"A gentleman, is a rarer thing than some of us think for. Which of us can point out many such in his circle--men whose aims are generous, whose truth is constant and elevated; who can look the world honestly in the face, with an equal manly sympathy for the great and the small? We all know a hundred whose coats are well made, and a score who have excellent manners; but of gentlemen how many? Let us take a little scrap of paper, and each make out his list."

-- William Makepeace Thackeray

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“I believe that the will of the people is resolved by a strong leadership. Even in a democratic society, events depend on a strong leadership with a strong power of persuasion, and not on the opinion of the masses.”
“Dying away from home, away from the soil of your birth - and to do so unseen and unmourned - is a profound horror.”
“I'm not the type of person to act one way in front of the camera and another when it's off. What you see is what you get.”
“I don't just want to focus on soccer, soccer, soccer. You're going to look back 20 years from now and of course you're going to remember the games. But I'm going to remember seeing my family in the stands.”
“They hear you own up, and they learn to own up.”

Source : "The Collected Wisdom of Bruce Willis, 1:32-3:45 P.M., Thursday" by Tom Chiarella, www.esquire.com. May 21, 2012.
“A sense of duty imprisons you.”

Source : Jenny Holzer (1983). “Truisms and essays”, Distributed Art Pub Inc
“Never to suffer would never to have been blessed.”
“Countries where women have access to professional life are also those where the birth rate is higher.”

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