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Aeschylus

"God loves to help him who strives to help himself."

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Thomas d'Urfey

“Of all the world's enjoyments That ever valued were, There's none of our employments With fishing can compare.”

- Thomas d'Urfey

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William Paley

“No man's spirits were ever hurt by doing his duty; on the contrary, one good action, one temptation resisted and overcome, one sacrifice of desire or interest, purely for conscience' sake, will prove a cordial for weak and low spirits, far beyond what either indulgence or diversion or company can do for them.”

- William Paley

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Joan Jett

“Beyond just writing about falling in love and out of love and wanting to do certain things and going out and partying and all the things that I grew up writing about, I want to write about deeper things.”

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Roland Gift

“While growing up in Birmingham around a lot of West Indian people, reggae and calypso were big influences early on but Otis Redding was the one person who made me wanna sing myself.”

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Ida Tarbell

“There is no man more dangerous, in a position of power, than he who refuses to accept as a working truth the idea that all a man does should make for rightness and soundness, that even the fixing of a tariff rate must be moral.”

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Loretta Young

“In 1949 there was a new thing called Television, to which my agency and advisers opposed as a performance medium.”

- Loretta Young

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Ginger Rogers

“I believe in dressing for the occasion. There's a time for sweater, sneakers and Levis and a time for the full-dress jazz.”

- Ginger Rogers

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Stellan Skarsgard

“Even the most despicable person is still a human being.”

- Stellan Skarsgard

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Kate Bosworth

“The fashion world feels more normal to me when I'm with them.”

- Kate Bosworth

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Henry W. Kendall

“Many people and governments share the mistaken belief that science, with new, ingenious devices and techniques, can rescue us from the troubles we face without our having to mend our ways and change our patterns of activity. This is not so.”

- Henry W. Kendall

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Jack Reynor

“With 'Transformers,' I'm going to get to drive fast cars and have a lot of fun. That's what appeals to me about it. I want to have as much fun as possible.”

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John W. Foster

“The pride of dying rich raises the loudest laugh in hell.”

- John W. Foster

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T.I.

“My father passed away in 2002, but yes, we were pretty close. I loved him a lot.”

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Chris O'Dowd

“Reviewers are the worst laughers in the world.”

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Jon Gries

“I don't care what your religion is, as long as it doesn't chastise anybody that's not part of it.”

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Ralph Richardson

“The art of acting consists in keeping people from coughing.”

- Ralph Richardson

Source/Notes: As quoted in: The Reader's Digest, Volume 54 (1949), p. 18

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Federico Mayor

“Critical remarks are only made by people who love you.”

- Federico Mayor

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