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  • Algernon Sydney A general presumption that Icings will govern well, is not a sufficient security to the People... those who subjected themselves to the will of a man were governed by a beast.
    Algernon Sydney
    English politician (1623 - 1683)
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  • Boutros Boutros-Ghali A genocide in Africa has not received the same attention that genocide in Europe or genocide in Turkey or genocide in other part of the world. There is still this kind of basic discrimination against the African people and the African problems.
    Boutros Boutros-Ghali
    Egyptian politician and diplomat (1922 - 2016)
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  • Quentin Crisp A gentleman doesn't pounce he glides. If a woman sits on a piece of furniture which permits your sitting beside her, you are free to regard this as an invitation, though not an unequivocal one.
    Quentin Crisp
    English writer and actor (1908 - 1999)
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  • William Butler Yeats A gentleman is a man whose principal ideas are not connected with his personal needs and his personal succes.
    William Butler Yeats
    Irish poet (1865 - 1939)
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  • Frederick Douglas A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
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  • Seneca A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Betty Friedan A girl should not expect special privileges because of her sex but neither should she 'adjust' to prejudice and discrimination.
    Source: The Feminine Mystique Ch. 1 The Problem That Has No Name
    Betty Friedan
    American feministisch writer (1921 - 2006)
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  • Igor Stravinsky A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
    Igor Stravinsky
    Russian composer (1882 - 1971)
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  • John Mason Brown A good conversationalist is not one who remembers what was said, but says what someone wants to remember.
    John Mason Brown
    American drama critic and author (1900 - 1969)
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  • Kenneth Tynan A good drama critic is one who perceives what is happening in the theatre of his time. A great drama critic also perceives what is not happening.
    Kenneth Tynan
    English theater critic and writer (1927 - 1980)
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  • Virginia Woolf A good essay must have this permanent quality about it; it must draw its curtain round us, but it must be a curtain that shuts us in not out.
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • A. Brisbane A good friend can tell you what is the matter with you in a minute. He may not seem such a good friend after telling.
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  • Wilson Mizner A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he knows something.
    Wilson Mizner
    American Author (1876 - 1933)
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  • Bruce Lee A good martial artist does not become tense, but ready. Not thinking, yet not dreaming. Ready for whatever may come. When the opponent expands, I contract; and when he contracts, I expand. And when there is an opportunity, I do not hit, it hits all by itself.
    Source: Bruce Lee: Enter the Dragon (1973)
    Bruce Lee
    Chinese-American Actor, Director, Author, Martial Artist (1940 - 1973)
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  • Frank Crane A good motto is: Use friendliness but do not use your friends.
    Frank Crane
    American actor
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  • John Milton A good principle not rightly understood may prove as hurtful as a bad.
    John Milton
    English poet, polemicist and man of letters (1608 - 1674)
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  • Lao-Tzu A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent upon arriving. A good artist lets his intuition lead him wherever it wants.
    Lao-Tzu
    Chinese philosopher (600 - 550)
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  • Anton Chekhov A good upbringing means not that you won't spill sauce on the tablecloth, but that you won't notice it when someone else does.
    Anton Chekhov
    Russian playwright and short story writer
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  • Josh Billings A good way I know to find happiness, is to not bore a hole to fit the plug.
    Josh Billings
    American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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  • Isaac Bashevis Singer A good writer is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind.
    Isaac Bashevis Singer
    Polish Yiddish writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1978) (1902 - 1991)
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