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Thomas Alva Edison
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
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John Adams, On his bed, not knowing Jefferson had died only a few hours earlier-July 4th, 1826
Thomas Jefferson still lives.
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Robin Renwick
No matter how much spin, effort, lunch or dinner you give the media, they will not fail to notice whether you have won or lost.
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Brenda Ueland
Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. When we really listen to people there is an alternating current, and this recharges us so that we never get tired of each other. We are constantly being re-created.
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Anwar el Sadat
Russians can give you arms but only the United States can give you a solution.
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Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, German Ideology, Chapter 3
One of the most difficult tasks confronting philosophers is to descend from the world of thought to the actual world. Language is the immediate actuality of thought. Just as philosophers have given thought an independent existence, so they were bound to make language into an independent realm.
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William Ralph Inge
It takes in reality only one to make a quarrel. It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favour of vegetarianism while the wolf remains of a different opinion.
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Franklin P. Jones
The quickest and shortest way to crush whatever laurels you have won is for you to rest on them.
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James A. Perkins
The acquisition of knowledge is the mission of research, the transmission of knowledge is the mission of teaching and the application of knowledge is the mission of public service.
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Sophocles
The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
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Ashley Montague
The deepest human defeat suffered by human beings is constituted by the difference between what one was capable of becoming and what one has in fact become.
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Ingrid Bergman
A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.
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