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Jean-Paul Sartre Philosopher, Writer
May

"I wrote in Les Mots that "I have often thought against myself." That sentence has not been understood either. Critics have seen in it a confession of masochism. But that is how one should think: revolting against everything "inculcated'' that one may have within oneself."

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Jean-Paul Sartre Philosopher, Writer
May

"With a little luck that epoch may arrive. I am on the side of those who think that things will go better when the world has changed."

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May

"I’ve watched you barely escape death several times, and each instance killed me a little inside. They may be dormant now, but we have enemies both cunning and cruel. Knowing you possess the power to defeat most of them doesn’t threaten me, luv. It relieves me to my very core."

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Jim Rohn Author, Motivational Speaker
May

"Good people are not trained, they are found. If you are training too much, you may not have the right people."

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Jim Rohn Author, Motivational Speaker
May

"You may not be able to do all you find out, but make sure you find out all you can do."

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Jo Brand Comedian, Writer
May

"What they did was to make a pilot and it may well go to series at the next festival but I don't have any news on that. It's already been on Paramount actually, but as it's on Paramount it'll probably be on several more times... hopefully."

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poet, Playwright, Novelist
May

"Let's plunge ourselves into the roar of time, the whirl of accident; may pain and pleasure, success and failure, shift as they will -- it's only action that can make a man."

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poet, Playwright, Novelist
May

"Wherever a man may happen to turn, whatever a man may undertake, he will always end up by returning to that path which nature has marked out for him."

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poet, Playwright, Novelist
May

"Everything in the world may be endured, except only a succession of prosperous days. [Ger., Alles in der Welt lasst sich ertragen, Nur nicht eine Reihe von schonen Tagen.]"

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poet, Playwright, Novelist
May

"The angles even Draw strength from gazing on its glance, Though none its meaning fathom may; The world's unwither'd countenance Is bright as at creation's day."

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