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  • Carolyn Chute What poor people go through, it's amazing they don't do more violent things! If they'd just give you a little dignity, it might help you stand it better. They suffer no heat, no electricity, while you're working, but then you've got to face all the insults, too.
    Carolyn Chute
    American writer and populist
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  • Rosa Parks What really matters is not whether we have problems, but how we go through them. We must keep going on to make it through whatever we are facing.
    Rosa Parks
    American activist in the civil rights movement (1913 - 2005)
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  • Andrew Lloyd Webber What strikes me is that there's a very fine line between success and failure. Just one ingredient can make the difference.
    Andrew Lloyd Webber
    English composer and impresario (1948 - )
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  • Benjamin Robbins Curtis Whatever may be the merits of a religious system, its effects upon the mass of mankind must depend in an important degree upon its teachers. All instruction and all truth, except simple mathematical truth, is modified by the medium through which it is conveyed.
    Benjamin Robbins Curtis
    American attorney (1809 - 1874)
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  • Henry Miller Whatever needs to be maintained through force is doomed.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • Harry Browne Whatever the price, identify it now. What will you have to go through to get where you want to be? There is a price you can pay to be free of the situation once and for all. It may be a fantastic price or a tiny one - but there is a price.
    Harry Browne
    American financial adviser and writer (1933 - 2006)
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  • Henry Miller Whatever there be of progress in life comes not through adaptation but through daring, through obeying the blind urge.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • Sydney Smith Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousand times worse than nothing.
    Sydney Smith
    English writer and cleric (1856 - 1934)
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  • Anita Diamant Whatever your relationship is to your sacred tradition in the West, you have some relationship to the Bible if only through the names of the characters.
    Anita Diamant
    American author (1951 - )
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  • Carlos Ruiz Zafon When 'The Shadow of the Wind' became a success I had already been a working writer, I'd been through the ups and downs, I'd seen how it worked.
    Carlos Ruiz Zafon
    Spanish novelist (1964 - 2020)
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  • Pat Riley When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.
    Pat Riley
    American basketball coach (1945 - )
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  • Brian P. Cleary When a kid can understand that a word can mean two things, there's some real thinking going on. They have a vested interest in finding out what a word means, because it's the punch line to a joke.
    Brian P. Cleary
    American humorist and poet (1959 - )
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  • Marcelene Cox When a man does a household job, he goes through three periods: contemplating how it will be done; contemplating when it will be done; and contemplating.
    Marcelene Cox
    American author
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  • Enid Bagnold When a man goes through six years training to be a doctor he will never be the same. He knows too much.
    Enid Bagnold
    British writer, playwright (1889 - 1981)
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  • Don Marquis When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him whose?
    Don Marquis
    American writer (1878 - 1937)
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  • Jean Rostand When a scientist is ahead of his times, it is often through misunderstanding of current, rather than intuition of future truth. In science there is never any error so gross that it won't one day, from some perspective, appear prophetic.
    Jean Rostand
    French writer (1894 - 1977)
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  • Mahatma Gandhi When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible but in the end, they always fall - think of it, ALWAYS.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • Blair Redford When I first meet a girl, I have some questions I go through if I'm interested in her. Like, if she's a good-looking girl, and I figure out right away that she doesn't read, that's a dealbreaker for me.
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  • Bruce Springsteen When I first started in rock, I had a big guy's audience for my early records. I had a very straight image, particularly through the mid '80s.
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Philip Roth When I have a first draft, I have a floor under my feet that I can walk on. Then, especially with the help of the computer, rewriting is so easy to do with the computer, much easier than it used to be with the typewriter. So the books go through numerous drafts.
    Philip Roth
    American Novelist (1933 - 2018)
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