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  • Buffalo Bill The Indians were well mounted and felt proud and elated because they had been made United States soldiers.
    The Life of Hon. William F. Cody, Known as Buffalo Bill, the Famous Hunter, Scout, and Guide: An Autobiography (1978 edition), U of Nebraska Press
    Buffalo Bill
    American soldier, bison hunter, and showman (1846 - 1917)
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  • Edward F. Halifax The invisible thing called a Good Name is made up of the breath of numbers that speak well of you.
    Edward F. Halifax
    British Conservative Statesman (1881 - 1959)
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  • Samuel Johnson The Irish are a fair people: They never speak well of one another.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Harold Nicolson The Irish do not want anyone to wish them well; they want everyone to wish their enemies ill.
    Harold Nicolson
    British writer, diplomat and politician (1886 - 1968)
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  • Julius Erving The key to success is to keep growing in all areas of life - mental, emotional, spiritual, as well as physical.
    Julius Erving
    American basketball player (1950 - )
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  • Adolf Loos The law courts must appear as a threatening gesture toward secret vice. The bank must declare: here your money is secure and well looked after by honest people.
    Adolf Loos
    Austrian and Czechoslovak architect (1870 - 1933)
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  • Anatole France The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor, to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets and to steal bread.
    Original: La majestueuse égalité des lois, qui interdit au riche comme au pauvre de coucher sous les ponts, de mendier dans les rues et de voler du pain.
    Anatole France
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1921) (1844 - 1924)
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  • Blake Anderson The lead singer for Deerhunter, Bradford Cox... I don't like saying people are geniuses or whatever, but I just think that dude is so good at every single thing he does. He stays within his genre, but I think he does so well experimenting with stuff.
    Blake Anderson
    American actor, comedian and producer (1984 - )
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  • Benito Mussolini The League is very well when sparrows shout, but no good at all when eagles fall out.
    Benito Mussolini
    Italian journalist, politician and dictator (1883 - 1945)
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  • Carl Sagan The library connects us with the insight and knowledge, painfully extracted from Nature, of the greatest minds that ever were, with the best teachers, drawn from the entire planet and from all our history, to instruct us without tiring, and to inspire us to make our own contribution to the collective knowledge of the human species. I think the health of our civilization, the depth of our awareness about the underpinnings of our culture and our concern for the future can all be tested by how well
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Alexis de Tocqueville The main business of religions is to purify, control, and restrain that excessive and exclusive taste for well-being which men acquire in times of equality.
    Alexis de Tocqueville
    French aristocrat, political philosopher and sociologist (1805 - 1859)
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  • Machiavelli The main foundations of every state, new states as well as ancient or composite ones, are good laws and good arms you cannot have good laws without good arms, and where there are good arms, good laws inevitably follow.
    Machiavelli
    Florentine state philosopher (1469 - 1527)
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  • Bill Dedman The Manhattan district attorney has closed the well-publicized investigation of the handling of the $300 million fortune of reclusive heiress Huguette Clark - without charging anyone with a crime.
    Bill Dedman
    American journalist (1960 - )
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  • Douglas Everett The mark of a well educated person is not necessarily in knowing all the answers, but in knowing where to find them.
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  • Mikhail Gorbachev The market came with the dawn of civilization and it is not an invention of capitalism. If it leads to improving the well-being of the people there is no contradiction with socialism.
    Mikhail Gorbachev
    Russian and former Soviet politician (1931 - )
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  • Bayard Taylor The maxims tell you to aim at perfection, which is well; but it's unattainable, all the same.
    Bayard Taylor
    American poet, travel author, and diplomat (1825 - 1878)
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  • Henry Ward Beecher The meanest, most contemptible kind of praise is that which first speaks well of a man, and then qualifies it with a ''But''.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Adelaide Anne Procter The men are much alarmed by certain speculations about women; and well they may be, for when the horse and ass begin to think and argue, adieu to riding and driving.
    Adelaide Anne Procter
    English poet and philanthropist (1825 - 1864)
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  • Theodore Roosevelt The men with the muck-rake are often indispensable to the well-being of society, but only if they know when to stop raking the muck.
    Theodore Roosevelt
    American statesman (1858 - 1919)
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  • Benjamin Robbins Curtis The mind as well as the body must be not only strong but well disciplined in order to act with promptness and vigor in new and untried situations. It is hard to turn men's minds from the old and deeply worn channels in which they have long been flowing.
    Benjamin Robbins Curtis
    American attorney (1809 - 1874)
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