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  • Wallace Stevens What our eyes behold may well be the text of life but one's meditations on the text and the disclosures of these meditations are no less a part of the structure of reality.
    Wallace Stevens
    American poet (1879 - 1955)
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  • Brit Hume What played to what had been a relative weakness for us-this was exploding overseas as well, and we had to scramble to mount some reach and get into places and be competitive on the ground.
    Brit Hume
    American journalist and political commentator (1943 - )
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  • John Ruskin What right have you to take the word wealth, which originally meant ''well-being,'' and degrade and narrow it by confining it to certain sorts of material objects measured by money.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Bill Gates What's amazing is, if young people understood how doing well in school makes the rest of their life so much interesting, they would be more motivated. It's so far away in time that they can't appreciate what it means for their whole life.
    Bill Gates
    American business magnate, investor, author and philanthropist (1955 - )
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  • Jeanette Winterson What's invisible to us is also crucial for our own well-being.
    Jeanette Winterson
    English writer (1959 - )
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  • Bobby Rahal What's really hit me over the years is that you go to every race and see all the well-wishers, and you really feel like you are connected with people after all these years.
    Bobby Rahal
    American auto racing driver (1953 - )
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  • Doris Lessing What's terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is first-rate, that you don't need love when you do or that you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.
    Doris Lessing
    British novelist (1919 - 2013)
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  • Seneca Whatever is well said by another, is mine.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Lord Chesterfield Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Louis XIV Whatever side I take, I know well that I will be blamed.
    Louis XIV
    French king, also called Sun King (1638 - 1715)
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  • Martin Luther King Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.
    Martin Luther King
    American preacher (1929 - 1968)
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  • Benjamin Haydon When a man is no longer anxious to do better than well, he is done for.
    Benjamin Haydon
    British artist (1786 - 1846)
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  • Casey Affleck When a performance isn't working, it's usually because the actor is trying to do something and they're not able to express their idea very well. It's a muddled expression.
    Casey Affleck
    American actor and director (1975 - )
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  • Anatole France When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
    Anatole France
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1921) (1844 - 1924)
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  • Martin Luther When I am angry I can pray well and preach well.
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  • Bobby Vinton When I owned the theater, I had the Glen Miller Orchestra. I had 20 girls singing and dancing. I had a cast of characters. It was a big group production, as well as ushers, ticket takers.
    Bobby Vinton
    American singer and songwriter (1935 - )
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  • Butch Trucks When I play, I stare at the left hand of whoever is playing lead. And I get to know what people are playing well enough that when they start going somewhere, once they arrive, I'm already there.
    Butch Trucks
    American musician (1947 - 2017)
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  • Bob Monkhouse When I said I was going to become a comedian, they all laughed. Well, they're not laughing now, are they?
    Second obituary on BBC news website
    Bob Monkhouse
    English entertainer and comedian (1928 - 2003)
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  • George Washington Carver When I was young, I said to God, god, tell me the mystery of the universe. But God answered, that knowledge is for me alone. So I said, god, tell me the mystery of the peanut. Then God said, well, George, that's more nearly your size.
    George Washington Carver
    American botanist and inventor (1864 - 1943)
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  • Bonnie Tyler When I was young, I used to wear a lot of wigs, and I was running on stage at a gig and tripped over and it fell off. It was in the 1970s, and Swansea were doing really well in the league, and most of the team were there. I almost died, but I picked it up, put it back on my head and carried on.
    Bonnie Tyler
    Welsh singer (1951 - )
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