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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton The world will never starve for want of wonders, but for want of wonder.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Alan Cohen The world would have you agree with its dismal dream of limitation. But the light would have you soar like the eagle of your sacred visions.
    Alan Cohen
    American businessman (1954 - )
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  • Elizabeth Barrett Browning The world's male chivalry has perished out, but women are knights-errant to the last; and, if Cervantes had been greater still, he had made his Don a Donna.
    Elizabeth Barrett Browning
    English poet (1806 - 1861)
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  • Ben Parr The world's most successful entrepreneurs play hard, but they work even harder.
    Ben Parr
    American journalist, author, venture capitalist (1985 - )
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  • John Mortimer The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed, saying: ''There is life, but it's not for you.''
    John Mortimer
    English barrister, dramatist, screenwriter, and author (1923 - 2009)
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  • Charles Dickens The worst of all listeners is the man who does nothing but listen.
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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  • Martin Luther King The worst of all tragedies is not to die young, but to live until I am seventy-five and yet not ever truly to have lived.
    Martin Luther King
    American preacher (1929 - 1968)
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  • José Saramago The worst pain ... isn't the pain you feel at the time, it's the pain you feel later on when there's nothing you can do about it, They say that time heals all wounds, But we never live long enough to test that theory.
    José Saramago
    Portugese writer (1922 - 2010)
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  • George Bernard Shaw The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them; that's the essence of inhumanity.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Arthur Christopher Benson The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortune, but its fears.
    Arthur Christopher Benson
    English essayist, poet, author and academic (1862 - 1925)
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  • Milan Kundera The worst thing is not that the world is unfree, but that people have unlearned their liberty.
    Milan Kundera
    Tsjech writer and criticus (1929 - 2023)
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  • Aharon Appelfeld The writer in western civilization has become not a voice of his tribe, but of his individuality. This is a very narrow-minded situation.
    Aharon Appelfeld
    Israeli writer (1932 - 2018)
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  • Karl Marx The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it.
    Karl Marx
    German economist and state philosopher (1818 - 1883)
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  • William Golding The writer probably knows what he meant when he wrote a book, but he should immediately forget what he meant when he's written it.
    William Golding
    British writer (1911 - 1993)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Samuel Butler The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has come to the knowledge of good and evil it is stronger, but we care less about it.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Samuel Johnson Their learning is like bread in a besieged town: every man gets a little, but no man gets a full meal.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Franklin D. Roosevelt Their road will be long and hard, for the enemy is strong. He may hurl back our forces, success may not come with rushing speed, but we shall return again and again.
    Franklin D. Roosevelt
    American statesman (1882 - 1945)
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  • Alfred Lord Tennyson Theirs is not to make reply: Theirs is not to reason why: Theirs is but to do and die.
    Alfred Lord Tennyson
    English poet (1809 - 1892)
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  • Billie Holiday Them that's got shall get
    Them that's not shall lose
    So the Bible said and it still is news
    Mama may have, Papa may have
    But God bless the child that's got his own
    That's got his own.
    God Bless The Child
    Billie Holiday
    American jazz musician and singer-songwriter (1915 - 1959)
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