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Quotes by American Authors

"I consider myself a non-denominational Christian. I grew up in a Bible church and still hold those beliefs very close to me."
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Jensen Ackles
"I consider myself a non-denominational Christian. I grew up in a Bible church and still hold those beliefs very close to me."
"Persistence is very important. You should not give up unless you are forced to give up."
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Elon Musk
"Persistence is very important. You should not give up unless you are forced to give up."
"If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things."
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Saul Bellow
"If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things."
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"The law must be stable, but it must not stand still."
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Roscoe Pound
"The law must be stable, but it must not stand still."
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"I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free... so other people would be also free."
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Rosa Parks
"I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free... so other people would be also free."
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"Junk is the ideal product... the ultimate merchandise. No sales talk necessary. The client will crawl through a sewer and beg to buy."
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William S. Burroughs
"Junk is the ideal product... the ultimate merchandise. No sales talk necessary. The client will crawl through a sewer and beg to buy."
"Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time."
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Thomas A. Edison
"Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time."
"I like cappuccino, actually. But even a bad cup of coffee is better than no coffee at all."
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David Lynch
"I like cappuccino, actually. But even a bad cup of coffee is better than no coffee at all."
"Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things."
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Robert Brault
"Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things."
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"Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important."
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Bill Gates
"Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important."
"A women needs to be a cook in the kitchen and a whore in the bedroom."
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Jerry Hall
"A women needs to be a cook in the kitchen and a whore in the bedroom."
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"Investing should be more like watching paint dry or watching grass grow. If you want excitement, take $800 and go to Las Vegas."
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Paul Samuelson
"Investing should be more like watching paint dry or watching grass grow. If you want excitement, take $800 and go to Las Vegas."
"We hope that, when the insects take over the world, they will remember with gratitude how we took them along on all our picnics."
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Bill Vaughan
"We hope that, when the insects take over the world, they will remember with gratitude how we took them along on all our picnics."
"Government is a trust, and the officers of the government are trustees. And both the trust and the trustees are created for the benefit of the people."
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Henry Clay
"Government is a trust, and the officers of the government are trustees. And both the trust and the trustees are created for the benefit of the people."
"I won't insult your intelligence by suggesting that you really believe what you just said."
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William F. Buckley, Jr.
"I won't insult your intelligence by suggesting that you really believe what you just said."
"The barbarians never take a city until someone holds the gates open to them. And it's your own multicultural authorities who will do it for you."
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Christopher Hitchens
"The barbarians never take a city until someone holds the gates open to them. And it's your own multicultural authorities who will do it for you."
"When you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it."
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Theodore Roosevelt
"When you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it."
"Time is money, especially when you are talking to a lawyer or buying a commercial."
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Frank Dane
"Time is money, especially when you are talking to a lawyer or buying a commercial."
"Sports is the toy department of human life."
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Howard Cosell
"Sports is the toy department of human life."
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"It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world."
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John Steinbeck
"It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world."
"When ambition ends, happiness begins."
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Thomas Merton
"When ambition ends, happiness begins."
"Labor Day is devoted to no man, living or dead, to no sect, race or nation."
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Samuel Gompers
"Labor Day is devoted to no man, living or dead, to no sect, race or nation."
"Success is the sum of small efforts - repeated day in and day out."
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Robert Collier
"Success is the sum of small efforts - repeated day in and day out."
"Avoid popularity if you would have peace."
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Abraham Lincoln
"Avoid popularity if you would have peace."
"Writing is like driving at night in the fog. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way."
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E. L. Doctorow
"Writing is like driving at night in the fog. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way."
"People that seem so glorious are all show; underneath they are like everyone else."
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
"People that seem so glorious are all show; underneath they are like everyone else."
"Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower."
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Steve Jobs
"Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower."
"Information is the resolution of uncertainty."
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Claude Shannon
"Information is the resolution of uncertainty."
"A manager is not a person who can do the work better than his men; he is a person who can get his men to do the work better than he can."
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Frederick W. Smith
"A manager is not a person who can do the work better than his men; he is a person who can get his men to do the work better than he can."
"Aviation is proof that given, the will, we have the capacity to achieve the impossible."
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Eddie Rickenbacker
"Aviation is proof that given, the will, we have the capacity to achieve the impossible."
"A woman drove me to drink and I didn't even have the decency to thank her."
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W. C. Fields
"A woman drove me to drink and I didn't even have the decency to thank her."
"Our capacity to retaliate must be, and is, massive in order to deter all forms of aggression."
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John Foster Dulles
"Our capacity to retaliate must be, and is, massive in order to deter all forms of aggression."
"Communism is a religion that is inspired, directed and motivated by the Devil himself who has declared war against Almighty God."
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Billy Graham
"Communism is a religion that is inspired, directed and motivated by the Devil himself who has declared war against Almighty God."
"She is the mother I never had, she is the sister everybody would want. She is the friend that everybody deserves. I don't know a better person."
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Oprah Winfrey
"She is the mother I never had, she is the sister everybody would want. She is the friend that everybody deserves. I don't know a better person."
"The science of today is the technology of tomorrow."
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Edward Teller
"The science of today is the technology of tomorrow."
"Every sunrise is an invitation for us to arise and brighten someone's day."
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Richelle E. Goodrich
"Every sunrise is an invitation for us to arise and brighten someone's day."
"A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him."
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David Brinkley
"A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him."
"What do I care about law? Ain't I got the power?"
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Cornelius Vanderbilt
"What do I care about law? Ain't I got the power?"
"Of all the ways to lose a person, death is the kindest."
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Of all the ways to lose a person, death is the kindest."
"Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does."
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William James
"Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does."
"We are under a Constitution, but the Constitution is what the judges say it is, and the judiciary is the safeguard of our property and our liberty and our property under the Constitution."
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Charles Evans Hughes
"We are under a Constitution, but the Constitution is what the judges say it is, and the judiciary is the safeguard of our property and our liberty and our property under the Constitution."
"I would like to see the day when somebody would be appointed surgeon somewhere who had no hands, for the operative part is the least part of the work."
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Harvey Cushing
"I would like to see the day when somebody would be appointed surgeon somewhere who had no hands, for the operative part is the least part of the work."
"The road to success runs uphill."
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Willie Davis
"The road to success runs uphill."
"I don't listen to what art critics say. I don't know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is."
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Jean-Michel Basquiat
"I don't listen to what art critics say. I don't know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is."
"I had some money, I made the best paintings ever. I was completely reclusive, worked a lot, took a lot of drugs. I was awful to people."
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Jean-Michel Basquiat
"I had some money, I made the best paintings ever. I was completely reclusive, worked a lot, took a lot of drugs. I was awful to people."
"Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive."
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Elbert Hubbard
"Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive."
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"Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got."
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Janis Joplin
"Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got."
"I'm a black American, I am proud of my race. I am proud of who I am. I have a lot of pride and dignity."
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Michael Jackson
"I'm a black American, I am proud of my race. I am proud of who I am. I have a lot of pride and dignity."
"Design is the method of putting form and content together. Design, just as art, has multiple definitions; there is no single definition. Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple, that's why it is so complicated."
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Paul Rand
"Design is the method of putting form and content together. Design, just as art, has multiple definitions; there is no single definition. Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple, that's why it is so complicated."
"Design is a plan for arranging elements in such a way as best to accomplish a particular purpose."
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Charles Eames
"Design is a plan for arranging elements in such a way as best to accomplish a particular purpose."
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