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  • Bill Hicks Speaking of Satan, I was watching Rush Limbaugh the other day. Doesn't Rush Limbaugh remind you of one of those gay guys that like to lie in a tub while other guys pee on him?
    Filling Up the Hump
    Bill Hicks
    American stand-up comedian, social critic, satirist and musician (1961 - 1994)
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  • George Eliot Speech is often barren; but silence also does not necessarily brood over a full nest. Your still fowl, blinking at you without remark, may all the while be sitting on one addled egg; and when it takes to cackling will have nothing to announce but that addled delusion.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Bob Newhart Stammering is different than stuttering. Stutterers have trouble with the letters, while stammerers trip over entire parts of a sentence. We stammerers generally think of ourselves as very bright.
    Bob Newhart
    American stand-up comedian and actor (1929 - )
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  • Abraham Cowley Stones of small worth may lie unseen by day, But night itself does the rich gem betray.
    Abraham Cowley
    English poet (1618 - 1667)
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  • George Eliot Strange, that some of us, with quick alternate vision, see beyond our infatuations, and even while we rave on the heights, behold the wide plain where our persistent self pauses and awaits us.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Andrew Grove Stressing output is the key to improving productivity, while looking to increase activity can result in just the opposite.
    Andrew Grove
    Hungarian-born American businessman, engineer and author (1936 - 2016)
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  • Bo Bennett Success is about enjoying what you have and where you are, while pursuing achievable goals.
    Year to Success
    Bo Bennett
    American author (1972 - )
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  • Booker T. Washington Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which one has overcome while trying to succeed.
    Booker T. Washington
    American Black Leader and Educator (1856 - 1915)
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  • Lady Blessington Superstition is only the fear of belief, while religion is the confidence.
    Lady Blessington
    Irish novelist, journalist, and literary hostess (1789 - 1849)
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  • Billy Graham Suppose you could gain everything in the whole world, and lost your soul. Was it worth it?
    Billy Graham
    American Evangelist (1918 - 2018)
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  • Betty Buckley T Bone and I grew up together in Fort Worth, Texas. He had his own recording studio by the time he was seventeen years old. When we were both nineteen he made the first archival recording of my voice.
    Betty Buckley
    American actress and singer (1947 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Take notes on the spot: a note is worth a cartload of recollection.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Jean Anouilh Talent is like a faucet; while it is open, you have to write. Inspiration? - a hoax fabricated by poets for their self-importance.
    Jean Anouilh
    French playwright (1910 - 1987)
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  • Ezra Pound Technique is the test of sincerity. If a thing isn't worth getting the technique to say, it is of inferior value.
    Ezra Pound
    American poet (1885 - 1972)
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  • George Santayana That life is worth living is the most necessary of assumptions, and were it not assumed, the most impossible of conclusions.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • Grit That person proves his worth who can make us want to listen when he is with us and think when he is gone.
    Grit
     
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  • Bai Juyi That we wished to fly in heaven, two birds with the wings of one,
    And to grow together on the earth, two branches of one tree.
    Earth endures, heaven endures; some time both shall end,
    While this unending sorrow goes on and on for ever.
    The Song of Long Sorrow
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  • William Shakespeare That what we have, we prize not to the worth
    whiles we enjoy it; but being lack'd and lost,
    why, than we rack the value.
    Much ado about nothing (1598)
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Albert Einstein The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Theodore Roosevelt The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.
    Theodore Roosevelt
    American statesman (1858 - 1919)
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