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Ronald Reagan
Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.
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Henry Ward Beecher
Repentance is another name for aspiration.
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Jose Ortega y Gasset
Order is not pressure which is imposed on society from without, but an equilibrium which is set up from within.
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Margaret Atwood
We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly.
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Langston Hughes
Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.
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Norman Lewis Smith
My boy will learn by what I am and what I do far more than what I tell him.
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George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman (1903) "Maxims for Revolutionists"
Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing.
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Ulysses S. Grant
Labor disgraces no man unfortunately you occasionally find men disgrace labor.
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Neil Postman
Because he did not have time to read every new book in his field, the great Polish anthropologist Bronislaw Malinowski used a simple and efficient method of deciding which ones were worth his attention: Upon receiving a new book, he immediately checked the index to see if his name was cited, and how often. The more Malinowski the more compelling the book. No Malinowski, and he doubted the subject of the book was anthropology at all.
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George Washington Carver
How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and the strong -- because someday you will have been all of these.
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Denis Watley
You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes.
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Johann Georg von Zimmermann
Open your mouth and purse cautiously, and your stock of wealth and reputation shall, at least in repute, be great.
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