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William Tecumseh Sherman (20)

My aim then was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us.

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Pearl S. Buck (18)

Life without idealism is empty indeed. We just hope or starve to death.

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Immanuel Kant (13)

But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.

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Herman Melville (13)

Old age is always wakeful as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.

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Anthony Trollope (9)

A fellow oughtn't to let his family property go to pieces.

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Erich Fromm (16)

Man always dies before he is fully born.

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Julius Caesar (12)

I love the name of honor, more than I fear death.

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Og Mandino (10)

Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.

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T. S. Eliot (23)

I had seen birth and death but had thought they were different.

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John Steinbeck (9)

Unless a reviewer has the courage to give you unqualified praise, I say ignore the bastard.

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Loretta Young (14)

I can't imagine dating a boy, meeting him only outside the home. What's a home and family for if it's not the center of one's life?

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Rudyard Kipling (12)

All the people like us are we, and everyone else is They.

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Edward Gibbon (14)

The courage of a soldier is found to be the cheapest and most common quality of human nature.

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Charles Baudelaire (25)

Common sense tells us that the things of the earth exist only a little, and that true reality is only in dreams.

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Andre Gide (22)

Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.

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H. G. Wells (19)

History is a race between education and catastrophe.

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Quintilian (12)

Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.

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John Maynard Keynes (10)

Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.

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Harry S. Truman (26)

My father was not a failure. After all, he was the father of a president of the United States.

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Casey Stengel (12)

You gotta lose 'em some of the time. When you do, lose 'em right.

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