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  • Michelangelo Trifles make perfection, but perfection is no trifle.
    Michelangelo
    Italian sculptor, painter and poet (1475 - 1564)
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  • Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr Troubles impending always seem worse than troubles surmounted, but this does not prove that they really are.
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  • Bob Beauprez True enough, Osama bin Laden is dead and other al-Qaeda leaders have joined him. But, the assassination of Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans in Benghazi is a brutal reminder that radical Islamic terror groups have not disappeared and certainly are not dormant.
    Bob Beauprez
    American politician and member (1948 - )
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  • Ben Jonson True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.
    Ben Jonson
    British Dramatist, Poet (1572 - 1637)
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  • Thomas Carlyle True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is love. It issues not in laughter, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Augustus William Hare True modesty does not consist in an ignorance of our merits, but in a due estimate of them.
    Augustus William Hare
    British writer (1792 - 1834)
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  • Lord Mansfield True popularity is not the popularity which is followed after, but the popularity which follows after.
    Lord Mansfield
    British barrister, politician and judge (1705 - 1793)
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  • Alan Cohen True progress comes not through action, but through awakening.
    Alan Cohen
    American businessman (1954 - )
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  • James Russell Lowell True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment.
    James Russell Lowell
    American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat (1819 - 1891)
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  • Bruce Lee True thusness is the substance of thought, and thought is the function of true thusness. There is no thought except that of true thusness. Thusness does not move, but its motion and function are inexhaustible.
    Striking Thoughts (2000)
    Bruce Lee
    Chinese-American Actor, Director, Author, Martial Artist (1940 - 1973)
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  • Akhenaton True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind; the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not; he knoweth all things but his own ignorance.
    Akhenaton
    Egyptian King, Monotheist (1372 - 1337)
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  • Alexander Pope True wit is nature to advantage dressed, what oft was thought, but never so well expressed.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Abigail Van Buren True, a little learning is a dangerous thing, but it still beats total ignorance.
    Abigail Van Buren
    American advice columnist and radio show host (1918 - 2013)
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  • Blaise Pascal Truly it is an evil to be full of faults; but it is a still greater evil to be full of them and to be unwilling to recognize them, since that is to add the further fault of a voluntary illusion.
    Pensees
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Cass Sunstein Trump is more performance artist than zealot. But he's finding enemies everywhere, whether they are judges of Mexican ancestry, parents of those killed in war, the current president, or children of immigrants. Whether or not he has a sense of decency, he is in grave danger of losing it.
    Cass Sunstein
    American legal scholar (1954 - )
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  • Finley Peter Dunne Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
    Finley Peter Dunne
    American Journalist, Humorist (1867 - 1936)
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  • Doris Lessing Trust no friend without faults, and love a woman, but no angel.
    Doris Lessing
    British novelist (1919 - 2013)
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  • Alexander Pope Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Ronald Reagan Trust, but verify.
    Ronald Reagan
    American politician and actor (1911 - 2004)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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