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  • Bertrand Russell Even when the experts all agree, they may well be mistaken.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Billy Baldwin Evergreen had opened up a whole new world to me. There I met many internationally celebrated people: there I was surrounded by the best art and music, as well as conversation. I knew I could never return to the life I had led before.
    Billy Baldwin
    American actor and writer
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  • Mary Cholmondeley Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.
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  • Barbara Cartland Every man has been brought up with the idea that decent women don't pop in and out of bed; he has always been told by his mother that nice girls don't. He finds, of course, when he gets older that this may be untrue - but only in a certain section of society.
    Barbara Cartland
    English author of romance novels (1901 - 2000)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Every man who would do anything well, must come to it from a higher ground.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Simone Weil Every new development for the last three centuries has brought men closer to a state of affairs in which absolutely nothing would be recognized in the whole world as possessing a claim to obedience except the authority of the State. The majority of people in Europe obey nothing else.
    Simone Weil
    French philosopher (1909 - 1943)
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  • Elbert Hubbard Every spirit makes its house, but as afterwards the house confines the spirit, you had better build well.
    Elbert Hubbard
    American writer and publisher (1856 - 1915)
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  • Bob Brown Every time I get a bit worried about having made some second rate choices in life I go back and read about the Suffragettes or William Wilberforce, people who were 'wrong' in their own time, and think, 'Ah well.'
    Bob Brown
    Australian politician, medical doctor and environmentalist (1944 - )
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  • Aesop Every truth has two sides; it is as well to look at both, before we commit ourselves to either.
    Aesop
    Greek fabulist and story teller (620 - 564)
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  • Napoleon Hill Every well built house started in the form of a definite purpose plus a definite plan in the nature of a set of blueprints.
    Napoleon Hill
    American self-help author (1883 - 1970)
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  • Bobby Darin Everybody, sooner or later, will have to go under the knife. Let's hope they make out as well as I did.
    Bobby Darin
    American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, impressionist, and actor (1936 - 1973)
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  • Carl Gustav Jung Everyone knows nowadays that people 'have complexes'. What is not so well known, though far more important theoretically, is that complexes can have us.
    Source: The Collected Works of C. G. Jung: The structure and dynamics of the psyche (1960)
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Brigham Young Everyone should learn to do one thing supremely well because he likes it, and one thing supremely well because he detests it.
    Brigham Young
    American Mormon Leader (1801 - 1877)
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  • Aldo Leopold Examine each question in terms of what is ethically and aesthetically right, as well as what is economically expedient.
    Aldo Leopold
    American author, philosopher, naturalist and conservationist, (1887 - 1948)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Samuel Johnson Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree. We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Bonnie Tyler Fabulous place, Dublin is. The trouble is, you work hard and in Dublin you play hard as well.
    Bonnie Tyler
    Welsh singer (1951 - )
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  • Carl Clinton Van Doren Familiar life, tending to sordidness, had been succeeded by remote life, generally idealized; historical detail had been brought in to teach readers who were being entertained.
    Carl Clinton Van Doren
    American critic and biographer (1885 - 1980)
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  • Antoine Rivarol Familiarity is the root of the closest friendships, as well as the interests hatreds.
    Antoine Rivarol
    French journalist (1753 - 1801)
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  • A. Bartlett Giamatti Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part of the knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be one who knows that if you reserve the power not to use all your power, you will lead others far more successfully and well.
    A. Bartlett Giamatti
    American professor and president of Yale University (1938 - 1989)
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