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Georges Clemenceau: Interesting primarily

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P D James: Every bird his worm

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Alija Izetbegovic: No matter how ugly the truth

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Jackie DeShannon: New tomorrow

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Annie Parisse: Right button

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Enid Blyton: Don’t leave someone for something

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Martin Heidegger: Man and language

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Miguel de Cervantes: Self-deceit

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Jalal ud-Din Tumi: Buy bewilderment

10

J B Priestley: Mental pregnancy

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Ayn Rand: Inoperative

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Elie Wiesel: Illegal

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Tim O’Brien: Fiction

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Karl Popper: Intolerance

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Simon Sinek: Intelligence versus creativity

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Letitia Elizabeth Landon: Very much like glasses

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Simon Sinek: Stress versus passion

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Sting: Jealous

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Simon Sinek: Only two ways

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Peter Sellers: Classic example

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Elayne Boosler: Never been married

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Garrett Camp: Wiki

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Dwight D Eisenhower: Followers

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Frank Herbert: Fear

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Simon Sinek: Connect

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Rita Dove: Sun-drenched celebrities

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Ivo Andric: Bridges

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Calvin Coolidge: Persistence

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Fridtjof Nansen: Forward

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Robert M Pirsig: Dogmas

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Robert John Halligan: Engineering system

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Josh Hutcherson: Love as motivator

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Abraham Lincoln: With malice toward none

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Richard Feynman: Be a free thinker

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Kin Hubbard: Flattery

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Dwight D Eisenhower: Don’t join book burners

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Charles Reznikoff: Fingers of thoughts

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Tommy Lee Jones: Imagine what you’ll know tomorrow

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Lenny Bruce: Hiroshima was dirty

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Alanis Obomsawin: You can’t eat money

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Virgil: Able

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Russell Lincoln Ackoff: Common sense

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Leonardo da Vinci: Practice and sound theory

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Thomas Henry Huxley: Corroborative evidence

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Spanish proverb: An ounce of mother

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Martin Gardner: History of boneheads

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Charles Darwin: Ignorance

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Timothy Leary: Think for yourself

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Ivan Bunin: Words and deeds

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Jeanette Winterson: Book collecting

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Gabriel Garcia Marquez: Memories

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Samuel Butler: Credulous mind

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Bruce Feiler: Happy families

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Noel Coward: Motivation

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John Buchan: Debt to the past

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John Cleese: Creative workers

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Epicetus: Only the educated can be free

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Jonas Salk: Intuition

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Heinrich Heine: But is that an answer?

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Barbara Ehrenreich: Just like men

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Lady Marguerite Blessington: More lofty

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Jonas Salk: Patent the sun

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Bill Mauldin: Status quo

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Dan Rather: Sharp stick called truth

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Monty Hall: Overnight success

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Sarah Orne Jewett: Harbor

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Jane Addams: Precarious and uncertain

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Carl Sagan: Laughed at

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Sean Connery: Privilege

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Simon Sinek: No need for each other?

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Conor Cruise O’Brien: Christian unity

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David Foster Wallace: Voting

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Simon Sinek: Disappoint with truth

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George Matthew Adams: No such thing

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Goethe: Goes backward

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Edith Sitwell: Patient with stupidity

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Anthony de Mello: Properly wicked

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Zig Ziglar: Lack of direction

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Joe Biden: The answer is knowledge

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Courtney Gains: Acting and psychology

81

Amy Yasbeck: Off camera

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Jacqueline Bisset: Three lives

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James Jones: Modern warfare

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Eric Auerbach: Full individuality

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Carl Sagan: Very small stage, vast cosmic arena

86

Marc Evan Jackson: Improvising

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Agatha Christie: Curious and beautiful

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Simon Sinek: Change the world

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Richard Burton: Best rubbish

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Simon Sinek: Help others

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Edgar Guest: See a sermon

92

Ruth Bader Ginsburg: Tune out

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Gabriel Legouve: Friend given by nature

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Simon Sinek: Excessive drive for order

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Steve Huffman: Texting

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John Carmack: Pick features that don’t fight each other

97

Ruth Bader Ginsburg: Lady

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Edward Deming: Bring data

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Auguste Rodin: Patience

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Simon Sinek: New ideas