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Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.

Socrates

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One writes to make a home for oneself, on paper, in time and in others' minds.

Alfred Kazin

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To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete.

Epictetus

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The human contribution is the essential ingredient. It is only in the giving of oneself to others that we truly live.

Ethel Percy Andrus

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I think to have the skill set and the ability to physically help others in matters of life and death must be incredibly empowering.

Karlie Kloss

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Money can add very much to one's ability to lead a constructive life, not only pleasant for oneself, but, hopefully, beneficial to others. My grandfather, along with Carnegie, was a pioneer in philanthropy, which my father then practiced on a very large scale. The Christian ethic played an essential part in my upbringing.

David Rockefeller

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Philadelphia's a good science-fiction town. There are many professional writers here, like Michael Swanwick, Tom Purdom, Gregory Frost, Victoria McManus and others. There are professional artists such as Bob Walters and Tess Kissinger and Susan McAninley.

Gardner Dozois

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The sharp employ the sharp.

Douglas William Jerrold

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It is curious how instinctively one protects the image of oneself from idolatry or any other handling that could make it ridiculous, or too unlike the original to be believed any longer.

Virginia Woolf

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One-third of all professional baseball players come from Latin America, and Sosa is following role models such as the late Roberto Clemente, a Puerto Rican, from whom he adopted the No. 21. Now he is a model for others.

Bill Dedman

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To abandon oneself to principles is really to die - and to die for an impossible love which is the contrary of love.

Albert Camus

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Today, few terrorist organizations still employ the 'al-Qaeda model' in which individuals travel to terrorist training camps overseas and then are deployed to the West to inflict atrocities.

Tom Cotton

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I like to speak on matters which matter to human beings, and almost everything matters to human beings.

Maya Angelou

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I like to employ a form of repetition, in which the same elements recur but in different and unexpected ways. rather than being discarded as soon as they are understood or passed over.

Graham Nelson

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It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.

Voltaire

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I knew I was never going to play professional sport, but I loved playing and I went to all the games I could afford to.

Spike Lee

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I wanted to communicate what I had seen, so that others could see it.

Laurie Lee

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If you go from $7 to $15 in a very short period of time, potentially that could have a negative effect on some economies because that is a very big jump. And you're saying to businesses that employ a large number of minimum wage workers, your payroll is basically going to double. That could have a negative impact. It would have to be studied.

Andrew Cuomo

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To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.

Bruce Lee

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Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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