“I heard the Beatles and the Stones, and Mom bought me an electric guitar. I played lead for four years and then switched to bass. One day someone suggested that I should sing, so I sheepishly stepped up to the microphone and the rest is rock history.”
— Glenn Hughes
Author: Glenn Hughes
Category: mom
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“Every job leaves its residue, a bit of extra knowledge, a new skill-set.”
— Joel Edgerton
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Category: knowledge
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“Energy has become a national security issue and as technology continues to improve, there will be more debates like the one on Keystone.”
— Ed Royce
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Category: technology
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“Denial exists because human infants, though equipped with trust-o-meters, are built to trust, blindly and absolutely, any older person who wanders past.”
— Martha Beck
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Category: trust
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“So the news that divorced fathers are to be denied a legal right to a relationship with their children, in the long overdue review of family law published this week, fills me with horror and despair.”
— Louis de Bernieres
Author: Louis de Bernieres
Category: legal
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“A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible.”
— Woodrow Wilson
Author: Woodrow Wilson
Category: men
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“Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.”
— Booker T. Washington
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Category: work
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“It is only when men begin to worship that they begin to grow.”
— Calvin Coolidge
Author: Calvin Coolidge
Category: religion
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“He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it is, the characteristics in human nature which we love best grow in a soil with a strong mixture of troubles.”
— Harry Emerson Fosdick
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Category: nature
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“Mass communication, radio, and especially television, have attempted, not without success, to annihilate every possibility of solitude and reflection.”
— Eugenio Montale
Author: Eugenio Montale
Category: success
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“A monarchy conducted with infinite wisdom and infinite benevolence is the most perfect of all possible governments.”
— Ezra Stiles
Author: Ezra Stiles
Category: wisdom
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