Insightful Quotations for Greater Psychological Health
Insightful quotation, listed by the author, is a resource for you to take in many famous people's condensed wisdom throughout history. Along with the quotes themselves, I provide some background on the author and some brief commentary. The quotes provide meaningful insight to inspire you along your path towards greater psychological health.
Alan Ball Quotes
Alan Ball Quotes The screenwriter Alan Ball won an Academy Award in 1999 for the movie American Beauty. ...
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Alan Cohen Quotes
Alan Cohen Quotes Alan Cohen is a contributing writer for the Chicken Soup for the Soul series, popular ...
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Albert Camus Quotes
Albert Camus Quotes The Algerian born French writer and philosopher, Albert Camus, was the second youngest recipient of ...
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Albert Einstein Quotes
Albert Einstein Quotes Albert Einstein won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1921. A man whose name is ...
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Albert Ellis Quotes
Albert Ellis Quotes Albert Ellis was considered to be the ‘grandfather’ of cognitive-behavioral therapy. His realistic strategy was ...
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Albert Schweitzer Quotes
Albert Schweitzer Quotes Image: Photo of Albert Schweitzer, theologian, organist, writer, humanitarian, philosopher, and physician “Constant kindness can ...
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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Quotes
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Quotes The Russian author and historian, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn has written a number of major novels based ...
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Andre Gide Quotes
Andre Gide Quotes Andre Gide was a French author, humanist, and moralist who received the Nobel Prize for Literature ...
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Andy Rooney Quotes
Andy Rooney Quotes Andy Rooney, humorist and fairly cantankerous commentator for the CBS news program ’60 Minutes’ speaks ...
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Anna Freud Quotes
Anna Freud Quotes Anna Freud, known for being a mischievous child, carried on her father’s work in analysis ...
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Arthur VanGundy Quotes
Arthur VanGundy Quotes Arthur VanGundy is an entrepreneur in the arena of group creativity. Clients in his brainstorming ...
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Audrey Hepburn Quotes
Audrey Hepburn Quotes An Academy Award and Tony Award winning film and stage actress, Audrey Hepburn was also a humanitarian. ...
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Barbara Bush Quotes
Barbara Bush Quotes Barbara Bush is the wife of the 41st President of the United States, George H.W. ...
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Barbara Walters Quotes
Barbara Walters Quotes Barbara Walters is a TV broadcaster who is best known for interviewing world leaders and celebrities, ...
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Benjamin Disraeli Quotes
Benjamin Disraeli Quotes Of all the “secrets of success” that people cite, variations of this one seem to ...
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Bette Davis Quotes
Bette Davis Quotes Bette Davis, one of Hollywood’s most prolific actresses, was a two time Academy Award winner. ...
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Bob Hope Quotes
Bob Hope Quotes Image: Photo of Bob Hope, stand-up comedian, actor, and singer In a July 11, 1979 ...
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Buckminster Fuller Quotes
Buckminster Fuller Quotes As a young child, this American visionary and inventor of the geodesic dome often made ...
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C. Northcote Parkinson Quotes
C. Northcote Parkinson Quotes C. Northcote Parkinson was a naval historian and a scholar in the field of ...
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Calvin Coolidge Quotes
Calvin Coolidge Quotes Calvin Coolidge was the 30th President of the United States. He is said to have embodied ...
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Carl Jung Quotes
Carl Jung Quotes Carl Jung, famed Swiss psychiatrist, was innovative in his work in a number of arenas, ...
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Caryl Rivers Quotes
Caryl Rivers Quotes From Caryl Rivers, author of numerous works on gender, culture and family issues. Image: Carly ...
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Charles Revson Quotes
Charles Revson Quotes The founder of Revlon makeup reveals several marketing secrets. Image: Photo of Charles Revson, businessman ...
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Christopher Reeve Quotes
Christopher Reeve Quotes Christopher Reeve was an American actor, director and writer. He was best known for playing ...
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Confucius Quotes
Confucius Quotes The teachings of the philosopher and sage Confucius were so pragmatic, wise, advanced and successful in ...
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Cynthia Heimel Quotes
Cynthia Heimel Quotes Image: Photo of Cynthia Heimel, feminist humorist writer Since it’s hard to know what will ...
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Dale Carnegie Quotes
Dale Carnegie Quotes Image: Photo of Dale Carnegie, writer and lecturer A business consultant once told me, “I ...
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Dali Lama Quotes- the 14th, Lhamo Thondup
When not traveling, the Dali Lama, July 6, 1935, resides in his home in exile in Northern India. ...
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David Brinkley Quotes
David Brinkley Quotes David Brinkley was a popular television newscaster. President George W. Bush called him the “elder ...
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David Winston Quotes
David Winston Quotes Bonnett and I had the opportunity to take several classes from David Winston, AHG, an Herbalist ...
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Diane Arbus Quotes
Diane Arbus Quotes Bonne and I have had my brother Greg’s Diane Arbus book of photographic portraits, An Aperture ...
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Dietrich Bonhoeffer Quotes
Dietrich Bonhoeffer Quotes Dietrich Bonhoeffer was a German theologian and Lutheran pastor. He participated in the German resistance ...
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Don Marquis Quotes
Don Marquis Quotes American humorist, journalist, novelist, poet, cartoonist, newspaper columnist and playwright, Don Marquis. Image: Photo of ...
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Ed Begley Jr. Quotes
Ed Begley Jr. Quotes Ed Begley Jr. is a character actor and environmental activist who, along with his ...
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Elizabeth II Quotes
Elizabeth II Quotes The much-loved monarch of the British Isles (and 16 independent states and their overseas territories), ...
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Epictetus Quotes
Epictetus, born into slavery around 50 A.D. eventually known as one of the most outstanding philosophers of all ...
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Flannery O’Connor Quotes
Flannery O’Connor Quotes An American writer particularly acclaimed for her stories that combined sardonic humor with tragic brutality, ...
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Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes
Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes America’s most famous architect, Frank Lloyd Wright was born in 1867. He had a ...
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Franz Kafka Quotes
Franz Kafka Quotes Considered to be one of the most important and influential writers in Western literature, Franz ...
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Garrison Keillor Quotes
Garrison Keillor Quotes Both Bonnett and I first listened to Garrison Kiellor’s morning radio while getting ready for our ...
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George Bernard Shaw Quotes
George Bernard Shaw Quotes While writing his many plays, stories and novels, Shaw supported himself as a journalist, ...
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George Washington Quotes
George Washington Quotes George Washington was the first President of the United States after leading the Continental Army ...
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Groucho Marx Quotes
Groucho Marx Quotes Image: Groucho Marx, comedian, actor, writer, stage, film, radio, and tv star “I’ve had a ...
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Helen Keller Quotes
Helen Keller Quotes I was first inspired by the story of Helen Keller from the 1962 movie “The ...
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Henry David Thoreau Quotes
Henry David Thoreau Quotes Image: Photo of Henry David Thoreau, poet and philosopher Is one’s work life in ...
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Horst M. Rechelbacher Quotes
Horst M. Rechelbacher Quotes Horst M. Rechelbacher, founder of Aveda, an organic plant-based line of salon products, is an ...
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Igor Stravinsky Quotes
Igor Stravinsky Quotes Igor Stravinsky was financially successful as a composer, conductor and performer of his music. He was ...
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Ingrid Bergman Quotes
Ingrid Bergman Quotes Ingrid Bergman was born in Stockholm, Sweden and had a childhood filled with the tragedy of her ...
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Isabella Rossellini Quotes
Isabella Rossellini Quotes The daughter of actress Ingrid Bergman (Casablanca, For Whom the Bell Tolls, and Spellbound), and of movie director Roberto ...
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Jack Handey Quotes
Jack Handey Quotes Image: Photo of humorist, Jack Handey “The face of a child can say it all, ...
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James Yorke Quotes
James Yorke Quotes The 21st century mathematician James Yorke is renowned for his work involving the theory of ...
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John Locke Quotes
John Locke Quotes John Locke, a writer, philosopher, political theorist and activist and medical doctor and researcher, was ...
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John Updike Quotes
American poet, novelist, short story author, and essayist, John Updike, won numerous literary awards and enjoyed commercial success. ...
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Joyce Brothers Quotes
Joyce Brothers Quotes Dr. Joyce Brothers is a popular American psychologist. She continues to appear in television, radio, ...
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Kathy Griffin Quotes
Kathy Griffin Quotes Kathy Griffin is an Emmy Award-winning stand-up comedian, producer, actress, and a self-proclaimed “D-list celebrity.” She ...
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Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
Kurt Vonnegut Quotes Kurt Vonnegut wrote novels, short stories and essays. On a personal note, Bonnett and I have ...
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Lane Olinghouse Quotes
Lane Olinghouse Quotes From the pen of Lane Olinghouse, who seems to be best known for quotes like ...
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Lao Tsu Quotes A quote from the ancient Chinese philosopher Lao Tsu, whose name literally means ‘old master’. ...
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Lawrence J. Peter Quotes Dr. Peter is most famous for articulating his concept, which he called ‘The Peter ...
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Linus Pauling Quotes
Linus Pauling Quotes Linus Pauling was an American quantum chemist and biochemist who won the Nobel Prize for ...
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Lord Chesterfield Quotes
Lord Chesterfield Quotes Image: British statesman and diplomat, Lord Chesterfield In a letter to his son, Lord Chesterfield ...
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Louis Pasteur Quotes
Louis Pasteur Quotes Louis Pasteur is perhaps best known for his work in the germ theory of disease. ...
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Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
Mahatma Gandhi Quotes Attorney, vegetarian and social activist Mahatma Gandhi worked to alleviate poverty, discrimination, the inequality of ...
Read More Malcolm Forbes Quotes
Malcolm Forbes Quotes Malcolm Forbes became publisher of the magazine Forbes on his father’s death in 1954. The magazine grew ...
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Mark Twain Quotes
Mark Twain Quotes Samuel Clemens, who took the pen name of Mark Twain, worked hard to earn livelihood, ...
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Martin Buber Quotes
Martin Buber Quotes The theistic philosopher Martin Buber attributes “direction” as the way to focus for accomplishment. Image: ...
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Martin Luther King Jr. Quotes
Martin Luther King Jr. Quotes One of the main leaders of the American civil rights movement, Martin Luther ...
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Maya Angelou Quotes
Maya Angelou Quotes An important figure in the American Civil Rights Movement, Maya Angelou is also an author, ...
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Mel Brooks Quotes
Mel Brooks Quotes One of the few to have won an Oscar, an Emmy, a Tony, and a ...
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Michael Caine Quotes
Michael Caine Quotes Michael Caine is a two-time Academy Award winner and has acted in fifty films, to ...
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Michael J Fox Quotes
Michael J Fox Quotes Michael J. Fox is a Canadian and American film and television actor who has ...
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Michel de Montaigne Quotes
Michel de Montaigne Quotes Michel de Montaigne was one of the most influential and successful writers of the ...
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Mother Theresa Quotes
Mother Theresa Quotes Wise words from Mother Theresa, the Roman Catholic nun who won the Nobel Prize for ...
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Oprah Gail Winfrey Quotes
Oprah Gail Winfrey Quotes We know of no person more deserving of success and wealth than Oprah Winfrey, due ...
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Pablo Picasso Quotes
Pablo Picasso Quotes Pablo Picasso was one of the most influential artists of the 20th century. The Guinness ...
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Paul Giamatti Quotes
Paul Giamatti Quotes Paul Giamatti, who is a featured actor in the movie ‘Shoot ’Em Up’, began acting ...
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Peter Drucker Quotes
Peter Drucker Quotes Austrian born Peter Drucker, moved to Germany as a young man and earned a doctorate in ...
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Peter Jackson Quotes
Peter Jackson Quotes Born an only child in a small New Zealand town, Peter Jackson began his movie-making career when ...
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Phil Bolsta Quotes
Phil Bolsta established himself as a credible source of spiritual insight and wisdom with the publication of "Sixty ...
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R.D. Laing Quotes
R.D. Laing Quotes R. D. Laing was a Scottish psychiatrist who wrote extensively on mental illness. Image: Photo ...
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Rachel Carson Quotes
Rachel Carson Quotes Thus Rachel Carson’s most famous book, Silent Spring begins, elegant and dire, influencing the culture that was ...
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Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes Material for Ralph Waldo Emerson’s writings were quite often taken from his well-organized and ...
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Ram Dass Quotes
Ram Dass Quotes Author of the 1971 bestseller Be Here Now, Dr. Richard Alpert, (also known as Ram Dass), ...
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Reinhold Niebuhr Quotes
Reinhold Niebuhr was a Protestant theologian best known for his study of the task of relating the Christian ...
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Rene Descartes Quotes
Rene Descartes Quotes Image: Photo of Rene Descartes, French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist. Descartes, famous for his statement, ‘Cogito Ergo ...
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Rita Mae Brown Quotes
Rita Mae Brown Quotes American author of mysteries and other novels, poetry, screen plays and non-fiction, is also ...
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Robert Schwartz Quotes
Robert Schwartz Quotes While I appreciate the evident enthusiasm for entrepreneurship and other creative ventures implied in this ...
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From a publication by Rotary International, a service organization of over 32,000 clubs in 200+ countries with at ...
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Roy Blount Jr. Quotes
Roy Blount Jr. Quotes An American writer and humorist, Roy Blount Jr. is also an actor, reporter, and ...
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Roy Rogers Quotes
Roy Rogers Quotes Born Leonard Slye, Roy Rogers was a singer and cowboy actor. He and his wife Dale Evans (born Francis ...
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Rupert Murdoch Quotes
Rupert Murdoch Quotes Rupert Murdoch, is a well-known global media executive. In recent years he has been investing in ...
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Salvador Dali Quotes
Salvador Dali Quotes A prolific and controversial Spanish artist, Salvador Dali’s name is synonymous with the Surrealist art ...
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Sam Shepard Quotes
Sam Shepard Quotes Image: Photo of actor, playwright, author, screenwriter, and director Sam Shepard “Character is an essential ...
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Scott Adams Quotes
Scott Adams Quotes Scott Adams, the cartoonist whose social commentary largely focuses on the world of corporate management, ...
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Shirley MacLaine Quotes
Shirley MacLaine Quotes Shirley MacLaine is an Academy Award winning actress and author. She started out in ballet ...
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Simone de Beauvoir Quotes
Simone de Beauvoir Quotes Image: Photo of Simone de Beauvoir, French writer, political activist, and feminist Advice from ...
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Sophia Loren Quotes
Sophia Loren Quotes Sophia Loren is an Academy Award winning actress, widely known to be the most famous ...
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Steve Martin Quotes
Steve Martin Quotes Steve Martin studied philosophy in college. Image: Steve Martin, American actor, comedian, writer, producer, and ...
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Stewart Brand Quotes
Stewart Brand Quotes Stewart Brand is an author and creator of ‘The Whole Earth Catalog.’ He was one ...
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Temple Grandin Quotes
Temple Grandin Quotes Temple Grandin is a professor at Colorado State University and a professional designer of humane ...
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Thomas Jefferson Quotes
Thomas Jefferson Quotes The third President of the United States, Thomas Jefferson was the principal author of the ...
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Tony Bennett Quotes
Tony Bennett Quotes Tony Bennett, who is widely considered one of the best singers of the past two ...
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Trevor Fishlock Quotes
Trevor Fishlock Quotes We who reside in the rest of Minnesota, which the media refers to as “Greater ...
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“Though no one can go back and make a brand new start,anyone can start from now and make ...
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Walt Disney Quotes
Known as one of the most influential and innovative figures in the field of 20th century entertainment, Walt Disney was ...
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William Jennings Bryan Quotes
An American lawyer, statesman and politician, William Jennings Bryan was one of America’s most popular public speakers. Images: ...
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Yogi Berra Quotes
Lawrence “Yogi” Berra is a former Major League Baseball player and manager, whose fractured use of the English ...
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