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When you strike at a king, you must kill him.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
One picture is worth a thousand words.: Fred R. Barnard
Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.: Miguel de Cervantes (1547 - 1616)
The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without 'playing up' to anyone - even to himself.: Andre Malraux (1901 - 1976)
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The only sure thing about luck is that it will change.: Bret Harte (1836 - 1902)
Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists.: John Kenneth Galbraith (1908 - 2006)
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I do not confer praise or blame: I accept. I am the measure of all things. I am the centre of the world.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), 'Of Human Bondage', 1915
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I think people want their illusions and writers are mostly illusion. When you read their words, you read a flattened, incomplete version of the writer.: Gordon Atkinson, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, January 05, 2004
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A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he gets to know something.: Wilson Mizner (1876 - 1933)
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Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.: Socrates (469 BC - 399 BC)
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The things that make us safest from others make us least from ourselves.: Danah Boyd, apophenia, 01-08-07
It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - in finding themselves.: Andre Gide (1869 - 1951)
Truly great madness cannot be achieved without significant intelligence.: Henrik Tikkanen
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What you do, the way you think, makes you beautiful.: Scott Westerfeld, Uglies, 2005
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We were happily married for eight months. Unfortunately, we were married for four and a half years.: Nick Faldo
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The only road to good shows is bad ones. Just go start having a bad time, and if you don't give up, you will get better.: Louis C. K., Reddit, 2012
If courage wasn't a standard result of aging, it meant that the young could somehow acquire it as well.: Lawana Blackwell, The Courtship of the Vicar's Daughter, 1998
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I live in the present due to the constraints of the Space-Time Continuum.: Hank Green
The older I get, the greater power I seem to have to help the world; I am like a snowball - the further I am rolled, the more I gain.: Susan B. Anthony (1820 - 1906)
Always be ready to speak your mind and a base man will avoid you.: William Blake (1757 - 1827)