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  • Bertolt Brecht No one will improve your lot if you do not yourself.
    Bertolt Brecht
    German - Austrian writer (1898 - 1956)
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  • Samuel Johnson No one will persist long in helping someone who will not help themselves.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Edward Dahlberg No people require maxims so much as the American. The reason is obvious: the country is so vast, the people always going somewhere, from Oregon apple valley to boreal New England, that we do not know whether to be temperate orchards or sterile climate.
    Edward Dahlberg
    American novelist, essayist and autobiographer (1900 - 1977)
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  • Alfred N. Whitehead No period of history has ever been great or ever can be that does not act on some sort of high, idealistic motives, and idealism in our time has been shoved aside, and we are paying the penalty for it.
    Alfred N. Whitehead
    English philosopher and mathematician (1861 - 1947)
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  • Thomas Carlyle No person was every rightly understood until they had been first regarded with a certain feeling, not of tolerance, but of sympathy.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • John Ruskin No person who is not a great sculptor or painter can be an architect. If he is not a painter or sculptor, he can only be a builder.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Cal Thomas No power on earth is greater than a mind and soul reawakened. Our Constitution begins 'we the people', not 'us the government'.
    Cal Thomas
    American columnist and author (1942 - )
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  • Anton Chekhov No psychologist should pretend to understand what he does not understand... Only fools and charlatans know everything and understand nothing.
    Anton Chekhov
    Russian playwright and short story writer
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  • Woodrow Wilson No student knows his subject: the most he knows is where and how to find out the things he does not know.
    Woodrow Wilson
    American president (1856 - 1924)
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  • André Gide No theory is good unless it permits, not rest, but the greatest work. No theory is good except on condition that one use it to go on beyond.
    André Gide
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1947) (1869 - 1951)
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  • Edgar Sheffield Brightman No totalitarians, no wars, no fears, famines or perils of any kind can really break a man's spirit until he breaks it himself by surrendering. Tyranny has many dread powers, but not the power to rule the spirit.
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  • Sir John Robert Seeley No virtue is safe that is not enthusiastic.
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  • Margaret Sanger No woman can call herself free who does not own and control her body. No woman can call herself free until she can choose consciously whether she will or will not be a mother.
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  • Oscar Wilde No work of art ever puts forward views. Views belong to people who are not artists.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • T. S. Eliot No! I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be: am an attendant lord, one that will do to swell a progress, start a scene or two, advise the prince.
    T. S. Eliot
    British essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic (1888 - 1965)
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  • Bill Clinton No, because I didn't get him. But at least I tried. That's the difference me and some, including all the right-wingers who are attacking me now. They ridiculed me for trying. They had eight months to try. They did not try. I tried.
    Source: Interview with Chris Wallace, FOX News Sunday, September 24, 2006
    Bill Clinton
    President of the US (1946 - )
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  • Oscar Wilde No, Ernest, don't talk about action. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Benazir Bhutto No, I am not pregnant. I am fat. And, as the Prime Minister, its my right to be fat if I want to.
    Source: When asked by a journalist if she was pregnant again, as quoted in Benazir, the steely and vulnerable by Lyse Doucet in BBC News (29 December 2007)
    Benazir Bhutto
    Pakistani politician (1953 - 2007)
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  • Alan Turing No, I'm not interested in developing a powerful brain. All I'm after is just a mediocre brain, something like the President of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company.
    Alan Turing
    English mathematician and computer scientist (1912 - 1954)
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