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-- H. Jackson Brown Entertainment The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
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-- Robert Browning The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
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-- Friedrich Nietzsche If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
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I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
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-- Billie Holliday If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
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-- William Penn A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
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-- Voltaire Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
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-- Clarence Darrow Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
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I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
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