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Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.
Effort
Theodore Roosevelt

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Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.
Action
Carl Rowan

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A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
Husbands
Helen Rowland

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The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.
Truth
Utterly Russell

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If pain could have cured us we should long ago have been saved.
Pain
George Santayana

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The spirit's foe in man has not been simplicity, but sophistication.
Spirit and Spirituality
George Santayana

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Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
Life and Living
Jean-Paul Sartre

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Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
Freedom
Jean-Paul Sartre

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If you ask a Negro where he's been, he'll tell you where he's going.
Suspicion
Black American Saying

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Martyrdom has always been a proof of the intensity, never of the correctness of a belief.
Martyrdom
Arthur Schnitzler

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If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.
Fear
Robert H. Schuller

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All great ideas are controversial, or have been at one time.
Controversy
Gilbert Seldes

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Be great in act, as you have been in thought.
Action
William Shakespeare

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Company, villainous company, hath been the spoil of me.
Company
William Shakespeare

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For he was likely, had he been put on, to have proved most royally.
Potential
William Shakespeare

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There have been many great men that have flattered the people who never loved them.
Politicians and Politics
William Shakespeare

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The most brutal, ugly, desperate, vicious form of expression it has been my misfortune to hear.
Rock and Roll
Frank Sinatra

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Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
Education
B(urrhus) F(rederic) Skinner

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When God created two sexes, he may have been overdoing it.
Men and Women
Charles M. Smith

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The Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women's emancipation.
Christians and Christianity
Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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Russia has abolished God, but so far God has been tolerant.
Nations
John Swayze

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I often regret that I have spoken; never that I have been silent.
Silence
Publilius Syrus

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No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.
Leaders and Leadership
Publius Cornelius Tacitus

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No civilized society can thrive upon victims, whose humanity has been permanently mutilated.
Society
Rabindranath Tagore

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Speech has been given to man to disguise his thoughts.
Speech
Charles Maurice De Talleyrand

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun