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  • Walt Whitman The genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges, or churches, or parlors, nor even in its newspapers or inventors, but always most in the common people.
    Walt Whitman
    American poet, essayist, and journalist (1819 - 1892)
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  • Wallace Stevens The genuine artist is never ''true to life.'' He sees what is real, but not as we are normally aware of it. We do not go storming through life like actors in a play. Art is never real life.
    Wallace Stevens
    American poet (1879 - 1955)
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  • Bob Dylan The geometry of innocence flesh on the bone
    Causes Galileo's math book to get thrown
    At Delilah who sits worthlessly alone
    But the tears on her cheeks are from laughter
    Source: Highway 61 Revisited (1965)
    Bob Dylan
    American musician (1941 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The German intellect wants the French sprightliness, the fine practical understanding of the English, and the American adventure; but it has a certain probity, which never rests in a superficial performance, but asks steadily, To what end? A German public asks for a controlling sincerity.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Alfred Rosenberg The German people is not marked by original sin, but by original nobility.
    Alfred Rosenberg
    German Nazi theorist and ideologue (1893 - 1946)
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  • George Borrow The Germans are the most philosophic people in the world, and the greatest smokers: now I trace their philosophy to their smoking. Smoking has a sedative effect upon the nerves, and enables a man to bear the sorrows of this life (of which every one has his share) not only decently, but dignifiedly.
    George Borrow
    English writer of novels and travel books (1803 - 1881)
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  • Andrew Johnson The goal to strive for is a poor government but a rich people.
    Andrew Johnson
    American politician and 17th US president (1808 - 1875)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The god of victory is said to be one-handed, but peace gives victory on both sides.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • George Eliot The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The good lawyer is not the man who has an eye to every side and angle of contingency, and qualifies all his qualifications, but who throws himself on your part so heartily, that he can get you out of a scrape.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Bjork The good thing about Pro Tools is you can actually hear what you're working on, so it doesn't just become this intellectual idea. But Pro Tools can be dangerous, too. It can make things sterile.
    Bjork
    Icelandic singer, songwriter and actress (1965 - )
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  • Seneca The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Bill Murray The government can destroy wealth but it cannot create wealth, which is the product of labor and management working with creation.
    Bill Murray
    American actor, comedian, and writer (1950 - )
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  • John C. Calhoun The Government of the absolute majority instead of the Government of the people is but the Government of the strongest interests; and when not efficiently checked, it is the most tyrannical and oppressive that can be devised.
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  • Benjamin Disraeli The governments of the present day have to deal not merely with other governments, with emperors, kings and ministers, but also with the secret societies which have everywhere their unscrupulous agents, and can at the last moment upset all the governments' plans.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Miguel de Cervantes The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application.
    Miguel de Cervantes
    Spanish writer and poet (1547 - 1616)
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  • Andrew Marvell The grave's a fine and private place, but none, I think, do there embrace.
    Andrew Marvell
    English poet, satirist and politician (1621 - 1678)
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  • Amelia Barr The great difference between voyages rests not with the ships, but with the people you meet on them.
    Amelia Barr
    British novelist and teacher (1831 - 1919)
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  • Benjamin Haydon The great difficulty is first to win a reputation; the next to keep it while you live; and the next to preserve it after you die, when affection and interest are over, and nothing but sterling excellence can preserve your name. Never suffer youth to be an excuse for inadequacy, nor age and fame to be an excuse for indolence.
    Benjamin Haydon
    British artist (1786 - 1846)
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  • John F. Kennedy The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie - deliberate, contrived, and dishonest - but the myth - persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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