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Quotations from Famous People - 159
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Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
I know of no great men except those who have rendered great service to the human race.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
We aim above the mark to hit the mark.
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Orville Wright
No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris ... because no known motor can run at the requisite speed for four days without stopping.
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Lois McMaster Bujold, "Shards of Honor", 1986
An honor is not diminished for being shared.
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Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill
When you get a thing the way you want it, leave it alone.
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George Bernhard Shaw
English is the easiest language to speak badly.
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Rabindranath Tagore
The mountain remains unmoved at seeming defeat by the mist.
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Doctor Who
First things first, but not necessarily in that order.
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Kahlil Gibran
Poverty is a veil that obscures the face of greatness. An appeal is a mask covering the face of tribulation.
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Cathy Ladman
My parents only had one argument in forty-five years. It lasted forty-three years.
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Doris Lessing
In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools.
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Kent "Sparky" Gregory
Without an adequate theory, reality is irrelevant.
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