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  • Ella Wheeler Wilcox Laugh, and the world laughs with you; Weep, and you weep alone; For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth, But has trouble enough of its own.
    Ella Wheeler Wilcox
    American Poet, Journalist (1850 - 1919)
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  • Hubert Humphrey Leadership in today's world requires far more than a large stock of gunboats and a hard fist at the conference table.
    Hubert Humphrey
    American politician (1911 - 1978)
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  • Albert J. Nock Learning has always been made much of, but forgetting has always been deprecated; therefore pedantry has pretty well established itself throughout the modern world at the expense of culture.
    Albert J. Nock
    American libertarian author (1870 - 1945)
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  • Lord Chesterfield Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading men, and studying all the various facets of them.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Robert Baden-Powell Leave this world a little better than you found it.
    Last Message to Scouts (1941)
    Robert Baden-Powell
    British Army officer, writer, author and founder of the Scout Movement (1857 - 1941)
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  • A. J. P. Taylor Lenin was the first to discover that capitalism 'inevitably' caused war; and he discovered this only when the First World War was already being fought. Of course he was right. Since every great state was capitalist in 1914.
    A. J. P. Taylor
    British historian (1906 - 1990)
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  • W. M. Thackeray Let a man who has to make his fortune in life remember this maxim: Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world yields, or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and you will succeed.
    W. M. Thackeray
    Indian-born, British novelist (1811 - 1863)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Socrates Let him that would move the world, first move himself.
    Socrates
    Greek philosopher (469 - 399)
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  • Ferdinand I Let justice be done, though the world perish.
    Original: Fiat justitia et pereat mundus.
    Latin
    Ferdinand I
    Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire (1503 - 1564)
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  • Alfred Lord Tennyson Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change.
    Alfred Lord Tennyson
    English poet (1809 - 1892)
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  • Karl Marx Let the ruling classes tremble at a Communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose, but their chains. .Workers of the world unite!
    Karl Marx
    German economist and state philosopher (1818 - 1883)
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  • Fanny Brice Let the world know you as you are, not as you think you should be, because sooner or later, if you are posing, you will forget the pose, and then where are you?
    Fanny Brice
    American comedienne and singer (1891 - 1951)
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  • Bernard M. Baruch Let us not deceive ourselves; we must elect world peace or world destruction.
    Bernard M. Baruch
    American investor, philanthropist, statesman, and political consultant (1870 - 1965)
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  • Epictetus Liars are the cause of all the sins and crimes in the world.
    Epictetus
    Roman philosopher (50 - 130)
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  • Earl Warren Liberty, not communism, is the most contagious force in the world.
    Earl Warren
    American jurist and politician (1891 - 1974)
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  • Aldous Huxley Liberty? Why it doesn't exist. There is no liberty in this world, just gilded cages.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Emily Carr Life's an awfully lonesome affair. You come into the world alone and you go out of the world alone yet it seems to me you are more alone while living than even going and coming.
    Emily Carr
    Canadian artist and writer (1871 - 1945)
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  • Carol Ann Duffy Light gatherer. You fell from a star
    into my lap, the soft lamp at the bedside
    mirrored in you,
    and now you shine like a snowgirl,
    a buttercup under a chin, the wide blue yonder
    you squeal at and fly in.
    The Light Gatherer, from Feminine Gospels (2002)
    Carol Ann Duffy
    British poet and playwright (1955 - )
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  • Beau Willimon Like any young person who gets into a political campaign, I joined out of a highfalutin' desire to change the world. But you start to see the sort of tactics people use. You start to see politics not only in the macro but in the micro of the campaign itself. Some people get turned off by this side of it. Other people are drawn to it.
    Beau Willimon
    American playwright and screenwriter (1977 - )
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