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  • Thomas Carlyle Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Alain Badiou Evil is the moment when I lack the strength to be true to the Good that compels me.
    Alain Badiou
    French philosopher (1937 - )
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  • Alain Badiou Evil is the moment when I lack the strength to be true to the Good that compels me.
    Alain Badiou
    French philosopher (1937 - )
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  • William Cowper Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything. The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
    William Cowper
    English poet (1731 - 1800)
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  • Bret Easton Ellis Exploitation is a harsh word, I know that, but on a certain level, to me that is the central Hollywood story.
    Bret Easton Ellis
    American author, screenwriter, short-story writer, and director (1964 - )
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  • John Keats Failure is in a sense the highway to success, as each discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true.
    John Keats
    English poet (1795 - 1821)
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  • Carolyn Leigh Fairy tales can come true, It can happen to you If you're young at heart.
    Source: Young at Heart (1954)
    Carolyn Leigh
     
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  • Richard Burton False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports.
    Richard Burton
    Welsh actor (1925 - 1984)
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  • Charles De Montesquieu False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.
    Charles De Montesquieu
    French philosopher (1689 - 1755)
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  • Søren Kierkegaard Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good.
    Søren Kierkegaard
    Danish philosopher (1813 - 1855)
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  • Viktor E. Frankl Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.
    Viktor E. Frankl
    Austrian psychiatrist (1905 - 1997)
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  • Casey Stengel Finding good players is easy. Getting them to play as a team is another story.
    Casey Stengel
    American basketbal player and manager (1890 - 1975)
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  • Barack Obama Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.
    Source: Power in Words: The Stories Behind Barack Obamas Speeches, from the State House to the White House
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Anthony Robbins For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.
    Anthony Robbins
    American author, entrepreneur, philanthropist and life coach (1960 - )
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  • Bryan Fuller For me, nudity and strong language have never been huge loadbearing elements of how I like to tell a story. Graphic images certainly are.
    Bryan Fuller
    American television writer and producer (1969 - )
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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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  • James Allen For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?
    James Allen
    British philosophical writer (1864 - 1912)
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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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  • Adam Michnik France can never accept that it is no longer a dominating power in the world of culture. This is true both of the French right and the French left. They keep thinking that Americans are primitive cowboys or farmers who do not understand anything.
    Adam Michnik
    Polish historian, essayist and dissident (1946 - )
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  • Beth Grant Frequently over the years, people have thought that they know me. Every character actor has this story, I'm sure. It goes like this: 'Um, do you play soccer?' 'Did you go to such and such church?' 'I knew you when you were with so and so... ' Then I go, 'Well, sorry...' and then they say, 'Wait a minute. Are you an actor?'
    Beth Grant
    American actress (1949 - )
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