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Week 1
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... Have all our revolutions, all our changes of creed, all the bloodshed and the burning, made men happier? ...
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— Andrew Lang
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... No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world giving and receiving offence. ...
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— Thomas Carlyle
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Week 2
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... Have all our revolutions, all our changes of creed, all the bloodshed and the burning, made men happier? ...
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— Andrew Lang
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... No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world giving and receiving offence. ...
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— Thomas Carlyle
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Week 3
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... A man with God is always in the majority. ...
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— John Knox
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... Never ascribe to an opponent motives meaner than your own. ...
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— J. M. Barrie
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Week 4
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... A man with God is always in the majority. ...
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— John Knox
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... Never ascribe to an opponent motives meaner than your own. ...
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— J. M. Barrie
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Week 5
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... There is only one word for aid that is without strings, and that word is blackmail. ...
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— Colm Brogan
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... It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth. ...
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— A. J. Balfour
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Week 6
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... There is only one word for aid that is without strings, and that word is blackmail. ...
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— Colm Brogan
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... It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth. ...
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— A. J. Balfour
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Week 7
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... In my end is my beginning ...
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— Mary, Queen of Scots
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... The task of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there. ...
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— John Buchan
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Week 8
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... In my end is my beginning ...
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— Mary, Queen of Scots
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... The task of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there. ...
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— John Buchan
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Week 9
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... Custom, then, is the great guide of human life. ...
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— David Hume
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... Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things. ...
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— Robert Louis Stevenson
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Week 10
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... Custom, then, is the great guide of human life. ...
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— David Hume
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... Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things. ...
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— Robert Louis Stevenson
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Week 11
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... My wife says I'm Scotch by absorption. ...
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— Magnus Magnusson
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... A positive engagement to marry a certain person at a certain time, at all haps and hazards, I have always considered the most ridiculous thing on earth. ...
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— Jane Welsh Carlyle
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Week 12
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... My wife says I'm Scotch by absorption. ...
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— Magnus Magnusson
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... A positive engagement to marry a certain person at a certain time, at all haps and hazards, I have always considered the most ridiculous thing on earth. ...
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— Jane Welsh Carlyle
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Week 13
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... Parents learn a lot about coping with life from their children. ...
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— Muriel Spark
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... Where men of fine feeling are concerned there is seldom misunderstanding. ...
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— John Paul Jones
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Week 14
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... Parents learn a lot about coping with life from their children. ...
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— Muriel Spark
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... Where men of fine feeling are concerned there is seldom misunderstanding. ...
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— John Paul Jones
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Week 15
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... Diffused knowledge immortalizes itself. ...
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— James Mackintosh
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... The cloven-foot of self-interest was now and then to be seen aneath the robe of public principle. ...
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— John Galt
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Week 16
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... Diffused knowledge immortalizes itself. ...
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— James Mackintosh
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... The cloven-foot of self-interest was now and then to be seen aneath the robe of public principle. ...
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— John Galt
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Week 17
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... I don't know where I'll be in five years and I like the way that feels. ...
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— Robina Qureshi
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... I have always found that the man whose second thoughts are good is worth watching. ...
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— J. M. Barrie
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Week 18
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... I don't know where I'll be in five years and I like the way that feels. ...
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— Robina Qureshi
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... I have always found that the man whose second thoughts are good is worth watching. ...
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— J. M. Barrie
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Week 19
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... I fancy mankind may come, in time, to write all aphoristically. ...
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— James Boswell
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... It is a great mortification to the vanity of man, that his utmost art and industry can never equal the meanest of nature's productions, either for beauty or value. ...
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— David Hume
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Week 20
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... I fancy mankind may come, in time, to write all aphoristically. ...
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— James Boswell
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... It is a great mortification to the vanity of man, that his utmost art and industry can never equal the meanest of nature's productions, either for beauty or value. ...
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— David Hume
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Week 21
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... All I've got against golf is that it takes you so far from the clubhouse. ...
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— Eric Linklater
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... I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered. ...
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— Robert Louis Stevenson
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Week 22
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... All I've got against golf is that it takes you so far from the clubhouse. ...
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— Eric Linklater
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... I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered. ...
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— Robert Louis Stevenson
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Week 23
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... He's very clever, but sometimes his brains go to his head. ...
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— Margot Asquith speaking of F. E. Smith
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... When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe. ...
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— John Muir
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Week 24
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... He's very clever, but sometimes his brains go to his head. ...
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— Margot Asquith speaking of F. E. Smith
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... When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe. ...
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— John Muir
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Week 25
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... Art is for all — and the greatest art proves it. ...
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— William Soutar
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... No laws, however stringent, can make the idle industrious, the thriftless provident, or the drunken sober. ...
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— Samuel Smiles
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Week 26
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... Art is for all — and the greatest art proves it. ...
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— William Soutar
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... No laws, however stringent, can make the idle industrious, the thriftless provident, or the drunken sober. ...
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— Samuel Smiles
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Week 27
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... Is there anything worn under the kilt? No, it's all in perfect working order. ...
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— Spike Milligan
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... The true definition of a snob is one who craves for what separates men rather than for what unites them. ...
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— John Buchan
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Week 28
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... Is there anything worn under the kilt? No, it's all in perfect working order. ...
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— Spike Milligan
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... The true definition of a snob is one who craves for what separates men rather than for what unites them. ...
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— John Buchan
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Week 29
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... Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves. ...
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— J. M. Barrie
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... Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts. ...
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— Thomas Carlyle
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Week 30
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... Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves. ...
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— J. M. Barrie
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... Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts. ...
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— Thomas Carlyle
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Week 31
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... Insanity - a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world. ...
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— Ronald David Laing
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... To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life. ...
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— Robert Louis Stevenson
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Week 32
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... Insanity - a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world. ...
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— Ronald David Laing
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... To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life. ...
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— Robert Louis Stevenson
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Week 33
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... An opinion, right or wrong can never constitute a moral offense, nor be in itself a moral obligation. ...
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— Frances Wright
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... Most people are on the world, not in it—have no conscious sympathy or relationship to anything about them—undiffused, separate, and rigidly alone like marbles of polished stone, touching but separate. ...
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— John Muir
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Week 34
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... An opinion, right or wrong can never constitute a moral offense, nor be in itself a moral obligation. ...
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— Frances Wright
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... Most people are on the world, not in it—have no conscious sympathy or relationship to anything about them—undiffused, separate, and rigidly alone like marbles of polished stone, touching but separate. ...
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— John Muir
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Week 35
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... A wise man, therefore, proportions his belief to the evidence. ...
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— David Hume
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... The surest way to get a thing in this life is to be prepared for doing without it, to the exclusion even of hope. ...
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— Jane Welsh Carlyle
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Week 36
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... A wise man, therefore, proportions his belief to the evidence. ...
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— David Hume
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... The surest way to get a thing in this life is to be prepared for doing without it, to the exclusion even of hope. ...
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— Jane Welsh Carlyle
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Week 37
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... The worst of being a doctor is that one's mistakes matter so much. ...
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— Elsie Inglis
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... The ideal board of directors should be made up of three men - two dead and the other dying. ...
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— Tommy Docherty
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Week 38
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... The worst of being a doctor is that one's mistakes matter so much. ...
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— Elsie Inglis
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... The ideal board of directors should be made up of three men - two dead and the other dying. ...
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— Tommy Docherty
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Week 39
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... I have forgot a great deal more than most other men know. ...
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— Lord Monboddo
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... By means of patience, common sense and time, impossibility becomes possibility. ...
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— Sir Colin Campbell
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Week 40
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... I have forgot a great deal more than most other men know. ...
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— Lord Monboddo
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... By means of patience, common sense and time, impossibility becomes possibility. ...
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— Sir Colin Campbell
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Week 41
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... Happiness dies, love fails, but art is forever. ...
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— Mrs Margaret Oliphant
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... I tell you truly, liberty is the best of things; never live under the halter of slavery. ...
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— William Wallace
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Week 42
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... Happiness dies, love fails, but art is forever. ...
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— Mrs Margaret Oliphant
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... I tell you truly, liberty is the best of things; never live under the halter of slavery. ...
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— William Wallace
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Week 43
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... A scot is a man who keeps the Sabbath and everything else he can lay his hands on. ...
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— Chic Murray
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... Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity. ...
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— Thomas Carlyle
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Week 44
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... A scot is a man who keeps the Sabbath and everything else he can lay his hands on. ...
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— Chic Murray
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... Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity. ...
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— Thomas Carlyle
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Week 45
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... I think Calvinism has done more damage to Scotland than drugs ever did. ...
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— Ronald David Laing
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... A sense of proportion is anathema to the Glasgow drinker. When he goes at the bevvy it is a fight to the death. ...
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— Hugh McIlvanney
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Week 46
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... I think Calvinism has done more damage to Scotland than drugs ever did. ...
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— Ronald David Laing
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... A sense of proportion is anathema to the Glasgow drinker. When he goes at the bevvy it is a fight to the death. ...
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— Hugh McIlvanney
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Week 47
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... Doctors, like minicab drivers, are the other idiots to whom we trust our lives. ...
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— James Kennaway
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... When shall I see Scotland again? Never shall I forget the happy days I passed there amidst odious smells, barbarous sounds, bad suppers, excellent hearts and the most enlightened and cultivated understandings. ...
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— Sydney Smith
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Week 48
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... Doctors, like minicab drivers, are the other idiots to whom we trust our lives. ...
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— James Kennaway
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... When shall I see Scotland again? Never shall I forget the happy days I passed there amidst odious smells, barbarous sounds, bad suppers, excellent hearts and the most enlightened and cultivated understandings. ...
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— Sydney Smith
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Week 49
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... Earnest youth lays the best foundations for a frivolous old age. ...
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— Catherine Carswell
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... When one has been threatened with a great injustice, one accepts a smaller as a favour. ...
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— Jane Welsh Carlyle
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Week 50
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... Earnest youth lays the best foundations for a frivolous old age. ...
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— Catherine Carswell
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... When one has been threatened with a great injustice, one accepts a smaller as a favour. ...
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— Jane Welsh Carlyle
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Week 51
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... A witty statesman said, you might prove anything by figures. ...
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— Thomas Carlyle
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... Generally speaking the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous. ...
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— David Hume
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Week 52
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... A witty statesman said, you might prove anything by figures. ...
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— Thomas Carlyle
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... Generally speaking the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous. ...
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— David Hume
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