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  • Anne Perry Of course there will be disappointments and the way will not always be as I expected it. But if it seemed easy, then that would be the time to worry that I am on the wrong path.
    Anne Perry
    English author (1938 - )
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  • Phyllis Mcginley Of course we women gossip on occasion. But our appetite for it is not as avid as a man s. It is in the boys gyms, the college fraternity houses, the club locker rooms, the paneled offices of business that gossip reaches its luxuriant flower.
    Phyllis Mcginley
    American poet and author (1905 - 1978)
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  • Carole Bouquet Of course when I started, it's not because I was such a brilliant actress. I didn't know I was good. I thought I was really bad. I was very shy. I was 18 and dreaming of becoming an actress.
    Carole Bouquet
    French actress and fashion (1957 - )
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  • Richard Buckminster Fuller Of course, our failures are a consequence of many factors, but possibly one of the most important is the fact that society operates on the theory that specialization is the key to success, not realizing that specialization precludes comprehensive thinking.
    Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth (1963)
    Richard Buckminster Fuller
    American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, and inventor (1895 - 1983)
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  • Abraham Pais Of course, relative citation frequencies are no measure of relative importance. Who has not aspired to write a paper so fundamental that very soon it is known to everyone and cited by no one?.
    Abraham Pais
    Dutch-American physicist (1918 - 2000)
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  • Adolf Galland Of course, the outcome of the war would not have been changed. The war was lost perhaps, when it was started. At least it was lost in the winter of '42, in Russia.
    Adolf Galland
    German Luftwaffe general (1912 - 1996)
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  • Barack Obama Of course, violence will not end with our combat mission. Extremists will continue to set off bombs, attack Iraqi civilians and try to spark sectarian strife. But ultimately, these terrorists will fail to achieve their goals.
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Robert Blair Of joys departed, not to return, how painful the remembrance!
    The Grave 109
    Robert Blair
    Scottish poet (1699 - 1746)
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  • Confucius Of neighborhoods, benevolence is the most beautiful. How can the man be considered wise who when he had the choice does not settle in benevolence.
    Confucius
    Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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  • Alfred de Vigny Of what use is the memory of facts, if not to serve as an example of good or of evil?
    Alfred de Vigny
    French poet and writer (1797 - 1863)
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  • George Eliot Of what use, however, is a general certainty that an insect will not walk with his head hindmost, when what you need to know is the play of inward stimulus that sends him hither and thither in a network of possible paths?
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Andrew Taylor Still Of what value is a mind when placed in the brain of a coward? If mind is a gift of God to man for his use, let him use it. A mind is not in use when doing no good.
    Andrew Taylor Still
    American physician and surgeon (1828 - 1917)
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  • Mark Twain Often it seems a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Maxwell Maltz Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act.
    Maxwell Maltz
    American surgeon and author (1889 - 1975)
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  • Conte Di Alfieri Vittorio Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
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  • Alfred Lord Tennyson Oh for someone with a heart, head and hand. Whatever they call them, what do I care, aristocrat, democrat, autocrat, just be it one that can rule and dare not lie.
    Alfred Lord Tennyson
    English poet (1809 - 1892)
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  • Arthur Eddington Oh leave the Wise our measures to collate. One thing at least is certain, light has weight. One thing is certain and the rest debate. Light rays, when near the Sun, do not go straight.
    Arthur Eddington
    English astronomer, physicist, and mathematician (1882 - 1944)
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  • Bertolt Brecht Oh why do we not say the important things, it would be so easy, and we are damned because we do not.
    Poems, 1913-1956 Song about my mother [Lied von meiner Mutter], fro
    Bertolt Brecht
    German - Austrian writer (1898 - 1956)
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  • Bayard Taylor Oh! what waves of crime and bloodshed have swept like the waves of a deluge down the valley of the Rhine! War has laid his mailed hand on those desolate towers and ruthlessly torn down what time has spared, yet he could not mar the beauty of the shore, nor could Time himself hurl down the mountains that guard it.
    Bayard Taylor
    American poet, travel author, and diplomat (1825 - 1878)
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  • Oscar Wilde Oh, duty is what one expects from others, it is not what one does oneself.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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