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  • Carl Victor De Bonstetten To speak well supposes a habit of attention which shows itself in the thought; by language we learn to think, and above all to develop thought.
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe To understand one thing well is better than understanding many things by halves.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Aristotle To write well, express yourself like common people, but think like a wise man. Or, think as wise men do, but speak as the common people do.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Charles Dickens Tongue: well that's a very good thing when it ain't a woman's.
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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  • Carlton Cuse Tragedy is a great storytelling form. It worked extremely well for Shakespeare. It worked extremely well for Jim Cameron with 'Titanic.'
    Carlton Cuse
    American screenwriter, producer, and director (1959 - )
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  • Bill Owens True leadership lies in guiding others to success. In ensuring that everyone is performing at their best, doing the work they are pledged to do and doing it well.
    Bill Owens
    American photographer (1938 - )
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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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  • Billy Wilder Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's.
    Billy Wilder
    Austrian-American filmmaker, screenwriter, producer and artist (1906 - 2002)
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  • William C. Bryant Truth gets well if she is run over by a locomotive, while error dies of lockjaw if she scratches her finger.
    William C. Bryant
    American poet, editor (1794 - 1878)
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  • B. F. Skinner Twenty-five hundred years ago it might have been said that man understood himself as well as any other part of the world. Today he is the thing he understands least.
    B. F. Skinner
    American psychologist, behaviorist and author (1904 - 1990)
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  • Cameron Mackintosh Two of my theatres are 1930s and the other five are by Sprague, the greatest Edwardian architect of the lot. They've needed a lot of work doing to them but they were built very well.
    Cameron Mackintosh
    British theatrical producer and theatre owner (1946 - )
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  • Benigno Aquino III Typhoon Haiyan showed the entire world how vulnerable the Philippines as well as other developing countries are to natural disasters.
    Benigno Aquino III
    Filipino politician (1960 - )
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  • Leon Trotsky Under all conditions well-organized violence seems to him the shortest distance between two points.
    Leon Trotsky
    Russian revolutionary and writer (1879 - 1940)
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  • Horace Mann Unfaithfulness in the keeping of an appointment is an act of clear dishonesty. You may as well borrow a person's money as his time.
    Horace Mann
    American educator (1796 - 1859)
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  • Graham Greene Unhappiness in a child accumulates because he sees no end to the dark tunnel. The thirteen weeks of a term might just as well be thirteen years.
    Graham Greene
    English writer (1904 - 1991)
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  • Alan Cranston Unless you have a sense of values that's shared by people and turns them loose to do certain things on their own within those sets of values, the organization, whether a nation or corporation or citizen group, just doesn't work very well.
    Alan Cranston
    American politician and journalist (1914 - 2000)
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  • John B. S. Haldane Until politics are a branch of science we shall do well to regard political and social reforms as experiments rather than short-cuts to the millennium.
    John B. S. Haldane
    British scientist, writer (1892 - 1964)
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  • Alcee Hastings Usually, it is not my habit to address religious issues on the floor. I strongly believe in a person's right to religious freedom, as well as the separation of church and state.
    Alcee Hastings
    American politician (1936 - )
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  • Bernie Sanders We all remember the BP oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, the worst oil spill in U.S. history. What is less well known is that BP is claiming a 9.9 billion tax deduction on the money they had to spend cleaning up their own mess and paying for damages they caused. That is absurd.
    Bernie Sanders
    American politician (1941 - )
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  • Angelina Grimké We are commanded to love God with all our minds, as well as with all our hearts, and we commit a great sin if we forbid or prevent that cultivation of the mind in others which would enable them to perform this duty.
    Angelina Grimké
    American activists and female advocates of abolition and women's rights (1805 - 1879)
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