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Quotations from Famous People - 41
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Publilius Syrus
A good reputation is more valuable than money.
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Marcel Duchamp
The creative act is not performed by the artist alone; the spectator brings the work in contact with the external world by deciphering and interpreting its inner qualifications and thus adds his contribution to the creative act.
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Karl Menninger
Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward. When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand.
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.
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Jeannette Rankin
You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.
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Latin Proverb
It is honourable to be accused by those who deserve to be accused.
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Pierre Elliott Trudeau
I bear solemn witness to the fact that NATO heads of state and of government meet only to go through the tedious motions of reading speeches, drafted by others, with the principal objective of not rocking the boat.
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Dwight D Eisenhower
Don't think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.
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Dwight D Eisenhower
Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can complel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together.
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Charles Franklin Kettering
An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots.
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Thomas H. Huxley
Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.
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John Holt
No use to shout at them to pay attention. If the situations, the materials, the problems before the child do not interest him, his attention will slip off to what does interest him, and no amount of exhortation of threats will bring it back.
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