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We always hear about the haves and the have-nots. Why don't we hear about the doers and the do-nots.


Thomas Sewell

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GARY F EVANS... Nowadays people can be divided into three classes -- the haves the have-nots and the have-not-paid-f...
EARL WILSON Nowadays people can be divided into three classes - the haves the have-nots and the have-not-paid-fo...
EARL WILSON Much of human history has consisted of unequal conflicts between the haves and the have-nots.
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GARY F EVANS... I sit in my loft with the haves and look out at the have-nots — the bottom of the bottom — and I...
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ODO SIMON AGBO We have tears in our eyes
As we wave our goodbyes,
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RENEE AHDIEH Where were you?" Shahrzad tried to control the tremor in her voice.
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RENEE AHDIEH As always. As ever. As a rose to the sun.
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The universe may for...
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THOMAS JEFFERSON Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
THOMAS JEFFERSON Nothing is unchangeable but the inherent and unalienable rights of man.
THOMAS JEFFERSON It is always better to have no ideas than false ones; to believe nothing, than to believe what is wr...
THOMAS JEFFERSON No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no one ever will.
THOMAS JEFFERSON No freeman shall be debarred the use of arms.
THOMAS JEFFERSON No man will ever carry out of the Presidency the reputation which carried him into it.
THOMAS JEFFERSON He who knows best knows how little he knows.
THOMAS JEFFERSON Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have,...
THOMAS JEFFERSON To penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness, the general mind must be strengthened by educat...
THOMAS JEFFERSON Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching.
THOMAS JEFFERSON The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.
NORMAN THOMAS Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion.
THOMAS MANN One must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into the certainty of Yes or NO.
THOMAS CARLYLE The black family survived centuries of slavery and generations of Jim Crow, but it has disintegrated...
THOMAS SOWELL It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.
THOMAS MANN Doctors, dressed up in one professional costume or another, have been in busy practice since the ear...
LEWIS THOMAS It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.
THOMAS JEFFERSON Liberalism is totalitarianism with a human face.
THOMAS SOWELL