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Few people think more than two or three times a year. I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.
-- George Bernard Shaw

When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.
-- George Bernard Shaw

Retire? I'm going to stay in show business until I'm the only one left.
-- George Burns, at age 90

All animals are created equal, but some are more equal than others.
-- George Orwell

The NBA players are smart enough to know that you get the virus from unprotected sex, and we're not going to have unprotected sex on the basketball court.
-- Golden State Warriors center Rony Seikaly, on the return to pro backetball of Los Angeles Lakers sup

In the long run men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, though they may fail immediately, they had better aim at something high.
-- Henry David Thoreau

I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.
-- Henry David Thoreau

Henceforth the adequacy of any military establishment will be tested by its ability to preserve the peace.
-- Henry Kissinger

Sex is one of the nine reasons for reincarnation... the other eight are unimportant.
-- Henry Miller

Into each life some rain must fall, Some days must be dark and dreary.
-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Everything flows.
-- Heraclitus

Nothing endures but change.
-- Heraclitus

We are more important than the Catholic religion.
-- International Olympic Committee president Juan Antonio Samaranch, on the significance of the Games

Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what's right.
-- Isaac Asimov

If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton

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