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“It’s an extra dividend when you like the girl you’re in love with.” -Clark Gable
William Clark Gable was born on 1 February 1901 in Cadiz, Ohio, United States of America. He became an actor. William Clark Gable passed on at 59 years of age on 16 November 1960 in Los Angeles, California, United States of America.
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“Whatever it is you’re scared of doing, do it.” -Neil Gaiman
Neil Richard MacKinnon Gaiman was born as Neil Richard Gaiman on 10 November 1960 in Portchester, Hampshire, England. He is a writer and a voice actor.
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“Most of my major disappointments have turned out to be blessings in disguise. So whenever anything bad does happen to me, I kind of sit back and feel - well, if I gave this enough time, it’ll turn out that this was good, so I shouldn’t worry about it too much.” -William Gaines
William Gaines was born in 1922. He is known as the publisher of “Mad” magazine. William Gaines passed on in 1992.
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“All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This and not much else is the essence of leadership.” -John Kenneth Galbraith
“Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists.” -John Kenneth Galbraith
“Meetings are indispensable when you don’t want to do anything.” -John Kenneth Galbraith
“People are the common denominator of progress. So . . . no improvement is possible with unimproved people and advance is certain when people are liberated and educated. It would be wrong to dismiss the importance of roads, railroads, power plants, mills, and the other familiar furniture of economic development . . . But we are coming to realize . . . that there is a certain sterility in economic monuments that stand alone in a sea of illiteracy. Conquest of illiteracy comes first.” -John Kenneth Galbraith
“There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting.” -John Kenneth Galbraith
“When people are the least sure they are often the most dogmatic.” -John Kenneth Galbraith
“You will find that the State is the kind of organization which though it does big things badly does small things badly too.” -John Kenneth Galbraith
John Kenneth Galbraith was born in 1908. He was an American economist and a diplomat. John Kenneth Galbraith passed on in 2006.
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“The only things you can take with you when you leave this world are things you’ve packed inside your heart.” -Susan Gale
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“Employment is nature’s physician, and is essential to human happiness.” -Galen
Aelius Galenus, also known as Claudius Galenus and Galen of Pergamon or simply as Galen, was born in C.E. 129 in Pergamon, Turkey. He became a Greek physician, a surgeon, an anatomist, and a writer on medicine and philosophy, in the Roman Empire. Galen passed on in C.E. 199 in Rome, Italy.
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“Change is inevitable - except from a vending machine.” -Robert C. Gallagher
“Even if you fall on your face, you’re still moving forward.” -Robert C. Gallagher
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“One is always seeking the touchstone that will dissolve one’s deficiencies as a person and as a craftsman. And one is always bumping up against the fact that there is none except hard work, concentration, and continued application.” -Paul Gallico
Paul Gallico was born in 1897. He was an American sportswriter and novelist. Paul Gallico passed on in 1976.
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“There is no knowledge for which so great a price is paid as a knowledge of the world; and no one ever became an adept in it except at the expense of a hardened and a wounded heart.” -Marguerite Gardiner
Marguerite Gardiner was born as Margaret Power in 1789 in County Tipperary, Ireland. She became a novelist, a journalist, and a literary hostess. Marguerite Gardiner passed on in 1849.
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“Deep down, I’m pretty superficial.” -Ava Gardner: as quoted in Roland Flamini: “Ava” (1983), chapter 8
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“All excellence involves discipline and tenacity of purpose.” -John W. Gardner
“For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted a hundred.” -John W. Gardner
“Leaders come in many forms, with many styles and diverse qualities. There are quiet leaders and leaders one can hear in the next county. Some find strength in eloquence, some in judgment, some in courage.” -John W. Gardner
“Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.” -John W. Gardner (1912 - 2002): as quoted in Matthew M. Radmanesh: “Cracking the Code of Our Physical Universe” (23 May 2006) page 269
“Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.” -John W. Gardner
“The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy: neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.” -John W. Gardner: “Excellence: Can We Be Equal and Excellent Too?” (1961), page 86
“True happiness involves the full use of one’s power and talents.” -John W. Gardner
“We have to face the fact that most men and women out there are more stale than they know, more bored than they care to admit.” -John W. Gardner (1912 - 2002): as quoted in “Self-Renewal” (1964)
John William Gardner was born on 8 October 1912 in Los Angeles, California, United States of America. He became a government administrator. He is known as the founder of Independent Sector and the watchdog group Common Cause. John William Gardner passed on at 89 years of age on 16 February 2002 in Palo Alto, California, United States of America.
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“Love is the greatest gift that one generation can leave to another.” -Richard Garnett
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“People may not always tell you how they feel about you, but they will always show you. Pay attention.” -Kim Garst
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“If others would but reflect on mathematical truths as deeply and as continuously as I have, they would make my discoveries.” -Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss
“You know that I write slowly. This is chiefly because I am never satisfied until I have said as much as possible in a few words, and writing briefly takes far more time than writing at length.” - Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss
Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss was born on 30 April 1777 in Brunswick, Germany. He became a mathematician and a physicist. Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss passed on at 77 years of age on 23 February 1855 in Göttingen, Germany.
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“We avoid the things that we’re afraid of because we think there will be dire consequences if we confront them. But the truly dire consequences in our lives come from avoiding things that we need to learn about or discover.” -Shakti Gawain
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“I see mysteries and complications wherever I look and I have never met a steadily logical person.” -Martha Gellhorn
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“The best way to inspire people to superior performance is to convince them by everything you do and by your everyday attitude that you are wholeheartedly supporting them.” -Harold Geneen
“When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you read words when reading books. You will be reading meanings.” -Harold Geneen
Harold Geneen was born in 1910. Harold Geneen passed on in 1997.
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“True music . . . must repeat the thought and inspirations of the people and the time. My people are Americans. My time is today.” -George Gershwin
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“Buy when everyone else is selling and hold until everyone else is buying. That’s not just a catchy slogan. It’s the very essence of successful investing.” -J. Paul Getty
“Formula for success: Rise early, work hard, strike oil.” -J. Paul Getty
“No one can possibly achieve any real and lasting success or get rich in business by being conformist.” -J. Paul Getty
“The man who comes up with a means for doing or producing almost anything better, faster or more economically has his future and his fortune at his fingertips.” -J. Paul Getty
“To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business.” -J. Paul Getty
Jean Paul Getty was born on 15 December 1892 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America. He became an industrialist, the founder of the Getty Oil Company, and an art collector. Jean Paul Getty passed on at 83 years of age on 6 June 1976 in Surrey, England.
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“In this inquiry I shall unfold the events that rescued our ancestors of Britain, and our neighbors of Gaul, from the civil and religious yoke of the Koran; that protected the majesty of Rome, and delayed the servitude of Constantinople; that invigorated the defense of the Christians, and scattered among their enemies the seeds of division and decay.” -Edward Gibbon: “Decline and Fall,” Chapter 52
“It was at Rome on the 15th of October 1764 as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol while the barefoot friars were singing vespers in the Temple of Jupiter that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind.” -Edward Gibbon
Edward Gibbon was born on 8 May 1737 in Putney, Surrey, England. He became a historian, a writer, and a Member of Parliament. He is known as the author of the six-volume work, “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire” (1776 - 1789). Edward Gibbon passed on at 56 years of age on 16 January 1794 in London, England.
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“No great thing comes to any man unless he has courage.” -James Gibbons
“There must be no tampering with the delicate machinery by which religious liberty and equality are secured, and no fostering of any spirit which would tend to destroy that machinery.” -James Gibbons
James Gibbons was born on 23 July 1834 in Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America. He was Roman Catholic by faith. He served as the Bishop of Richmond from 1872 to 1877 and as the ninth Archbishop of Baltimore from 1877 until his passing. He became a cardinal in 1886. James Gibbons passed on at 86 years of age on 24 March 1921 in Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America.
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“It’s better to give than to lend, and it costs about the same.” -Philip Gibbs
Philip Armand Hamilton Gibbs, known at an early age as Philip Amande Thomas, was born on 1 May 1877 in London, England. He was Roman Catholic by faith. He became a war correspondent during World War 1, a novelist, and a journalist. He was a brother of A. Hamilton Gibbs and Cosmo Hamilton. He was married to Agnes Rowland in 1898. Philip Armand Hamilton Gibbs passed on at 84 years of age on 10 March 1962 in Godalming, Surrey, England.
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“Do not be delighted because of praise, and do not be distressed because of blame.” -Kahlil Gibran: “Secrets of the Heart” (1965)
“The lights of stars that were extinguished ages ago still reach us. So it is with great men who died centuries ago, but still reach us with the radiations of their personalities.” -Kahlil Gibran
“There are those who give little of the much they have - and they give it for recognition, and their hidden desire makes their gift unwholesome. And there are those who have little and give it all. These are the believers in life and the bounty of life and their coffers are never empty. There are those who give in joy and their joy is their reward.” -Kahlil Gibran
Gibran Khalil Gibran, also known simply as Khalil Gibran, sometimes spelled as Kahlil Gibran, was born as Gibran Khalil Gibran bin Mikha’il bin Sa’ad on 6 January 1883 in Bsharri, Beirut Vilayet, Ottoman Empire (now Lebanon). He emigrated to the United States of America with his family in 1895. He never married. He became an artist, a poet, and a novelist. He is known for the book, “The Prophet” (1923), a series of philosophical essays written in English prose. Kahlil Gibran passed on at 48 years of age on 10 April 1931 in New York City, New York, United States of America.
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“We can often better help another by fanning a glimmer of goodness than by censuring his faults.” -Edmund Gibson
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“Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.” -André Gide
“Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.” -André Gide
“In order to be utterly happy the only thing necessary is to refrain from comparing this moment with other moments in the past, which I often did not fully enjoy because I was comparing them with other moments of the future.” -André Gide
“Know that joy is rarer, more difficult, and more beautiful than sadness. Once you make this all-important discovery, you must embrace joy as a moral obligation.” -André Gide: “The Fruits of the Earth” (1897)
André Paul Guillaume Gide was born on 22 November 1869 in Paris, France. He became a novelist, an essayist, a dramatist, and a critic. André Paul Guillaume Gide passed on at 81 years of age on 19 February 1951 in Paris, France.
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“Things are seldom what they seem.” -W. S. Gilbert
William Schwenck Gilbert, also known as W. S. Gilbert, was born in 1836. He became an English dramatist, a librettist, a writer of comic and satirical poetry, and an illustrator. He is known for the fourteen comic operas he produced in collaboration with composer Arthur Sullivan. The most famous of these include “H. M. S. Pinafore” (25 May 1878) and “The Pirates of Penzance” (31 December 1879), and The Mikado (14 March 1885). William Schwenck Gilbert passed on in 1911.
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“The ability to think straight, some knowledge of the past, some vision of the future, some urge to fit that service into the well-being of the community - these are the most vital things that education must try to produce.” -Virginia Gildersleeve
Virginia Gildersleeve was born in 1877. Virginia Gildersleeve passed on in 1965.
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“The more you love what you are doing, the more successful it will be for you.” -Jerry Gillies
“Confront your fears, listen them, get to know them, and only then will you be able to put them aside and move ahead.” -Jerry Gillies
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“People need dreams, there’s as much nourishment in them as food.” -Dorothy Gilman
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“If you can learn from hard knocks, you can also learn from soft touches.” -Carolyn Gilmore
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“Whoever controls the media - the images - controls the culture.” -Allen Ginsberg
Allen Ginsberg was born in 1926. Allen Ginsberg passed on in 1997.
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“Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is.” -Bhagavad Gita (about 400 B.C.E.)
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“People aren’t afraid of failure, they just don’t know how to succeed.” -Jeffrey Gitomer
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“Compassion doesn’t weaken leadership, it makes it stronger.” -Rudolph Giuliani
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“We are where we are, as we are, because of what we are.” -Earle J. Glade
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“Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won’t have to hunt for happiness.” -William E. Gladstone
“Never forget that the purpose for which a man lives is the improvement of the man himself, so that he may go out of this world having, in his great sphere or his small one, done some little good for his fellow creatures, and labored a little to diminish the sin and sorrow that are in the world.” -William E. Gladstone
“No man ever became great or good except through many and great mistakes.” -William E. Gladstone
“We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace.” -William E. Gladstone
William Ewart Gladstone was born on 29 December 1809 in Rodney Street, Liverpool, England. He became a politician. In a career lasting more than sixty years, he served as Prime Minister four times (1868 - 1874; 1880 - 1885; 1886; and 1892 - 1894). Mr. Gladstone was also Britain’s oldest Prime Minister, at 84 years of age when he resigned for the last time. He had served as Chancellor of the Exchequer four times. William Ewart Gladstone passed on at 88 years of age on 19 May 1898 in Hawarden Castle, Wales.
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“No life is so hard that you cannot make it easier by the way you take it.” -Ellen Glasgow
“There is no support so strong as the strength that enables one to stand alone.” -Ellen Glasgow: “The Shadowy Third” (1923)
“What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens.” -Ellen Glasgow
Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow was born on 22 April 1873 in Richmond, Virginia, United States of America. She never married and never had children. She became a novelist. Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow passed on at 72 years of age on 21 November 1945 in Richmond, Virginia, United States of America.
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“A loyal friend laughs at your jokes when they’re not so good, and sympathizes with your problems when they’re not so bad.” -Arnold H. Glasow
“Praise does wonders for our sense of hearing.” -Arnold H. Glasow
“Success is simple. Do what’s right, the right way, at the right time.” -Arnold H. Glasow
“The truth will ouch.” -Arnold H. Glasow
Arnold Henry Glasow was born on 2 July 1905 in Fond-du-lac, Wisconsin, United States of America. He was married to Vera Glasow (maiden name Eade (1903 - 2012)). He became a writer and a businessman. He created a humor magazine that he marketed to businesses, and which they could then customize to become their own in-house publications. He was a regular contributor to the various humor sections of the “Reader’s Digest” magazine. He is known for his book, “Glasow’s Gloombusters” (28 June 1995). Arnold Henry Glasow passed on at 94 years of age on 4 November 1999 in Freeport, Illinois, United States of America.
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“I don’t know what you could say about a day in which you have seen four beautiful sunsets.” -John Glenn
John Herschel Glenn, Junior was born on 18 July 1921 in Cambridge, Ohio, United States of America. He became an astronaut and United States Senator (1974 - 1999). John Herschel Glenn, Junior passed on at 95 years of age on 8 December 2016 in Columbus, Ohio, United States of America.
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“The older I grow, the more I listen to people who don’t talk much.” -Germain G. Glidden
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“On the other side of fear lies freedom!” -J. B. Glossinger
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“If you would find happiness and joy, lose your life in some noble cause. A worthy purpose must be at the center of every worthy life.” -Jack H. Goaslind, Junior
“Striving for happiness is a long, hard journey with many challenges. It requires eternal vigilance to win the victory. You cannot succeed with sporadic little flashes of effort. Constant and valiant living is necessary.” -Jack H. Goaslind, Junior
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“Romance is about the little things.” -Gregory J. Godeck
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“One is taught by experience to put a premium on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are.” -Gail Godwin
“The best antidote I have found is to yearn for something. As long as you yearn, you can’t congeal: There is a forward motion to yearning.” -Gail Godwin
Gail Kathleen Godwin was born on 18 June 1937 in Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America. She is avid swimmer and an Episcopalian by faith. She became a novelist and a short story writer.
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“The proper method for hastening the decay of error, is not, by brute force, or by regulation which is one of the classes of force, to endeavor to reduce men to intellectual uniformity; but on the contrary by teaching every man to think for himself.” -William Godwin
William Godwin was born on 3 March 1756 in Wisbech, Cambridgeshire, England. He was married to Mary Wollstonecraft in 1797. He became a social philosopher, a political journalist, a novelist, a biographer, and a publisher of children’s books. William Godwin passed on at 80 years of age on 7 April 1836 in London, England.
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“There are two types of people who will tell you that you cannot make a difference in this world: Those who are afraid to try and those who are afraid that you will succeed.” -Ray Goforth
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“A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory.” -Arthur Golden
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“There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of the people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will have truly defeated age.” -William Golding
William Golding was born in 1911. He was an English novelist. William Golding passed on in 1993.
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“Every absurdity has now a champion to defend it: and as he is generally much in the wrong, so he has always much to say; for error is ever talkative.” -Oliver Goldsmith: “The Traveler: Or, A Prospect of Society” (1764)
“Fortune is ever seen accompanying industry.” -Oliver Goldsmith: “The Vicar of Wakefield” (1766)
“He who seeks for applause only from without has all his happiness in another’s keeping.” -Oliver Goldsmith
“I always get the better when I argue alone.” -Oliver Goldsmith
“I chose my wife as she did her wedding gown, not for a fine glossy surface, but such qualities as would wear well.” -Oliver Goldsmith
“I was tired of being always wise.” -Oliver Goldsmith
“Our greatest glory consists not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.” -Oliver Goldsmith
“The greatest object in the Universe, says a certain philosopher, is a good man struggling with adversity: yet there is still a greater, which is the good man that comes to relieve it.” -Oliver Goldsmith: “The Vicar of Wakefield” (1766)
Oliver Goldsmith was born on 10 November 1728 in the Kingdom of Ireland. He was disfigured by smallpox at 8 years of age. He was an Anglican by faith. He became a physician, a poet, a novelist, and a dramatist. He is known for his novel, “The Vicar of Wakefield” (1766), his pastoral poem, “The Deserted Village” (1770), and his plays, including, “The Good-Natur’d Man” (1768). Oliver Goldsmith passed on at 45 years of age on 4 April 1774 in London, England.
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“A hospital is no place to be sick.” -Samuel Goldwyn
“Go see it and see for yourself why you shouldn’t go see it.” -Samuel Goldwyn
“I don’t want any yes-men around me. I want everybody to tell me the truth even if it costs them their jobs.” -Samuel Goldwyn
“Spare no expense to make everything as economical as possible.” -Samuel Goldwyn
“You’ve got to take the bitter with the sour.” -Samuel Goldwyn
Samuel ‘Sam’ Goldwyn was born as Schmuel Gelbfisz in 1882. He was an American film producer. Samuel ‘Sam’ Goldwyn passed on in 1974.
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“Enjoyment is not a goal. It is a feeling that accompanies important ongoing activity.” -Paul Goodman
“Few great men could pass personnel.” -Paul Goodman: “Growing Up Absurd” (1956), page 153
Paul Goodman was born on 9 September 1911. He was an American writer and poet. Paul Goodman passed on at 60 years of age on 2 August 1972.
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“A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice.” -Nadine Gordimer
Nadine Gordimer was born on 20 November 1923 in Springs, Transvaal, Union of South Africa. She was Jewish by faith. She became a novelist and a writer. Nadine Gordimer passed on at 90 years of age on 13 July 2014 in Johannesburg, South Africa.
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“Nothing living should ever be treated with contempt. Whatever it is that lives, a man, a tree, or a bird, should be touched gently because the time is short. Civilization is another word for respect for life.” -Elizabeth Goudge
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“We hurt people by being too busy. Too busy to notice their needs. Too busy to drop that note of comfort or encouragement or assurance of love. Too busy to listen when someone needs to talk. Too busy to care.” -Billy Graham
William Franklin ‘Billy’ Graham, Junior was born in 1918. He was an American Christian evangelist. William Franklin ‘Billy’ Graham, Junior passed on in 2018.
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“To love what you do and feel that it matters - how could anything be more fun?” -Katharine Graham
Katharine Graham was born in 1917. She was an American newspaper executive. Katharine Graham passed on in 2001.
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“Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can.” -Martha Graham
Martha Graham was born in 1894. She was an American dancer and choreographer. Martha Graham passed on in 1991.
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“I’ve found that often, just when you think you’ve hit a wall, you experience a breakthrough that takes you to new heights in accomplishment.” -Stedman Graham
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“More important than talent, strength, or knowledge is the ability to laugh at yourself and enjoy the pursuit of your dreams.” -Amy Grant
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“My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. In between, I occupy myself as best I can.” -Cary Grant
Cary Grant is a pseudonym of Archibald Alexander Leach, who was born in 1904. He was an English stage actor and a Hollywood film actor. He became an American citizen in 1942. Archibald Alexander Leach passed on in 1986.
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“He can who thinks he can.” -Heber J. Grant
“If a man has the assurance within his own heart that he is worthy and that he is laboring to the best of his ability to do good, he can stand up under the condemnation the criticism and the censure of those by whom he is surrounded.” -Heber J. Grant
“If we are striving, if we are working, if we are trying to the best of our ability to improve day by day, then we are in the line of our duty.” -Heber J. Grant
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“Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs.” -Farrah Gray
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“This I know well: that the chief part of every life consists of small things . . . Blessed is the man who can enjoy the small things, the common beauties, the little day-to-day events, sunshine on the field, birds on the bough, breakfast, dinner, supper, the daily paper on the porch, a friend passing by. So many people who go afield for enjoyment leave it behind them at home.” -David Grayson
“Happiness, I have discovered, is nearly always a rebound from hard work.” -David Grayson
David Grayson is a pseudonym of Ray Stannard Baker, was born on 17 April 1870 in Lansing, Michigan, United States of America. He became a historian and a biographer. David Grayson passed on at 76 years of age on 12 July 1946 in Amherst, Massachusetts, United States of America.
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“Go West, young man, and grow up with the country.” -Horace Greeley
“I do not regret having braved public opinion, when I knew it was wrong and was sure it would be merciless.” -Horace Greeley
“No amount of preaching, exhortation, sympathy, benevolence, will render the condition of our working women what it should be so long as the kitchen and the needle are substantially their only resources.” -Horace Greeley
“The darkest hour in any man’s life is when he sits down to plan how to get money without earning it.” -Horace Greeley
Horace Greeley was born in 1811. He was an editor of the “New-York Tribune” newspaper and a United States Congress member representing New York State. Horace Greeley passed on in 1872.
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“The secret to success is to start from scratch and keep on scratching.” -Dennis Green
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“A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him.” -Sidney Greenberg
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“Make the commitment to gradually improve both your exercise performance and your eating habits. Take your time, what’s the hurry? View it as a journey to improve yourself. Although this is difficult, focus on the journey, not the end result.” -Bob Greene (Robert Bernard ‘Bob’ Greene, Junior (born 1947))
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“Our worst enemies here are not the ignorant and simple, however cruel; our worst enemies are the intelligent and corrupt.” -Graham Greene
Henry Graham ‘Graham’ Greene was born in 1904. He was an English writer of more than 25 novels. Henry Graham ‘Graham’ Greene passed on in 1991.
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“Be not anxious about what you have, but about what you are.” -Gregory I
Gregory I, also known as Pope Gregory I and Gregory the Great, was born in C.E. 540. Gregory I passed on in C.E. 604.
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“Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men, but from doing something worthwhile.” -Wilfred Grenfell
Wilfred Grenfell was born in 1865. Wilfred Grenfell passed on in 1940.
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“Life is not a dress rehearsal. Quit practicing what you’re going to do, and just do it. In one bold stroke you can transform today.” -Marilyn Grey
Marilyn Grey is a motivational speaker
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“Books won’t stay banned. They won’t burn. Ideas won’t go to jail. In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas.” -W. Griswold
Alfred Whitney Griswold.
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“Winners lose much more often than losers. So if you keep losing but you’re still trying, keep it up! You’re right on track.” -Matthew Keith Groves
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“Individuals we consider happy commonly seem complete in the present and we see them constantly in their wholeness: attentive, cheerful, open rather than closed to events, integral in the moment rather than distended across time by regret or anxiety.” -Robert Grudin
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“Truth is not determined by majority vote.” -Doug Gwyn
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“It’s an extra dividend when you like the girl you’re in love with.” -Clark Gable
William Clark Gable was born on 1 February 1901 in Cadiz, Ohio, United States of America. He became an actor. William Clark Gable passed on at 59 years of age on 16 November 1960 in Los Angeles, California, United States of America.
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“Whatever it is you’re scared of doing, do it.” -Neil Gaiman
Neil Richard MacKinnon Gaiman was born as Neil Richard Gaiman on 10 November 1960 in Portchester, Hampshire, England. He is a writer and a voice actor.
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“Most of my major disappointments have turned out to be blessings in disguise. So whenever anything bad does happen to me, I kind of sit back and feel - well, if I gave this enough time, it’ll turn out that this was good, so I shouldn’t worry about it too much.” -William Gaines
William Gaines was born in 1922. He is known as the publisher of “Mad” magazine. William Gaines passed on in 1992.
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“All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This and not much else is the essence of leadership.” -John Kenneth Galbraith
“Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists.” -John Kenneth Galbraith
“Meetings are indispensable when you don’t want to do anything.” -John Kenneth Galbraith
“People are the common denominator of progress. So . . . no improvement is possible with unimproved people and advance is certain when people are liberated and educated. It would be wrong to dismiss the importance of roads, railroads, power plants, mills, and the other familiar furniture of economic development . . . But we are coming to realize . . . that there is a certain sterility in economic monuments that stand alone in a sea of illiteracy. Conquest of illiteracy comes first.” -John Kenneth Galbraith
“There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting.” -John Kenneth Galbraith
“When people are the least sure they are often the most dogmatic.” -John Kenneth Galbraith
“You will find that the State is the kind of organization which though it does big things badly does small things badly too.” -John Kenneth Galbraith
John Kenneth Galbraith was born in 1908. He was an American economist and a diplomat. John Kenneth Galbraith passed on in 2006.
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“The only things you can take with you when you leave this world are things you’ve packed inside your heart.” -Susan Gale
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“Employment is nature’s physician, and is essential to human happiness.” -Galen
Aelius Galenus, also known as Claudius Galenus and Galen of Pergamon or simply as Galen, was born in C.E. 129 in Pergamon, Turkey. He became a Greek physician, a surgeon, an anatomist, and a writer on medicine and philosophy, in the Roman Empire. Galen passed on in C.E. 199 in Rome, Italy.
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“Change is inevitable - except from a vending machine.” -Robert C. Gallagher
“Even if you fall on your face, you’re still moving forward.” -Robert C. Gallagher
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“One is always seeking the touchstone that will dissolve one’s deficiencies as a person and as a craftsman. And one is always bumping up against the fact that there is none except hard work, concentration, and continued application.” -Paul Gallico
Paul Gallico was born in 1897. He was an American sportswriter and novelist. Paul Gallico passed on in 1976.
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“There is no knowledge for which so great a price is paid as a knowledge of the world; and no one ever became an adept in it except at the expense of a hardened and a wounded heart.” -Marguerite Gardiner
Marguerite Gardiner was born as Margaret Power in 1789 in County Tipperary, Ireland. She became a novelist, a journalist, and a literary hostess. Marguerite Gardiner passed on in 1849.
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“Deep down, I’m pretty superficial.” -Ava Gardner: as quoted in Roland Flamini: “Ava” (1983), chapter 8
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“All excellence involves discipline and tenacity of purpose.” -John W. Gardner
“For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted a hundred.” -John W. Gardner
“Leaders come in many forms, with many styles and diverse qualities. There are quiet leaders and leaders one can hear in the next county. Some find strength in eloquence, some in judgment, some in courage.” -John W. Gardner
“Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.” -John W. Gardner (1912 - 2002): as quoted in Matthew M. Radmanesh: “Cracking the Code of Our Physical Universe” (23 May 2006) page 269
“Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.” -John W. Gardner
“The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy: neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.” -John W. Gardner: “Excellence: Can We Be Equal and Excellent Too?” (1961), page 86
“True happiness involves the full use of one’s power and talents.” -John W. Gardner
“We have to face the fact that most men and women out there are more stale than they know, more bored than they care to admit.” -John W. Gardner (1912 - 2002): as quoted in “Self-Renewal” (1964)
John William Gardner was born on 8 October 1912 in Los Angeles, California, United States of America. He became a government administrator. He is known as the founder of Independent Sector and the watchdog group Common Cause. John William Gardner passed on at 89 years of age on 16 February 2002 in Palo Alto, California, United States of America.
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“Love is the greatest gift that one generation can leave to another.” -Richard Garnett
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“People may not always tell you how they feel about you, but they will always show you. Pay attention.” -Kim Garst
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“If others would but reflect on mathematical truths as deeply and as continuously as I have, they would make my discoveries.” -Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss
“You know that I write slowly. This is chiefly because I am never satisfied until I have said as much as possible in a few words, and writing briefly takes far more time than writing at length.” - Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss
Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss was born on 30 April 1777 in Brunswick, Germany. He became a mathematician and a physicist. Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss passed on at 77 years of age on 23 February 1855 in Göttingen, Germany.
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“We avoid the things that we’re afraid of because we think there will be dire consequences if we confront them. But the truly dire consequences in our lives come from avoiding things that we need to learn about or discover.” -Shakti Gawain
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“I see mysteries and complications wherever I look and I have never met a steadily logical person.” -Martha Gellhorn
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“The best way to inspire people to superior performance is to convince them by everything you do and by your everyday attitude that you are wholeheartedly supporting them.” -Harold Geneen
“When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you read words when reading books. You will be reading meanings.” -Harold Geneen
Harold Geneen was born in 1910. Harold Geneen passed on in 1997.
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“True music . . . must repeat the thought and inspirations of the people and the time. My people are Americans. My time is today.” -George Gershwin
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“Buy when everyone else is selling and hold until everyone else is buying. That’s not just a catchy slogan. It’s the very essence of successful investing.” -J. Paul Getty
“Formula for success: Rise early, work hard, strike oil.” -J. Paul Getty
“No one can possibly achieve any real and lasting success or get rich in business by being conformist.” -J. Paul Getty
“The man who comes up with a means for doing or producing almost anything better, faster or more economically has his future and his fortune at his fingertips.” -J. Paul Getty
“To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business.” -J. Paul Getty
Jean Paul Getty was born on 15 December 1892 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America. He became an industrialist, the founder of the Getty Oil Company, and an art collector. Jean Paul Getty passed on at 83 years of age on 6 June 1976 in Surrey, England.
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“In this inquiry I shall unfold the events that rescued our ancestors of Britain, and our neighbors of Gaul, from the civil and religious yoke of the Koran; that protected the majesty of Rome, and delayed the servitude of Constantinople; that invigorated the defense of the Christians, and scattered among their enemies the seeds of division and decay.” -Edward Gibbon: “Decline and Fall,” Chapter 52
“It was at Rome on the 15th of October 1764 as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol while the barefoot friars were singing vespers in the Temple of Jupiter that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind.” -Edward Gibbon
Edward Gibbon was born on 8 May 1737 in Putney, Surrey, England. He became a historian, a writer, and a Member of Parliament. He is known as the author of the six-volume work, “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire” (1776 - 1789). Edward Gibbon passed on at 56 years of age on 16 January 1794 in London, England.
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“No great thing comes to any man unless he has courage.” -James Gibbons
“There must be no tampering with the delicate machinery by which religious liberty and equality are secured, and no fostering of any spirit which would tend to destroy that machinery.” -James Gibbons
James Gibbons was born on 23 July 1834 in Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America. He was Roman Catholic by faith. He served as the Bishop of Richmond from 1872 to 1877 and as the ninth Archbishop of Baltimore from 1877 until his passing. He became a cardinal in 1886. James Gibbons passed on at 86 years of age on 24 March 1921 in Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America.
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“It’s better to give than to lend, and it costs about the same.” -Philip Gibbs
Philip Armand Hamilton Gibbs, known at an early age as Philip Amande Thomas, was born on 1 May 1877 in London, England. He was Roman Catholic by faith. He became a war correspondent during World War 1, a novelist, and a journalist. He was a brother of A. Hamilton Gibbs and Cosmo Hamilton. He was married to Agnes Rowland in 1898. Philip Armand Hamilton Gibbs passed on at 84 years of age on 10 March 1962 in Godalming, Surrey, England.
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“Do not be delighted because of praise, and do not be distressed because of blame.” -Kahlil Gibran: “Secrets of the Heart” (1965)
“The lights of stars that were extinguished ages ago still reach us. So it is with great men who died centuries ago, but still reach us with the radiations of their personalities.” -Kahlil Gibran
“There are those who give little of the much they have - and they give it for recognition, and their hidden desire makes their gift unwholesome. And there are those who have little and give it all. These are the believers in life and the bounty of life and their coffers are never empty. There are those who give in joy and their joy is their reward.” -Kahlil Gibran
Gibran Khalil Gibran, also known simply as Khalil Gibran, sometimes spelled as Kahlil Gibran, was born as Gibran Khalil Gibran bin Mikha’il bin Sa’ad on 6 January 1883 in Bsharri, Beirut Vilayet, Ottoman Empire (now Lebanon). He emigrated to the United States of America with his family in 1895. He never married. He became an artist, a poet, and a novelist. He is known for the book, “The Prophet” (1923), a series of philosophical essays written in English prose. Kahlil Gibran passed on at 48 years of age on 10 April 1931 in New York City, New York, United States of America.
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“We can often better help another by fanning a glimmer of goodness than by censuring his faults.” -Edmund Gibson
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“Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.” -André Gide
“Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.” -André Gide
“In order to be utterly happy the only thing necessary is to refrain from comparing this moment with other moments in the past, which I often did not fully enjoy because I was comparing them with other moments of the future.” -André Gide
“Know that joy is rarer, more difficult, and more beautiful than sadness. Once you make this all-important discovery, you must embrace joy as a moral obligation.” -André Gide: “The Fruits of the Earth” (1897)
André Paul Guillaume Gide was born on 22 November 1869 in Paris, France. He became a novelist, an essayist, a dramatist, and a critic. André Paul Guillaume Gide passed on at 81 years of age on 19 February 1951 in Paris, France.
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“Things are seldom what they seem.” -W. S. Gilbert
William Schwenck Gilbert, also known as W. S. Gilbert, was born in 1836. He became an English dramatist, a librettist, a writer of comic and satirical poetry, and an illustrator. He is known for the fourteen comic operas he produced in collaboration with composer Arthur Sullivan. The most famous of these include “H. M. S. Pinafore” (25 May 1878) and “The Pirates of Penzance” (31 December 1879), and The Mikado (14 March 1885). William Schwenck Gilbert passed on in 1911.
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“The ability to think straight, some knowledge of the past, some vision of the future, some urge to fit that service into the well-being of the community - these are the most vital things that education must try to produce.” -Virginia Gildersleeve
Virginia Gildersleeve was born in 1877. Virginia Gildersleeve passed on in 1965.
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“The more you love what you are doing, the more successful it will be for you.” -Jerry Gillies
“Confront your fears, listen them, get to know them, and only then will you be able to put them aside and move ahead.” -Jerry Gillies
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“People need dreams, there’s as much nourishment in them as food.” -Dorothy Gilman
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“If you can learn from hard knocks, you can also learn from soft touches.” -Carolyn Gilmore
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“Whoever controls the media - the images - controls the culture.” -Allen Ginsberg
Allen Ginsberg was born in 1926. Allen Ginsberg passed on in 1997.
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“Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is.” -Bhagavad Gita (about 400 B.C.E.)
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“People aren’t afraid of failure, they just don’t know how to succeed.” -Jeffrey Gitomer
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“Compassion doesn’t weaken leadership, it makes it stronger.” -Rudolph Giuliani
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“We are where we are, as we are, because of what we are.” -Earle J. Glade
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“Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won’t have to hunt for happiness.” -William E. Gladstone
“Never forget that the purpose for which a man lives is the improvement of the man himself, so that he may go out of this world having, in his great sphere or his small one, done some little good for his fellow creatures, and labored a little to diminish the sin and sorrow that are in the world.” -William E. Gladstone
“No man ever became great or good except through many and great mistakes.” -William E. Gladstone
“We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace.” -William E. Gladstone
William Ewart Gladstone was born on 29 December 1809 in Rodney Street, Liverpool, England. He became a politician. In a career lasting more than sixty years, he served as Prime Minister four times (1868 - 1874; 1880 - 1885; 1886; and 1892 - 1894). Mr. Gladstone was also Britain’s oldest Prime Minister, at 84 years of age when he resigned for the last time. He had served as Chancellor of the Exchequer four times. William Ewart Gladstone passed on at 88 years of age on 19 May 1898 in Hawarden Castle, Wales.
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“No life is so hard that you cannot make it easier by the way you take it.” -Ellen Glasgow
“There is no support so strong as the strength that enables one to stand alone.” -Ellen Glasgow: “The Shadowy Third” (1923)
“What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens.” -Ellen Glasgow
Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow was born on 22 April 1873 in Richmond, Virginia, United States of America. She never married and never had children. She became a novelist. Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow passed on at 72 years of age on 21 November 1945 in Richmond, Virginia, United States of America.
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“A loyal friend laughs at your jokes when they’re not so good, and sympathizes with your problems when they’re not so bad.” -Arnold H. Glasow
“Praise does wonders for our sense of hearing.” -Arnold H. Glasow
“Success is simple. Do what’s right, the right way, at the right time.” -Arnold H. Glasow
“The truth will ouch.” -Arnold H. Glasow
Arnold Henry Glasow was born on 2 July 1905 in Fond-du-lac, Wisconsin, United States of America. He was married to Vera Glasow (maiden name Eade (1903 - 2012)). He became a writer and a businessman. He created a humor magazine that he marketed to businesses, and which they could then customize to become their own in-house publications. He was a regular contributor to the various humor sections of the “Reader’s Digest” magazine. He is known for his book, “Glasow’s Gloombusters” (28 June 1995). Arnold Henry Glasow passed on at 94 years of age on 4 November 1999 in Freeport, Illinois, United States of America.
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“I don’t know what you could say about a day in which you have seen four beautiful sunsets.” -John Glenn
John Herschel Glenn, Junior was born on 18 July 1921 in Cambridge, Ohio, United States of America. He became an astronaut and United States Senator (1974 - 1999). John Herschel Glenn, Junior passed on at 95 years of age on 8 December 2016 in Columbus, Ohio, United States of America.
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“The older I grow, the more I listen to people who don’t talk much.” -Germain G. Glidden
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“On the other side of fear lies freedom!” -J. B. Glossinger
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“If you would find happiness and joy, lose your life in some noble cause. A worthy purpose must be at the center of every worthy life.” -Jack H. Goaslind, Junior
“Striving for happiness is a long, hard journey with many challenges. It requires eternal vigilance to win the victory. You cannot succeed with sporadic little flashes of effort. Constant and valiant living is necessary.” -Jack H. Goaslind, Junior
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“Romance is about the little things.” -Gregory J. Godeck
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“One is taught by experience to put a premium on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are.” -Gail Godwin
“The best antidote I have found is to yearn for something. As long as you yearn, you can’t congeal: There is a forward motion to yearning.” -Gail Godwin
Gail Kathleen Godwin was born on 18 June 1937 in Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America. She is avid swimmer and an Episcopalian by faith. She became a novelist and a short story writer.
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“The proper method for hastening the decay of error, is not, by brute force, or by regulation which is one of the classes of force, to endeavor to reduce men to intellectual uniformity; but on the contrary by teaching every man to think for himself.” -William Godwin
William Godwin was born on 3 March 1756 in Wisbech, Cambridgeshire, England. He was married to Mary Wollstonecraft in 1797. He became a social philosopher, a political journalist, a novelist, a biographer, and a publisher of children’s books. William Godwin passed on at 80 years of age on 7 April 1836 in London, England.
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“There are two types of people who will tell you that you cannot make a difference in this world: Those who are afraid to try and those who are afraid that you will succeed.” -Ray Goforth
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“A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory.” -Arthur Golden
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“There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of the people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will have truly defeated age.” -William Golding
William Golding was born in 1911. He was an English novelist. William Golding passed on in 1993.
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“Every absurdity has now a champion to defend it: and as he is generally much in the wrong, so he has always much to say; for error is ever talkative.” -Oliver Goldsmith: “The Traveler: Or, A Prospect of Society” (1764)
“Fortune is ever seen accompanying industry.” -Oliver Goldsmith: “The Vicar of Wakefield” (1766)
“He who seeks for applause only from without has all his happiness in another’s keeping.” -Oliver Goldsmith
“I always get the better when I argue alone.” -Oliver Goldsmith
“I chose my wife as she did her wedding gown, not for a fine glossy surface, but such qualities as would wear well.” -Oliver Goldsmith
“I was tired of being always wise.” -Oliver Goldsmith
“Our greatest glory consists not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.” -Oliver Goldsmith
“The greatest object in the Universe, says a certain philosopher, is a good man struggling with adversity: yet there is still a greater, which is the good man that comes to relieve it.” -Oliver Goldsmith: “The Vicar of Wakefield” (1766)
Oliver Goldsmith was born on 10 November 1728 in the Kingdom of Ireland. He was disfigured by smallpox at 8 years of age. He was an Anglican by faith. He became a physician, a poet, a novelist, and a dramatist. He is known for his novel, “The Vicar of Wakefield” (1766), his pastoral poem, “The Deserted Village” (1770), and his plays, including, “The Good-Natur’d Man” (1768). Oliver Goldsmith passed on at 45 years of age on 4 April 1774 in London, England.
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“A hospital is no place to be sick.” -Samuel Goldwyn
“Go see it and see for yourself why you shouldn’t go see it.” -Samuel Goldwyn
“I don’t want any yes-men around me. I want everybody to tell me the truth even if it costs them their jobs.” -Samuel Goldwyn
“Spare no expense to make everything as economical as possible.” -Samuel Goldwyn
“You’ve got to take the bitter with the sour.” -Samuel Goldwyn
Samuel ‘Sam’ Goldwyn was born as Schmuel Gelbfisz in 1882. He was an American film producer. Samuel ‘Sam’ Goldwyn passed on in 1974.
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“Enjoyment is not a goal. It is a feeling that accompanies important ongoing activity.” -Paul Goodman
“Few great men could pass personnel.” -Paul Goodman: “Growing Up Absurd” (1956), page 153
Paul Goodman was born on 9 September 1911. He was an American writer and poet. Paul Goodman passed on at 60 years of age on 2 August 1972.
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“A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice.” -Nadine Gordimer
Nadine Gordimer was born on 20 November 1923 in Springs, Transvaal, Union of South Africa. She was Jewish by faith. She became a novelist and a writer. Nadine Gordimer passed on at 90 years of age on 13 July 2014 in Johannesburg, South Africa.
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“Nothing living should ever be treated with contempt. Whatever it is that lives, a man, a tree, or a bird, should be touched gently because the time is short. Civilization is another word for respect for life.” -Elizabeth Goudge
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“We hurt people by being too busy. Too busy to notice their needs. Too busy to drop that note of comfort or encouragement or assurance of love. Too busy to listen when someone needs to talk. Too busy to care.” -Billy Graham
William Franklin ‘Billy’ Graham, Junior was born in 1918. He was an American Christian evangelist. William Franklin ‘Billy’ Graham, Junior passed on in 2018.
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“To love what you do and feel that it matters - how could anything be more fun?” -Katharine Graham
Katharine Graham was born in 1917. She was an American newspaper executive. Katharine Graham passed on in 2001.
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“Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can.” -Martha Graham
Martha Graham was born in 1894. She was an American dancer and choreographer. Martha Graham passed on in 1991.
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“I’ve found that often, just when you think you’ve hit a wall, you experience a breakthrough that takes you to new heights in accomplishment.” -Stedman Graham
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“More important than talent, strength, or knowledge is the ability to laugh at yourself and enjoy the pursuit of your dreams.” -Amy Grant
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“My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. In between, I occupy myself as best I can.” -Cary Grant
Cary Grant is a pseudonym of Archibald Alexander Leach, who was born in 1904. He was an English stage actor and a Hollywood film actor. He became an American citizen in 1942. Archibald Alexander Leach passed on in 1986.
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“He can who thinks he can.” -Heber J. Grant
“If a man has the assurance within his own heart that he is worthy and that he is laboring to the best of his ability to do good, he can stand up under the condemnation the criticism and the censure of those by whom he is surrounded.” -Heber J. Grant
“If we are striving, if we are working, if we are trying to the best of our ability to improve day by day, then we are in the line of our duty.” -Heber J. Grant
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“Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs.” -Farrah Gray
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“This I know well: that the chief part of every life consists of small things . . . Blessed is the man who can enjoy the small things, the common beauties, the little day-to-day events, sunshine on the field, birds on the bough, breakfast, dinner, supper, the daily paper on the porch, a friend passing by. So many people who go afield for enjoyment leave it behind them at home.” -David Grayson
“Happiness, I have discovered, is nearly always a rebound from hard work.” -David Grayson
David Grayson is a pseudonym of Ray Stannard Baker, was born on 17 April 1870 in Lansing, Michigan, United States of America. He became a historian and a biographer. David Grayson passed on at 76 years of age on 12 July 1946 in Amherst, Massachusetts, United States of America.
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“Go West, young man, and grow up with the country.” -Horace Greeley
“I do not regret having braved public opinion, when I knew it was wrong and was sure it would be merciless.” -Horace Greeley
“No amount of preaching, exhortation, sympathy, benevolence, will render the condition of our working women what it should be so long as the kitchen and the needle are substantially their only resources.” -Horace Greeley
“The darkest hour in any man’s life is when he sits down to plan how to get money without earning it.” -Horace Greeley
Horace Greeley was born in 1811. He was an editor of the “New-York Tribune” newspaper and a United States Congress member representing New York State. Horace Greeley passed on in 1872.
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“The secret to success is to start from scratch and keep on scratching.” -Dennis Green
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“A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him.” -Sidney Greenberg
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“Make the commitment to gradually improve both your exercise performance and your eating habits. Take your time, what’s the hurry? View it as a journey to improve yourself. Although this is difficult, focus on the journey, not the end result.” -Bob Greene (Robert Bernard ‘Bob’ Greene, Junior (born 1947))
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“Our worst enemies here are not the ignorant and simple, however cruel; our worst enemies are the intelligent and corrupt.” -Graham Greene
Henry Graham ‘Graham’ Greene was born in 1904. He was an English writer of more than 25 novels. Henry Graham ‘Graham’ Greene passed on in 1991.
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“Be not anxious about what you have, but about what you are.” -Gregory I
Gregory I, also known as Pope Gregory I and Gregory the Great, was born in C.E. 540. Gregory I passed on in C.E. 604.
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“Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men, but from doing something worthwhile.” -Wilfred Grenfell
Wilfred Grenfell was born in 1865. Wilfred Grenfell passed on in 1940.
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“Life is not a dress rehearsal. Quit practicing what you’re going to do, and just do it. In one bold stroke you can transform today.” -Marilyn Grey
Marilyn Grey is a motivational speaker
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“Books won’t stay banned. They won’t burn. Ideas won’t go to jail. In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas.” -W. Griswold
Alfred Whitney Griswold.
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“Winners lose much more often than losers. So if you keep losing but you’re still trying, keep it up! You’re right on track.” -Matthew Keith Groves
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“Individuals we consider happy commonly seem complete in the present and we see them constantly in their wholeness: attentive, cheerful, open rather than closed to events, integral in the moment rather than distended across time by regret or anxiety.” -Robert Grudin
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“Truth is not determined by majority vote.” -Doug Gwyn
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