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  • Vladimir Mayakovsky No gray hairs streak my soul, no grandfatherly fondness there! I shake the world with the might of my voice, and walk -handsome, twenty-two year old.
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  • Jean Paul No heroine can create a hero through love of one, but she can give birth to one.
    Jean Paul
    German poet (ps. by Johann P.F. Richter) (1763 - 1825)
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  • Ernest Renan No idea can succeed except at the expense of sacrifice; no one ever escapes without enduring strain from the struggle of life.
    Ernest Renan
    French writer and critic (1823 - 1892)
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  • George Bernard Shaw No king on earth is as safe in his job as a Trade Union official. There is only one thing that can get him sacked; and that is drink. Not even that, as long as he doesn't actually fall down.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Napoleon Hill No man ever achieved worth-while success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure.
    Napoleon Hill
    American self-help author (1883 - 1970)
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  • Channing Pollock No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
    Channing Pollock
    American actor (1880 - 1946)
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  • Henry Ward Beecher No man is such a conqueror, as the one that has defeated himself.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Elbert Hubbard No man needs a vacation so much as the man who has just had one.
    Elbert Hubbard
    American writer and publisher (1856 - 1915)
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  • Honoré de Balzac No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
    Honoré de Balzac
    French writer (1799 - 1850)
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  • Tallulah Bankhead No man worth his salt, no man of spirit and spine, no man for whom I could have any respect, could rejoice in the identification of Tallulah's husband. It's tough enough to be bogged down in a legend. It would be even tougher to marry one.
    Tallulah Bankhead
    American actress (1902 - 1968)
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  • Nathaniel Hawthorne No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself, and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be true.
    Nathaniel Hawthorne
    American short story writer (1804 - 1864)
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  • William James No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess, and no matter how good one's sentiments may be, if one has not taken advantage of every concrete opportunity to act, one's character may remain entirely unaffected for the better.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Billy Graham No matter how prepared you think you are for the death of a loved one, it still comes as a shock, and it still hurts very deeply.
    Billy Graham
    American Evangelist (1918 - 2018)
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  • Bruce Forsyth No one - apart from my agent, perhaps - should leave one of my shows in tears.
    Bruce Forsyth
    British presenter, actor, comedian, singer, dancer and screenwriter (1928 - 2017)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe No one as ever completed their apprenticeship.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Henry Miller No one asks you to throw Mozart out of the window. Keep Mozart. Cherish him. Keep Moses too, and Buddha and Lao Tzu and Christ. Keep them in your heart. But make room for the others, the coming ones, the ones who are already scratching on the window-panes.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • Avi Arad No one bothered reading the books and understanding - and again, I'm not being high-falutin' about it - but I think our books are great literature with great metaphors of real life dealing with fears and hopes.
    Avi Arad
    Israeli-American businessman (1948 - )
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  • David Hare No one but a fool is always right.
    David Hare
    British Playwright, Director (1947 - )
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  • Oliver Goldsmith No one but a fool would measure their satisfaction by what the world thinks of it.
    Oliver Goldsmith
    Irish writer and poet (1728 - 1774)
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  • Anna Pavlova No one can arrive from being talented alone, work transforms talent into genius.
    Anna Pavlova
    Russian prima ballerina of the late 19th and the (1881 - 1931)
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