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  • Golda Meir It's no accident many accuse me of conducting public affairs with my heart instead of my head. Well, what if I do? Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart don't know how to laugh either.
    Golda Meir
    Prime Minister of Israel (1898 - 1978)
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  • Bill Gates It's possible, you can never know, that the universe exists only for me. If so, it's sure going well for me, I must admit.
    Source: TIME magazine Vol. 149, No. 2 (13 January 1997)
    Bill Gates
    American business magnate, investor, author and philanthropist (1955 - )
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  • Barbara Corcoran It's rumored that doing well in real estate is to be able to close a deal. I did not find that to be the case for myself, I was probably the worst closer out there and I didn't find that was true of my top super stars either.
    Barbara Corcoran
    American businesswoman, investor, speaker and consultant (1949 - )
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  • Caroline Wozniacki It's tough to perform every week and do it well. Most people don't know how hard that is.
    Caroline Wozniacki
    Danish tennis player (1990 - )
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  • Ahmed Ben Bella It's with them that we have constituted a liberation front and brought our logistic support to armies to help their countries come out of colonialism and establish a national internal regime.
    Ahmed Ben Bella
    Algerian politician, socialist soldier and revolutionary (1916 - 2012)
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  • Tsitsi Dangarembga It’s bad enough when a country gets colonized, but when the people do as well! That’s the end, really, that’s the end.
    Tsitsi Dangarembga
    Zimbabwean novelist, playwright and filmmaker (1959 - )
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  • Bob Beauprez Job growth well in excess of population increase would be a very good thing if it were only that easy.
    Bob Beauprez
    American politician and member (1948 - )
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  • Andrew Coyle Bradley Job was the greatest of all the children of the east, and his afflictions were well-nigh more than he could bear; but even if we imagined them wearing him to death, that would not make his story tragic.
    Andrew Coyle Bradley
    American lawyer (1844 - 1902)
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  • Arthur Schopenhauer Just as the largest library, badly arranged, is not so useful as a very moderate one that is well arranged, so the greatest amount of knowledge, if not elaborated by our own thoughts, is worth much less than a far smaller volume that has been abundantly and repeatedly thought over.
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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  • Bruce Springsteen Just sitting back trying to recapture a little of the glory of...
    Well, the time slips away and leaves you with nothing, mister, but boring stories of
    Glory days - yeah, they'll pass you by,
    Glory days - in the wink of a young girl's eye.
    Source: Born In The U.S.A. (1984) Glory Days
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Blaise Pascal Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just.
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • John McCain Keep moving if you love life, and keep your troubles well behind you.
    Source: Worth the Fighting For (2002)
    John McCain
    American politician (1936 - 2018)
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  • Antonia Fraser King Charles II liked women's company and well as making love to them.
    Antonia Fraser
    British author of history, novels, biographies and detective (1932 - )
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  • Blaise Pascal Kings are surrounded with persons who are wonderfully attentive in taking care that the king be not alone and in a state to think of himself, knowing well that he will be miserable, king though he be, if he meditate on self.
    Source: Pensees (1669)
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Billie Jean King Ladies, here's a hint. If you're up against a girl with big boobs, bring her to the net and make her hit backhand volleys. That's the hardest shot for the well-endowed.
    Billie Jean King
    American tennis player (1943 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Alexander Pope Learn to live well, or fairly make your will; you played, and loved, and ate, and drunk your fill: walk sober off; before a sprightlier age comes tittering on, and shoves you from the stage: leave such to trifle with more grace and ease, whom Folly pleases, and whose Follies please.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Albert J. Nock Learning has always been made much of, but forgetting has always been deprecated; therefore pedantry has pretty well established itself throughout the modern world at the expense of culture.
    Albert J. Nock
    American libertarian author (1870 - 1945)
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  • Carol Shields Learning to skip has brought control into her life. Whenever she feels all sad, she switches into this wholly happy gait, sliding, hopping, and sliding again; when doing this, it seems as though her head separates from her body, making her feel dizzy and emptied out of bad thoughts. Does anyone else know this trick, she wonders? Probably not, although her Mother sometimes smiles and waves from the window.
    Carol Shields
    American-born Canadian novelist (1935 - 2003)
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  • Barbara Ehrenreich Lenders, including major credit companies as well as payday lenders, have taken over the traditional role of the street-corner loan shark, charging the poor insanely high rates of interest.
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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