Category: General
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Quotes about Marriage
A successful marriage isn’t the union of two perfect people. It’s that of two imperfect people who have learned the value of forgiveness and grace. -Darlene Schacht The goal in marriage is not to think alike,but to think together. – Robert C Dodds Married couples who love each other tell each other a thousand things…
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Sigmund Freud Quotes
Sigmund Freud was an Austrian neurologist who became known as the founding father of psychoanalysis. Born: May 6, 1856, Príbor, Czech Republic Died: September 23, 1939, London, United Kingdom Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise. I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the…
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George Eliot Quotes
Mary Anne Evans, known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist, journalist, and translator and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. She is the author of seven novels, including Adam Bede (1859), The Mill on the Floss (1860), Silas Marner (1861), Middlemarch (1871–72), and Daniel Deronda (1876), most of…
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Lord Byron Quotes
George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron, later George Gordon Noel, 6th Baron Byron, FRS, commonly known simply as Lord Byron, was an English poet and a leading figure in the Romantic movement. Among Byron’s best-known works are the lengthy narrative poems Don Juan and Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage and the short lyric “She Walks in Beauty.”…
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Elbert Hubbard Quotes
Elbert Green Hubbard was an American writer, publisher, artist, and philosopher. Hubbard is mostly known as the founder of the Roycroft artisan community in East Aurora, New York, an influential exponent of the Arts and Crafts Movement. Born: June 19, 1856, Bloomington, Illinois, United States Died: May 7, 1915, Republic of Ireland A…
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Stephen Hawking Quotes
Stephen Hawking is an English theoretical physicist and cosmologist. In 1963, Hawking contracted motor neurone disease and was given two years to live. Yet he went on to Cambridge to become a brilliant researcher and Professorial Fellow at Gonville and Caius College. From 1979 to 2009 he held the post of Lucasian Professor at…
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Sun Tzu Quotes
Sun Tzu or Sunzi was a Chinese military general, strategist, and philosopher during the Zhou dynasty’s Spring and Autumn Period.The name he is best known by is an honorific meaning “Master Sun”: Sun Tzu was born as Sun Wu and known outside his family by the style name Changqing. He is traditionally credited as the…
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Heraclitus Quotes
Heraclitus of Ephesus was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher, a native of the Greek city Ephesus, Ionia, on the coast of Asia Minor. Heraclitus propounded a distinctive theory which he expressed in oracular language. He is best known for his doctrines that things are constantly changing. Big results require big ambitions. Always having what we…
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Walt Whitman Quotes
Walter “Walt” Whitman was an American poet, essayist and journalist. A humanist, he was a part of the transition between transcendentalism and realism, incorporating both views in his works. Born: May 31, 1819, West Hills, New York, United States Died: March 26, 1892, Camden, New Jersey, United States Full name: Walter Whitman Nationality: American …
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Tom Clancy Quotes
Thomas Leo “Tom” Clancy, Jr. (April 12, 1947 – October 1, 2013) was an American author best known for his technically detailed espionage and military science storylines that are set during and in the aftermath of the Cold War, along with video games which bear his name for licensing and promotional purposes. His name was…
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Colin Powell Quotes
Colin Luther Powell (Born April 5, 1937) is an American statesman and a retired four-star general in the United States Army. He was the 65th United States Secretary of State, the first African American to serve in that position. Powell was a professional soldier for 35 years, holding a variety of command and staff positions…
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Henry Ford Quotes
Henry Ford (July 30, 1863 – April 7, 1947) was an American industrialist, the founder of the Ford Motor Company, and sponsor of the development of the assembly line technique of mass production. Henry Ford developed and manufactured the first automobile that many middle class Americans could afford to buy. His introduction of the Model…