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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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  • Joseph Conrad The mind of man is capable of anything - because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the future.
    Joseph Conrad
    In Poland born English writer (1857 - 1924)
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  • Oscar Wilde The mind of the thoroughly well-informed man is a dreadful thing. It is like a bric-à-brac shop, all monsters and dust, with everything priced above its proper value.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Ian McEwan The moment you lose curiosity in the world, you might as well be dead.
    Ian McEwan
    English novelist and screenwriter (1948 - )
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  • David Ogilvy The most important word in the vocabulary of advertising is TEST. If you pretest your product with consumers, and pretest your advertising, you will do well in the marketplace.
    David Ogilvy
    American businessman, Advertising Expert (1911 - 1999)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken The most valuable of all human possessions, next to a superior and disdainful air, is the reputation of being well-to-do.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Bayard Taylor The native Jewish families in Jerusalem, as well as those in other parts of Palestine, present a marked difference to the Jews of Europe and America. They possess the same physical characteristics - the dark, oblong eye, the prominent nose, the strongly-marked cheek and jaw - but in the latter, these traits have become harsh and coarse.
    Bayard Taylor
    American poet, travel author, and diplomat (1825 - 1878)
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  • Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn The next war... may well bury Western civilization forever.
    Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn
    Russian Novelist (1918 - 2008)
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  • David Brinkley The one function that TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with the same emphasis as if there were.
    David Brinkley
    American newsreader (1920 - 2003)
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  • James Russell Lowell The only faith that wears well and holds its color in all weathers is that which is woven of conviction and set with the sharp mordant of experience.
    James Russell Lowell
    American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat (1819 - 1891)
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  • Ayn Rand The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws.
    Ayn Rand
    Russian Writer, Philosopher (1905 - 1982)
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  • Niels Bohr The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.
    Niels Bohr
    Danish scientist and physicist (1885 - 1962)
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  • Billy Ray Cyrus The people at the record company had asked me if I could write a song about my life, my relationship with God, and where I'm from. Well, I can't write a song on purpose, my songs come in a moment of inspiration or desperation.
    Billy Ray Cyrus
    American singer-songwriter and actor (1961 - )
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  • Robert Herrick The person lives twice who lives the first life well.
    Robert Herrick
    English lyric poet and cleric (1591 - 1674)
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  • Lord George Byron The place is very well and quiet and the children only scream in a low voice.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Francis Bacon The poets did well to conjoin music and medicine, because the office of medicine is but to tune the curious harp of man's body.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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