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"We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather.." -Barbara Ehrenreich-
"We look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms. The first is freedom of speech and expression. The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way. The third is freedom from want…. The fourth is freedom from fear.".-Franklin D. Roosevelt-
"It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either.".-Mark Twain-
"Language is legislation, speech is its code. We do not see the power which is in speech because we forget that all speech is a classification, and that all classifications are oppressive.".-Roland Barthes
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"Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it.".-Benjamin Franklin-
"Old people love to give good advice to console themselves for no longer being able to set a bad example.".-Francois de la Rochefoucauld-
"If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves.".-Lillian Hellman-
"Many receive advice, few profit by it.".-Publilius Syrus-
"Always make a total effort, even when the odds are against you.".-Arnold Palmer-
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"In my wide association in life, meeting with many and great men in various parts of the world, I have yet to find the man, however great or exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than he would ever do under a spirit of criticism.".-Charles M. Schwab-
"Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.".-Franklin D. Roosevelt-
"Leaders are made, they are not born. They are made by hard effort, which is the price which all of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile.".-Vince Lombardi-
"Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.".-Blaise Pascal-
"Man's greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done.".-Frederick Douglass-
"I don't confuse greatness with perfection. To be great anyhow is…the higher acheivement.".-Lois McMaster Bujold-
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"Do not despise the bottom rungs in the ascent to greatness.".-Publilius Syrus-
"Some believe all that parents, tutors, and kindred believe. They take their principles by inheritance, and defend them as they would their estates, because they are born heirs to them.".-Alan W. Watts-
"I think like any marriage, especially when you’ve had divorced parents like myself, you’d want to try even harder to make it work.".-Diana Princess of Wales-
"Brevity and conciseness are the parents of correction.".-Hosea Ballou-
"Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.".-Oscar Wilde-
"When I was kidnapped, my parents snapped into action. They rented out my room.".-Woody Allen-
"A talent somewhat above mediocrity, shrewd and not too sensitive, is more likely to rise in the world than genius.".-Charles Horton Cooley-
"The best friend is likely to acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is based on the talent for friendship.".-Friedrich Nietzsche-
"The secret of biography resides in finding the link between talent and achievement. A biography seems irrelevant if it doesn't discover the overlap between what the individual did and the life that made this possible. Without discovering that, you have sh".-Leon Edel-
"Imagination is not a talent of some people but is the health of everyone.".-Ralph Waldo Emerson-
"Never tire yourself more than necessary, even if you have to found a culture on the fatigue of your bones.".-Antonin Artaud-
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"The lowest form of popular culture - lack of information, misinformation, misinformation, and a contempt for the truth or the reality of most people's lives - has overrun real journalism. Today, ordinary Americans are being stuffed with garbage.".-Carl Bernstein-
"That is true culture which helps us to work for the social betterment of all.".-Henry Ward Beecher-
"The function of literature, through all its mutations, has been to make us aware of the particularity of selves, and the high authority of the self in its quarrel with its society and its culture. Literature is in that sense subversive.".-Lionel Trilling-
"To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.".-Alexander Pope-
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"How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.." -Benjamin Disraeli-
"Speech is the small change of silence.".-George Meredith-
"It takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.".-Mark Twain-
"Wine is a part of society because it provides a basis not only for a morality but also for an environment;it is an ornament in the slightest ceremonials of French daily life, from the snack to the feast, from the conversation at the local café to the speech at a formal dinner.".-Roland Barthes
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"A word to the wise isn't necessary, it is the stupid ones who need all the advice.".-Bill Cosby-
"The one thing people are the most liberal with, is their advice.".-Francois de la Rochefoucauld-
"They're fancy talkers about themselves, writers. If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves.".-Lillian Hellman-
"Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.".-Publilius Syrus-
"I've always made a total effort, even when the odds seemed entirely against me. I never quit trying;I never felt that I didn't have a chance to win.".-Arnold Palmer-
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"The smallest effort is not lost. Each wavelet on the ocean tost aids in the ebb-tide or the flow;each rain-drop makes some floweret blow;each struggle lessens human woe.".-Charles Mackay-
"To exercise power costs effort and demands courage. That is why so many fail to assert rights to which they are perfectly entitled - because a right is a kind of power but they are too lazy or too cowardly to exercise it. The virtues which cloak these faults are called patience and forbearance.".-Friedrich Nietzsche-
"The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.".-Vince Lombardi-
"The origins of disputes between philosophers is, that one class of them have undertaken to raise man by displaying his greatness, and the other to debase him by showing his miseries.".-Blaise Pascal-
"The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity.".-Friedrich Nietzsche-
"There are big men, men of intellect, intellectual men, men of talent and men of action;but the great man is difficult to find, and it needs - apart from discernment - a certain greatness to find him.".-Margot Asquith-
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"Nothing is more simple than greatness;indeed, to be simple is to be great.".-Ralph Waldo Emerson-
"Why did I write? What sin to me unknown dipped me in ink, my parents, or my own?".-Alexander Pope-
"If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either.".-Dick Cavett-
"The thing that impresses me the most about America is the way parents obey their children.".-King Edward VIII-
"Children begin by loving their parents;as they grow older they judge them;sometimes they forgive them.".-Oscar Wilde-
"I know quite certainly that I myself have no special talent;curiosity, obsession and dogged endurance, combined with self-criticism have brought me to my ideas.".-Albert Einstein-
"Genius makes its observations in short-hand;talent writes them out at length.".-Christian Nevell Bovee-
"For eighteen hundred years, though perchance I have no right to say it, the New Testament has been written;yet where is the legislator who has wisdom and practical talent enough to avail himself of the light which it sheds on the science of legislation?".-Henry David Thoreau-
"A best-seller is the golden touch of mediocre talent.".-Logan Pearsall Smith-
"Insist on yourself;never imitate. Your own gift you can present every moment with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation;but of the adopted talent of another you have only an extemporaneous half possession.".-Ralph Waldo Emerson-
"Does there, I wonder, exist a being who has read all, or approximately all, that the person of average culture is supposed to have read, and that not to have read is a social sin? If such a being does exist, surely he is an old, a very old man.".-Arnold Bennett-
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"Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.".-Christian Nevell Bovee-
"Whenever I hear the word culture, I reach for my revolver.".-Hermann Goering-
"It seems to me that, in every culture, I come across a chapter headed ''Wisdom.'' And then I know exactly what is going to follow: ''Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.''".-Ludwig Wittgenstein-
"Observe your enemies, for they first find out your faults.".-Antisthenes-
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