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A random selection of fabulous
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Quotations from Famous People - 176
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Hugo Von Hofmannsthal
To grow mature is to separate more distinctly, to connect more closely.
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Margaret Mead
A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt
No business which depends for its existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country. By living wages I mean more than a bare subsistence level--I mean the wages of decent living.
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Garrison Keillor
I believe in looking reality straight in the eye and denying it.
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Alfred North Whitehead
Seek simplicity, and distrust it.
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Max Planck
A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them to see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.
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Doctor Who
Rest is for the weary, sleep is for the dead.
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Agnes Thornton
Only a weak mind seeks ultimate answers.
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Brock Chisholm
You can only cure retail but you can prevent wholesale.
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Lord Herbert
He that cannot forgive others, breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass if he would ever reach heaven; for everyone has need to be forgiven.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
I see her not dispirited, not weak, but well, remembering that she has seen dark times before, indeed with a kind of instinct that she sees a little better in a cloudy day.
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John Muir
Keep close to Nature's heart... and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean.
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