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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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  • George Gurdjieff Every ceremony or rite has a value if it is performed without alteration. A ceremony is a book in which a great deal is written. Anyone who understands can read it. One rite often contains more than a hundred books.
    George Gurdjieff
    Russian teacher and writer (1873 - 1949)
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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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  • William Ellery Channing Every man is a volume if you know how to read him.
    William Ellery Channing
    American Unitarian minister (1780 - 1842)
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  • Aldous Huxley Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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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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  • Britney Spears Every night, I have to read a book, so that my mind will stop thinking about things that I stress about.
    Britney Spears
    American singer, songwriter, dancer, and actress (1981 - )
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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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  • Barbara Kingsolver Every time I write a new novel about something sombre and sobering and terrible I think, 'oh Lord, they're not going to want to go here'. But they do. Readers of fiction read, I think, for a deeper embrace of the world, of reality. And that's brave.
    Barbara Kingsolver
    American novelist, essayist and poet (1955 - )
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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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  • Madonna Everyone probably thinks that I'm a raving nymphomaniac, that I have an insatiable sexual appetite, when the truth is I'd rather read a book.
    Madonna
    American musician, singer and actress (1958 - )
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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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  • Barbara Bush Everything I worry about would be better if more people could read, write and comprehend.
    Barbara Bush
    American First Lady (1925 - 2018)
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  • Casey Wilson Everything related to 'SNL,' that was very sudden - from the time I found out I was joining the cast to the time I could read on a blog that someone watching the show thinks I'm fat, that was about 30 days. That blog part, that could've moved a little more slowly. But hey - it's all material, right?
    Casey Wilson
    American actress, comedian, and screenwriter (1980 - )
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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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