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"A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep."	Saul Bellow
"A great many people have come up to me and asked me how I manage to get so much work done and still keep looking so dissipated. My answer is 'Don't you wish you knew?'"	Robert Charles Benchley
"'And yet,' demanded Councilor Barlow, 'what's he done? Has he ever done a day's work in his life? What great cause is he identified with?' 'He's identified,' said the first speaker, 'with the great cause of cheering us all up.'"	(Enoch) Arnold Bennett
"The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one is."	Thomas Arnold Bennett
"Most certification today is pure 'credentialism.' [It] must begin to reflect our demand for excellence, not our appreciation of parchment."	William John Bennett
"Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity. The lessons of the ordinary are everywhere. Truly profound and original insights are to be found only in studying the exemplary."	Warren G. Bennis
"Great things are accomplished by talented people who believe they will accomplish them."	Warren G. Bennis
"I may climb perhaps to no great heights, but I will climb alone."	Cyrano Savinien de Bergerac
"Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils."	(Louis) Hector Berlioz
"The key to the mystery of a great artist is that for reasons unknown, he will give away his energies and his life just to make sure that one note follows another . . . and leaves us with the feeling that something is right in the world."	Leonard Bernstein
"Any great work of art revives and readapts time and space, and the measure of its success is the extent to which it makes you an inhabitant of that world -- the extent to which it invites you in and lets you breathe its strange, special air."	Leonard Bernstein
"The abuse of greatness is when it disjoins remorse from power."	Mary Bertone
"A man of great common sense and good taste, meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage."	Sir Walter Besant
"I won't say there aren't any Harvard graduates who have never asserted a superior attitude. But they have done so to our great embarrassment and in no way represent the Harvard I know."	Derek Bethune
"I have made a great discovery. What I love belongs to me. Not the chairs and tables in my house, but the masterpieces of the world. It is only a question of loving them enough."	Elizabeth Asquith Bibesco
"But he that is the greatest among you shall be your servant. And whosoever shall exalt himself shall be abused; and he that shall humble himself shall be exalted."	Matthew 23:11, 12 Bible
"There is that maketh himself rich, yet hath nothing: there is that maketh himself poor, yet hath great riches."	Proverbs 13:7 Bible
"Callous, adj. Gifted with great fortitude to bear the evils afflicting another."	Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
"A great many open minds should be closed for repairs."	Toledo Blade
"The truth is that all of us attain the greatest success and happiness possible in this life whenever we use our native capacities to their greatest extent."	Smiley Blanton
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Alexander Michael	Alice James	Alighieri Dante
Alphonse Marie Louis de Lamartine	Alvaro de Solva	Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
Anatole France	Andrew Carnegie	Anita Brookner
Anne Frank	Ann Landers	Antoine Laurent Lavoisier
Archibald Cox	Aristotle	Arthur McNallan
Athenæus	Augustus W. Hare	Ayatullah Khamenei
A(ngelo) Bartlett Giamatti	Baltasar Gracian	Becky Alunan
Benjamin Franklin	Benjamin Jowett	Benjamin "Dizzy" Disraeli
Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle	Bette Greene	Bruce Lee
Buddha	Carl Gustav Jung	Cesare Lombroso
Charles Caleb Colton	Charles Dickens	Charles Austin Beard
Charles A. Cerami	Charles Kingsley	Charles Robert Darwin
Chitto Harjo	Chuang-Tzu	Cindy Lew
Claude M. Bristol	Claudia Alta Taylor Johnson	Clifton Paul Fadiman
Clive Staples Lewis	Coleman Cox	Colin Greenwood
Comte de Bussy-Rabnutin	Comte de Bussy-Rabutin	Confucius
Corazón Cojuangco Aquino	Cyrano Savinien de Bergerac	Cyril Connolley
C. D. Jackson	Daniel J(oseph) Boorstin	Dave Barry
Dave Navarro	David Ashley Brewer	David L(yle) Boren
David Star Jordan	Dean Koontz	Dee W. Hock
Democritus	Demosthenes	Derek Bethune
Desmond Morris	Dietrich Bonhoeffer	Doris Lessing
Doug Larson	Dr. Samuel Johnson	Dr. Thomas Fuller
Dwight David Eisenhower	D(avid) H(erbert) Lawrence	Edmund Burke
Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton	Edward Morgan Forster	Edwin Holt Hughes
Elbert Hubbard	Elizabeth Ashley	Elizabeth Asquith Bibesco
Elizabeth Hardwick	Elizabeth II	Eli Khamarov
Elmer Holmes Davis	Emma Goldman	Epictetus
Epicurus	Erich Fromm	Eric Anderson
Eric Hoffer	Erma Louise Bombeck	Ernest Miller Hemingway
Eugene Forsey	Eugene V. Debs	Euripides
E(li) Joseph Cossman	Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky	Forest McDonald
Frank Moore Colby	Franklin P. Adams	Frederick Chiluba
Freeman John Dyson	Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche	F(rancis) Scott
General Charles De Gaulle	George Eliot	George Ellis
George Herbert Walker Bush	George-Louis Leclerc de Buffon	George Lucas
George Stanley McGovern	George Washington Allston	Gerald R. Ford
Gilbert Keith Chesterton	Giosue Borsi	Golda Meir
Grover Cleveland	Hal Borland	Harry Emerson Fosdick
Harry Gray	Heinrich Heine	Helen Adams Keller
Henry Ford	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	Henry Ward Beecher
Henry Alfred Kissinger	Henry Brooks Adams	Henry Fielding
Henry Grube	Henry Louis Mencken	Henry S. Hoskins
Herbert Butterfield	Herbert Clark Hoover	Heroditus
Hesiod	Homer	Honoré de Balzac
Horace Bushnell	Hubert H. Humphrey	Ira Erwin
Isaac Asimov	I Ching	Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts]
James Earl Jones	James Earl "Jimmy" Carter, Jr.	James Russel Lowell
James Scott "Jimmy" Connors	James Truslow Adams	Jawaharial Nehru
Jay Edward Adams	Jean Babtiste Henri Lacordaire	Jean de La Bruyère
Jerome Klapka Jerome	Jerry Garcia	Jesse Louis Jackson
Jesus	Joel H. Hildebrand	Joe Moore
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe	Johathan Edwards	John Dewey
John Keats	John Lennon	John A. Appleman
John B. Gough	John Corry	John Dryden
John Fitzgerald Kennedy	John Kenneth Galbraith	John L. Motley
John Maynard Keynes	John Morley	John Newton
John Quincy Adams	John W(illiam) Gardner	John W. Hanley
Joseph Addison	Joseph Conrad	Joseph Hall
Jose Ortega y Gasset	Jules Feiffer	Julie Arabi
J. Martin Kohe	J. Russel Lynes	Kahlil Gibran
Kingman Brewster, Jr.	Kitaro Nishida	Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
Laertius Diogenes	Lao-Tzu	Larry McMurty
Leonard Bernstein	Leonardo da Vinci	Leonard Nimoy
Lido Anthony "Lee" Iacocca	Lord Melbourne	Louisa May Alcott
Louise Hay	Louis Dembitz Brandeis	Louis Kronenberger
Lucretius	Lyndon Baines Johnson	Madeleine L'Engle
Maggie Kuhn	Marabel Morgan	Marcus Tullius Cicero
Mark McGee	Marquis de Sade	Martin Luther King, Jr.
Marya Mannes	Mary Bertone	Mary Kay Ash
Matthew Arnold	Matthew 23:11, 12 Bible	Maurice Baring
Maya Angelou	Mencius	Michael R. Baer
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne	Mignon McLaughlin	Miguel de Cervantes
Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev	Millicent Carey McIntosh	Moshe Arens
Napolean Bonaparte	Napolean Hill	Nathaniel Hawthorne
Native American	Nelson Boswell	Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela
Newt Gingrich	Niccolo Machiavelli	Nicholas Boileau
Noel Coward	Norman Cousins	Norman R. Augustine
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.	Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.	Omar Khayyám
Orison Swett Marden	Orlando A. Battista	Oswald Mosley
Patrick Henry	Paul Aubuchon	Pearl Bailey
Pearl Sydenstricker Buck	Pedro Calderon de la Barca	Peter Marshall
Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield	Phillips Brooks	Pierre Charron
Pietro Aretino	Piet Hein	Proverbs 13:7 Bible
P(hineas) T(aylor) Barnum	Rachel Louise Carson	Ralph Waldo Emerson
Rene Descartes	Rensis Likert	Richard Milhouse Nixon
Richard Moss, M.D.	Robertson Davies	Robert Burton
Robert Charles Benchley	Robert Francis Kennedy	Robert Green Ingersoll
Robert J. Collier	Robert Lee Frost	Robert Staughton Lynd
Roger Anderson	Romare Beardon	Rosalynn Smith Carter
Roy E. Moody	Russell Hoban	R. J. Baughan
Sally Koch	Samuel Adams	Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Samuel Butler	Sam(uel) James Ervin, Jr.	Saul Bellow
Shana Alexander	Siddha Nagarjuna	Sidney Madwed
Sid Ceaser	Sigmund Freud	Sir Charles Spencer "Charlie" Chaplin
Sir Francis Bacon	Sir Harold George Nicolson	Sir Isaac Newton
Sir James Matthew Barrie	Sir John Lubbock	Sir Thomas Bowell Buxton
Sir Walter Besant	Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill	Smiley Blanton
Sophie Kerr	Stephen Butler Leacock	Stephen Fry
Stephen Jobs	Sue Atchley Ebaugh	Susan Johnson
Sydney J. Harris	Sylvia Bremer	The Dhammapada
Thomas Carlyle	Thomas Jefferson	Thomas Alva Edison
Thomas Arnold Bennett	Thomas Babington	Thomas Henry Huxley
Thomas Mincher	Tibetan Doctrine	Toledo Blade
Tom Naylor	Truman Capote	Tryon Edwards
Ursula K. LeGuin	Victor Hugo	Vincent Thomas "Vince" Lombardi
Václav Havel	Walter Bagehot	Walter Gagehot
Warren G. Bennis	Wernher Magnus Maximilian von Braun	Willa Sibert Cather
William Hazlitt	William James	William Cullen Bryant
William Ellery Channing	William Franklin "Billy" Graham	William Gordon
William John Bennett	William L. DeAndrea	Woody Allen
Wystan Hugh Auden	W(illiam) Somerset Maugham	(Enoch) Arnold Bennett
(Karl) Gunnar Myrdal	(Louis) Hector Berlioz	(Matthew) Heywood
(Sarah) Margaret Fuller	Æschylus