"In living literature no person is a competent judge but of works written in his own language . I have expressed my opinion concerning a number of English writers; it is very possible that I may be mistaken, that my admiration and my censure may be equally misplaced, and that my conclusions may appear impertinent and ridiculous on the other side of the Channel."

-- FranÃ§ois-RenÃ© de Chateaubriand

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“I feel that one of the best things a person can do for another is to create a job. So you do OK commercially, and then you try to make a difference of some sort.”

Source : "CRAIGSLIST / On the record: Craig Newmark". SFGATE Interview, www.sfgate.com. August 15, 2004.
“If you are persistent, you will succeed”
“Hope awakens courage. He who can implant courage in the human soul is the best physician.”
“No other people have a government more worthy of their respect and love or a land so magnificent in extent, so pleasant to look upon, and so full of generous suggestion to enterprise and labor.”

Source : Benjamin Harrison (1893). “Public Papers and Addresses of Benjamin Harrison: Twenty -third President of the United States. March 4, 1889, to March 4, 1893”
“The big lock-up is about drugs. Here's the real scam. The drug war is one of the games to get more convictions and prisoners.”
“But on one man's soul it hath broken, / A light that doth not depart; / And his look, or a word he hath spoken, / Wrought flame in another man's heart.”
“Close your eyes and visualize the person you really want to be, who fits your own concepts of self-respect. If you can see the person clearly in the mirror of you mind, you surely will become that person.”
“I am a proud member of the LGBT community and could never bear the idea that someone could say I was closeted.”

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