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Quotations from Famous People - 170
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Robin Green
My masculinity isn't hinged on whether or not I knit.
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Anon.
You don't love a woman because she is beautiful, but she is beautiful because you love her.
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William Shakespeare
His life was gentle; and the elements So mixed in him, that Nature might stand up,
And say to all the world, THIS WAS A MAN!
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St. Francis of Assissi
Witness at all times. If necessary, use words.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
He is great who confers the most benefits.
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William Shakespeare
This fellow's wise enough to play the fool, And to do that well craves a kind of wit.
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Stephen King
If you don't have the time to read, you don't have the time or the tools to write.
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Chateaubriand
What importance can we attach to the things of this world? Friendship? It disappears when the one who is liked comes to grief, or the one who likes becomes powerful. Love? it is deceived, fleeting, or guilty. Fame? You share it with mediocrity or crime. Fortune? Could that frivolity be counted a blessing? All that remains are those so-called happy days that flow past unnoticed in the obscurity of domestic cares, leaving man with the desire neither to lose his life nor to begin it over.
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Abraham Lincoln
I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside me.
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Rainer Maria Rilke
Do continue to believe that with your feeling and your work you are taking part in the greatest the more strongly you cultivate this belief, the more will reality and the world go forth from it.
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Reverend W. Awdry (1911 - 1997)
Of the parralels between the railways and the church both had their heyday in the mid-nineteenth century; both own a great deal of Gothic-style architecture which is expensive to maintain; both are regularly assailed by critics; and both are firmly convinced that they are the best means of getting man to his ultimate destination.
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Charles de Gaulle
To govern is always to choose among disadvantages.
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