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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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  • Henry Louis Mencken Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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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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  • William Cowper Fanaticism soberly defined, is the false fire of an over heated mind.
    William Cowper
    English poet (1731 - 1800)
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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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  • Jean-Paul Sartre Fascism is not defined by the number of its victims, but by the way it kills them.
    Jean-Paul Sartre
    French writer, philosopher and Nobel laureate in literature (1964) (1905 - 1980)
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  • Carolina Herrera Feeling good about yourself and your life is very important. I'm a happy woman, happy with my husband, my daughters, my grandchildren. We all get along quite well, and that keeps me centered.
    Carolina Herrera
    Venezuelan fashion designer (1939 - )
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  • Bernie S. Siegel Feelings aroused by the touch of someone's hand, the sound of music, the smell of a flower, a beautiful sunset, a work of art, love, laughter, hope and faith - all work on both the unconscious and the conscious aspects of the self, and they have physiological consequences as well.
    Bernie S. Siegel
    American writer and pediatric surgeon (1932 - )
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  • Christopher Morley Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse.
    Christopher Morley
    American Novelist, Journalist, Poet (1890 - 1957)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Bud Grant First of all the name, and the color purple, I think those two things distinguish the Vikings as much as anything. You go anywhere in the country and say 'Vikings,' they know exactly where you are. You say 'Cardinals,' well, Cardinals who? There are a dozen Cardinals teams in the country in professional and amateur sports.
    Bud Grant
    American football coach and player (1927 - )
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  • Bob McDonnell Fiscal responsibility and government reform are going to be good themes for governing, well at any time, but particularly coming out of a recovery.
    Bob McDonnell
    American politician and lawyer (1954 - )
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  • Burnie Burns Flash Video made platform sites like YouTube possible as well, and helped kick-start the online video revolution.
    Burnie Burns
    American writer, actor, producer and director (1973 - )
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg Food probably has a very great influence on the condition of men. Wine exercises a more visible influence, food does it more slowly but perhaps just as surely. Who knows if a well-prepared soup was not responsible for the pneumatic pump or a poor one for a war?
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Ludwig Wittgenstein For a large class of cases - though not for all - in which we employ the word ''meaning'' it can be defined thus: the meaning of a word is its use in the language.
    Ludwig Wittgenstein
    Austrian - English philosopher (1889 - 1951)
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  • Queen Victoria For a man to strike any women is most brutal, and I, as well as everyone else, think this far worse than any attempt to shoot, which, wicked as it is, is at least more comprehensible and more courageous.
    Queen Victoria
    Queen of Great Britain (1819 - 1901)
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