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Clever Famous People Sayings - 148
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William Arthur Wood
Leadership is based on inspiration, not domination; on cooperation, not intimidation.
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Ivan Illich
At the moment of death I hope to be surprised.
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Samuel Johnson
I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.
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Missy Dizick
Some people say that cats are sneaky, evil, and cruel. True, and they have many other fine qualities as well.
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George Eliot
I do not believe that any writer has ever exposed this bovaryisme, the human will to see things as they are not, more clearly than Shakespeare.
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Jane Austen
One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it unless it has all been suffering, nothing but suffering.
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Bertrand Russell
I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn't wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine.
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Malcolm X
Sitting at the table doesn't make you a diner, unless you eat some of what's on that plate. Being here in America doesn't make you an American. Being born here in America doesn't make you an American.
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Marcel Proust
The bonds that unite another person to ourselves exist only in our mind. Memory as it grows fainter relaxes them, and notwithstanding the illusion by which we would fain be cheated and with which, out of love, friendship, politeness, deference, duty, we cheat other people, we exist alone. Man is the creature that cannot emerge from himself, that knows his fellows only in himself when he asserts the contrary, he is lying.
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Jane Goodall
Roots creep under the ground to make a firm foundation. Shoots seems new and small, but to reach the light they can break through brick walls.
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Thomas A. Edison
To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.
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George Santayana
A man is morally free when, in full possession of his living humanity, he judges the world, and judges other men, with uncompromising sincerity.
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