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  • Pittacus That state is best ordered when the wicked have no command, and the good have.
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  • William Blake That the Jews assumed a right exclusively to the benefits of God will be a lasting witness against them and the same will it be against Christians.
    William Blake
    English poet (1757 - 1827)
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  • Michael Harrington That the poor are invisible is one of the most important things about them. They are not simply neglected and forgotten as in the old rhetoric of reform; what is much worse, they are not seen.
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  • Francis Bacon That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Henry David Thoreau That virtue we appreciate is as much ours as another s. We see so much only as we possess.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Cordell Hull That war has brought with it a truly incredible development of means of destruction and a terrifying prospect of rapid and almost limitless development in that direction.
    Cordell Hull
    American politician, U.S. Secretary of State from 1933 to 1944 (1871 - 1955)
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  • Hunter S. Thompson That was always the difference between Muhammad Ali and the rest of us. He came, he saw, and if he didn't entirely conquer - he came as close as anybody we are likely to see in the lifetime of this doomed generation.
    Hunter S. Thompson
    American journalist (1937 - 2005)
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  • Adam Savage That was cool and that sucked all at the same time.
    Adam Savage
    American special effects designer and fabricator (1967 - )
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  • Anna Lindh That was for instance the case in Mocambique a couple of years ago, during the flooding catastrophe. Instead of co-ordinating assistance properly, to much time and resources was spent on fighting about the same helicopters and local guides.
    Anna Lindh
    Swedish Social Democratic politician (1957 - 2003)
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  • Barbara Castle That was not what men and women fought for during the war.
    Barbara Castle
    British Labour Party politician (1910 - 2002)
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  • Anthony Holden That was par for the course but I also found that commissions were being canceled and in fact I considered this directly libelous - I write biographies for a living as well as being a journalist - for a non fiction book to be called fiction from beginning to end.
    Anthony Holden
    English writer, broadcaster and critic
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  • Buck Owens That was where my dream began to take hold, of not havin' to pick cotton and potatoes, and not havin' to be uncomfortable, too hot or too cold. That in itself had driven me to try to find some better way of life.
    Buck Owens
    American musician, singer, songwriter (1929 - 2006)
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  • Aldous Huxley That we are not much sicker and much madder than we are is due exclusively to that most blessed and blessing of all natural graces, sleep.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Logan Pearsall Smith That we should practice what we preach is generally admitted; but anyone who preaches what he and his hearers practice must incur the gravest moral disapprobation.
    Logan Pearsall Smith
    English writer (1865 - 1946)
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  • Bai Juyi That we wished to fly in heaven, two birds with the wings of one,
    And to grow together on the earth, two branches of one tree.
    Earth endures, heaven endures; some time both shall end,
    While this unending sorrow goes on and on for ever.
    Source: The Song of Long Sorrow
    Bai Juyi
     
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  • William Shakespeare That what we have, we prize not to the worth
    whiles we enjoy it; but being lack'd and lost,
    why, than we rack the value.
    Source: Much ado about nothing (1598)
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • L'Enclos, Ninon De That which is striking and beautiful is not always good; but that which is good is always beautiful.
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  • William Shakespeare That which ordinary men are fit for, I am qualified in. and the best of me is diligence.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Benjamin Franklin That which resembles most living one's life over again, seems to be to recall all the circumstances of it; and, to render this remembrance more durable, to record them in writing.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson That which we call character is a reserved force which acts directly by presence, and without means. It is conceived of as a certain undemonstrable force, a familiar or genius, by whose impulses the man is guided, but whose counsels he cannot impart.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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