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  • Henry Ward Beecher The meanest, most contemptible kind of praise is that which first speaks well of a man, and then qualifies it with a ''But''.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Carlos Gershenson The meaning of life does not depend on where one is standing, but on towards where one is heading.
    Original: El sentido de la vida depende no de donde se encuentre uno sino de adonde se dirija.
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    Carlos Gershenson
    Mexican author and academic (1978 - )
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  • Corrie Ten Boom The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.
    Corrie Ten Boom
    Dutch-American resistance fighter and autobiographical writer (1892 - 1983)
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  • John Foster Dulles The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it's the same problem you had last year.
    John Foster Dulles
    American diplomat (1888 - 1959)
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  • Jackie Joyner Kersee The medals don't mean anything and the glory doesn't last. It's all about your happiness. The rewards are going to come, but my happiness is just loving the sport and having fun performing.
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  • Bruce Jackson The media bring our wars home, but only rarely have they been able to do it in complete freedom.
    Bruce Jackson
    American folklorist, documentary filmmaker and writer (1936 - )
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  • John Berger The media network has its idols, but its principal idol is its own style which generates an aura of winning and leaves the rest in darkness. It recognizes neither pity nor pitilessness.
    John Berger
    English art critic, novelist, painter and poet (1926 - 2017)
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  • Caroline Wozniacki The media will build you up in a hurry but then, just as fast, will bring you down.
    Caroline Wozniacki
    Danish tennis player (1990 - )
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  • Albert Einstein The meek shall inherit the earth, but not its mineral rights.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne The memory represents to us not what we choose but what it pleases.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Theodore Roosevelt The men with the muck-rake are often indispensable to the well-being of society, but only if they know when to stop raking the muck.
    Theodore Roosevelt
    American statesman (1858 - 1919)
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  • Barry Commoner The methods that EPA introduced after 1970 to reduce air-pollutant emissions worked for a while, but over time have become progressively less effective.
    Barry Commoner
    American cellular biologist, college professor, and politician (1917 - 2012)
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  • Booth Tarkington The middle-aged stranger whom I met by chance upon the lower rocks at Mary's Neck, that salt-washed promontory of the New England coast, was at first taciturn but became voluble when a little conversation developed the fact that we were both from the Midland country.
    Booth Tarkington
    American novelist and dramatist (1869 - 1946)
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  • Sean O'Casey The military mind is indeed a menace. Old-fashioned futurity that sees only men fighting and dying in smoke and fire; hears nothing more civilized than a cannonade; scents nothing but the stink of battle-wounds and blood.
    Sean O'Casey
    Irish Dramatist (1880 - 1964)
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  • Bernie S. Siegel The mind and body are not separate units, but one integrated system. How we act and what we think, eat, and feel are all related to our health. Physicians should be capable of teaching this behavior to patients.
    Bernie S. Siegel
    American writer and pediatric surgeon (1932 - )
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  • Benjamin Robbins Curtis The mind as well as the body must be not only strong but well disciplined in order to act with promptness and vigor in new and untried situations. It is hard to turn men's minds from the old and deeply worn channels in which they have long been flowing.
    Benjamin Robbins Curtis
    American attorney (1809 - 1874)
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  • Joseph Joubert The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight.
    Joseph Joubert
    French writer (1754 - 1824)
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  • Colin Wilson The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.
    Colin Wilson
    British writer (1931 - 2013)
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  • Bernard Devoto The mind has its own logic but does not often let others in on it.
    Bernard Devoto
    American historian, essayist and teacher
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  • Albert J. Nock The mind is like the stomach. It is not how much you put into it that counts, but how much it digests.
    Albert J. Nock
    American libertarian author (1870 - 1945)
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