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Sam Rayburn
No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut.
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English Proverb
Use soft words and hard arguments.
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W. H. Auden
Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness it is the one crime in which society has a direct interest.
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Friedrich Nietzsche
How good bad music and bad reasons sound when one marches against an enemy!
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John Henry Newman
The love of our private friends is the only preparatory exercise for the love of all men.
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French Proverb
There is no flying without wings.
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Rudyard Kipling
Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.
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Carl R. Rogers
The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it.
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Max Ehrmann
You are a child of the Universe, no less than the moon and the stars you have a right to be here. And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the Universe is unfolding as it should.
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Salman Rushdie, O Magazine, April 2003
A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Make yourself necessary to somebody. Do not make life hard to any.
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Roosevelt, Eleanor
A day out-of-doors, someone I loved to talk with, a good book and some simple food and music -- that would be rest.
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