1970)
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  • Will Rogers The income tax has made liars out of more Americans than golf. Even when you make a tax form out on the level, you don't know when it's through if you are a crook or a martyr.
    Will Rogers
    American actor and humorist (1879 - 1935)
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  • Carol Moseley Braun The Islamic community today is faced with a new version of an old struggle. My late mother used to say it doesn't matter whether you came to this country on the Mayflower or on a slave ship, through Ellis Island or the Rio Grande. We're all in the same boat now.
    Speech, September 2004
    Carol Moseley Braun
    American diplomat, politician, and lawyer (1947 - )
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  • Diana Spencer Princess of Wales The kindness and affection from the public have carried me through some of the most difficult periods, and always your love and affection have eased the journey.
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  • Arnold Schwarzenegger The last three or four reps is what makes the muscles grow. This area of pain divides a champion from someone who is not a champion. That's what most people lack, having the guts to go on and just say they'll go through the pain no matter what happens.
    Arnold Schwarzenegger
    Austrian-American actor, politican, businessman and investor (1947 - )
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  • Bob Monkhouse The last time I was in Spain I got through six Jeffrey Archer novels. I must remember to take enough toilet paper next time.
    Independent on Sunday obituary
    Bob Monkhouse
    English entertainer and comedian (1928 - 2003)
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  • Bertrand Russell The life of man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a goal that few can hope to reach, and where none may tarry long.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Herman Melville The lightning flashes through my skull; mine eyeballs ache and ache; my whole beaten brain seems as beheaded, and rolling on some stunning ground.
    Herman Melville
    American author (1819 - 1891)
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  • Elbert Hubbard The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it.
    Elbert Hubbard
    American writer and publisher (1856 - 1915)
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  • Bjorn Lomborg The main environmental challenge of the 21st century is poverty. When you don't know where your next meal is coming from, it's hard to consider the environment 100 years down the line.
    Bjorn Lomborg
    Danish author (1965 - )
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