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  • John Dryden Fool that I was, upon my eagle's wings I bore this wren, till I was tired with soaring, and now he mounts above me.
    John Dryden
    English poet and playwright (1631 - 1700)
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  • B. R. Ambedkar For a successful revolution it is not enough that there is discontent. What is required is a profound and thorough conviction of the justice, necessity and importance of political and social rights.
    B. R. Ambedkar
    Indian jurist, economist and politician (1891 - 1956)
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  • John Burroughs For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice - no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.
    John Burroughs
    American writer (1837 - 1921)
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  • Ann Bancroft For me, the greatest obstacles are never on the ice itself. That's the area I excel in. That's where my passion is. I think we all strive to push ourselves, to overcome our struggles. And when we do, we get to know ourselves better.
    Ann Bancroft
    American author, teacher, adventurer (1955 - )
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  • Carl Bernstein For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norms, even our cultural ideal.
    Carl Bernstein
    American investigative journalist and author (1944 - )
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  • Joseph Rudyard Kipling For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack.
    Joseph Rudyard Kipling
    English writer (1865 - 1936)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe For this reason the Bible is a book of eternal and effective power; because, as long as the world lasts, no one will say: I comprehend it in the whole and understand it in the particular. Rather we must modestly say it on the whole it is venerable, and in the particular practical.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Luis Bunuel Fortunately, somewhere between chance and mystery lies imagination, the only thing that protects our freedom, despite the fact that people keep trying to reduce it or kill it off altogether.
    Luis Bunuel
    Spanish director (1900 - 1983)
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  • Billy Wilder France is the country where the money falls apart and you can't tear the toilet paper.
    Billy Wilder
    Austrian-American filmmaker, screenwriter, producer and artist (1906 - 2002)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Freedom consists not in refusing to recognize anything above us, but in respecting something which is above us; for by respecting it, we raise ourselves to it, and, by our very acknowledgment, prove that we bear within ourselves what is higher, and are worthy to be on a level with it
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Rosa Luxemburg Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently.
    Rosa Luxemburg
    German Marxist politician and philosopher (1871 - 1919)
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  • Hubert Humphrey Freedom is hammered out on the anvil of discussion, dissent, and debate.
    Hubert Humphrey
    American politician (1911 - 1978)
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  • Joseph Addison Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Thomas Jefferson Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Joseph Addison Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • George Carlin Frisbeetarianism is the belief that when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck.
    George Carlin
    American stand-up comedian, actor and author (1937 - 2008)
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  • Buffalo Bill Frontiersmen good and bad, gunmen as well as inspired prophets of the future, have been my camp companions. Thus, I know the country of which I am about to write as few men now living have known it.
    Buffalo Bill
    American soldier, bison hunter, and showman (1846 - 1917)
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  • Thomas Gray Full many a flower is born to blush unseen,
    and waste its sweetness on the desert air.
    Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard , St. 14
    Thomas Gray
    British poet (1716 - 1771)
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  • James Cash Penney Geniuses themselves don't talk about the gift of genius, they just talk about hard work and long hours.
    James Cash Penney
    American businessman and entrepreneur (1875 - 1971)
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  • Ann Bancroft Getting through high school and college was one of my greatest achievements.
    Ann Bancroft
    American author, teacher, adventurer (1955 - )
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