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"If I take refuge in ambiguity, I assure you that it's quite conscious."	Kingman Brewster, Jr.
"It is terrifying to see how easily, in certain people, all dignity collapses. Yet when you think about it, this is quite normal since they only maintain this dignity by constantly striving against their own nature."	Albert Camus
"Anything will give up its secrets if you love it enough. Not only have I found that when I talk to the little flower or to the little peanut they will give up their secrets, but I have found that when I silently commune with people they give up their secrets also - if you love them enough."	George Washington Carver
"I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable ... but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing."	Agatha Christie
"The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness."	Joseph Conrad
"Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes."	John Dewey
"Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress; having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future."	Benjamin "Dizzy" Disraeli
"It seems to me we can never give up longing And wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, And we must hunger after them."	George Eliot
"It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime."	Elizabeth II
"It matters if you just don't give up."	Stephen William Hawking
"Quit thinking that you must halt before the barrier of inner negativity. You need not. You can crash through...whatever we see a negative state, that is where we can destroy it."	Vernon Howard
"Sit down before fact like a little child, and be prepared to give up every preconceived notion. Follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss Nature leads, or you shall learn nothing."	Thomas Henry Huxley
"Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and whatever abysses nature leads, or you will learn nothing."	Thomas Henry Huxley
"You must not for one instant give up the effort to build new lives for yourselves. Creativity means to push open the heavy, groaning doorway to life. This is not an easy struggle. Indeed, it may be the most difficult task in the world, for opening the door to your own life is, in the end, more difficult than opening the doors to the mysteries of the universe."	Daisaku Ikeda
"If you think you're too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito in the room."	Anita Koddick
"I promise to keep on living as though I expected to live forever. Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow old by deserting their ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up wrinkles the soul."	Douglas MacArthur
"The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones."	W(illiam) Somerset Maugham
"Man is quite insane. He wouldn't know how to create a maggot, and he creates Gods by the dozen."	Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
"If you achieve success, you will get applause, and if you get applause, you will hear it. My advice to you concerning applause is this; enjoy it but never quite believe it."	Robert Montgomery
"The man who is brutally honest enjoys the brutality quite as much as the honesty. Possibly more."	Richard Needham
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Albert Einstein	Alexander Graham Bell	Angela Monèt
Anita Koddick	Arthur C(harles) Clarke	Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin "Dizzy" Disraeli	Colin Greenwood	Confucius
Conrad Hilton	Daisaku Ikeda	Daniel J(oseph) Boorstin
Doris Lessing	Douglas MacArthur	Douglas Noel Adams
Dr. David M. Burns	Edwin Hubbel Chapin	Elizabeth II
Ella Fitzgerald	Ernest Hello	Frank Luntz
George Eliot	George Herbert Allen	George Washington Carver
Golda Meir	G Gaia	Henry Ward Beecher
Henry Louis Mencken	Herman Hesse	Hermes
Heroditus	Hubert H. Humphrey	I Ching
Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts]	James P. Hogan	John Dewey
Joseph Conrad	Kingman Brewster, Jr.	Marcus Tullius Cicero
Michael Jordon	Michel Eyquem de Montaigne	Mike McLaren
Nadia Boulanger	Nigel Kneale	Patrick Henry
Paul Eldridge	Paul Gruchow	Ralph Waldo Emerson
Raymond Holliwel	Richard Exely	Richard Milhouse Nixon
Richard Needham	Robert Montgomery	Samuel Butler
Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill	Stephen William Hawking	Thomas Henry Huxley
T. Lehrer	T. S. Eliot	Vernon Howard
Vincent Thomas "Vince" Lombardi	Wanda Carter	William S. Gilbert
W(illiam) Somerset Maugham