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Abraham Lincoln ( 17 )Albert Camus ( 14 )
Albert Einstein ( 36 )
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Aldous Huxley ( 25 )
Alexander Pope ( 14 )
Alexander the Great ( 5 )
Alexandre Dumas ( 5 )
Alfred Lord Tennyson ( 15 )
Anthony Hopkins ( 6 )
Antoine de Saint-Exupery ( 10 )
Anton Chekhov ( 10 )
Aristotle ( 21 )
Arthur C Clarke ( 1 )
Arthur Miller ( 10 )
Author unknown ( 21 )
Barack Obama ( 11 )
Baruch Spinoza ( 3 )
Benjamin Franklin ( 18 )
Bertrand Russell ( 16 )
Bill Gates ( 14 )
Blaise Pascal ( 9 )
Bruce Lee ( 9 )
Buddha ( 24 )
Burton Hillis ( 1 )
Celia Thaxter ( 1 )
Charles Darwin ( 2 )
Charles Dickens ( 13 )
Charles Horton Cooley ( 1 )
Charlie Chaplin ( 8 )
Che Guevara ( 1 )
Chili Davis ( 1 )
Clarence Thomas ( 1 )
Coco Chanel ( 11 )
Confucius ( 18 )
D. H. Lawrence ( 24 )
Dalai Lama ( 17 )
Danish proverb ( 1 )
Deepak Chopra ( 12 )
Denzel Washington ( 3 )
Dolly Parton ( 1 )
Doug Larson ( 1 )
Eckhart Tolle ( 20 )
Edgar Allan Poe ( 29 )
Edgar Watson Howe ( 1 )
Eleanor Roosevelt ( 8 )
Emily Dickinson ( 5 )
Epictetus ( 15 )
Epicurus ( 7 )
Ernest Hemingway ( 28 )
Euripides ( 28 )
F. Scott Fitzgerald ( 4 )
Francis Bacon ( 10 )
Francois Rabelais ( 7 )
Frank Herbert ( 1 )
Franklin D. Roosevelt ( 4 )
Franz Kafka ( 2 )
Friedrich Nietzsche ( 24 )
Fyodor Dostoevsky ( 3 )
Fyodor Dostoyevsky ( 7 )
George Bernard Shaw ( 22 )
George Eliot ( 7 )
George Orwell ( 18 )
George Washington ( 2 )
Golda Meir ( 1 )
Graham Greene ( 2 )
Gustave Flaubert ( 5 )
H. G. Wells ( 1 )
Heda Bejar ( 1 )
Helen Keller ( 32 )
Henri Matisse ( 1 )
Henry Adams ( 1 )
Henry David Thoreau ( 22 )
Henry James ( 1 )
Herman Melville ( 8 )
Hippocrates ( 11 )
Honore de Balzac ( 7 )
Hugh Prather ( 1 )
Indigenous / Aboriginal saying ( 4 )
Jacques Derrida ( 1 )
James Dent ( 1 )
James Fallows ( 1 )
James Joyce ( 2 )
Japanese proverb ( 1 )
Jean Cocteau ( 4 )
Jean-Jacques Rousseau ( 13 )
Jean-Paul Sartre ( 11 )
Jewish Proverb ( 1 )
Jim Rohn ( 2 )
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ( 14 )
John Dewey ( 3 )
John F. Kennedy ( 13 )
John Keats ( 1 )
John Lennon ( 1 )
John Locke ( 2 )
John Steinbeck ( 16 )
Jonathan Swift ( 2 )
Judith Viorst ( 1 )
Kahlil Gibran ( 3 )
Karl Marx ( 6 )
Kenneth Hildebrand ( 1 )
Khalil Gibran ( 22 )
Lao Tzu ( 28 )
Larry Wilde ( 2 )
Leo Tolstoy ( 10 )
Leonardo da Vinci ( 15 )
Lev Vygotsky ( 1 )
Lord Byron ( 2 )
Lord Macaulay ( 8 )
Lucretius ( 3 )
Mahatma Gandhi ( 25 )
Malcolm X ( 19 )
Marc Chagall ( 1 )
Marcel Proust ( 4 )
Marcus Aurelius ( 25 )
Marcus Tullius Cicero ( 2 )
Mariel Hemingway ( 1 )
Marilyn Monroe ( 25 )
Mark Kennedy ( 1 )
Mark Twain ( 27 )
Martha Beck ( 1 )
Martin Luther King, Jr. ( 26 )
Max Weber ( 1 )
Maya Angelou ( 11 )
Mia Hamm, American World Cup Soccer champion ( 1 )
Michael Jordan ( 10 )
Michel Foucault ( 1 )
Mignon McLaughlin ( 1 )
Mohandas Gandhi ( 2 )
Moliere ( 9 )
Mother Teresa ( 19 )
Muhammad Ali ( 22 )
Napoleon Bonaparte ( 2 )
Napoleon Hill ( 12 )
Nathaniel Hawthorne ( 2 )
Nelson Mandela ( 25 )
Nelson Rockefeller ( 1 )
Niccolo Machiavelli ( 11 )
Oscar Wilde ( 22 )
Ovid ( 1 )
Pablo Picasso ( 9 )
Paulo Coelho ( 22 )
Paulo Freire ( 9 )
Phil Woosnam, Welsh soccer player and manager ( 1 )
Plato ( 18 )
Pope John XXIII ( 1 )
Prophet Muhammad ( 8 )
Ralph Waldo Emerson ( 22 )
Real Live Preacher ( 1 )
Rene Descartes ( 2 )
Richard Bach ( 1 )
Robert Frost ( 8 )
Roger Babson ( 6 )
Ronald Reagan ( 3 )
Roy L. Smith ( 1 )
Rumi ( 15 )
Russell Baker ( 1 )
Saint Augustine ( 14 )
Salvador Dali ( 2 )
Sean O Faolain ( 1 )
Seneca ( 29 )
Sigmund Freud ( 4 )
Simone Signoret ( 1 )
Socrates ( 5 )
Sophocles ( 3 )
Stella Adler ( 1 )
Stendhal ( 2 )
Stephen Hawking ( 1 )
Stephen King ( 2 )
Steve Jobs ( 16 )
T. S. Eliot ( 13 )
T.S. Eliot ( 1 )
Tennessee Williams ( 2 )
Tenneva Jordan ( 1 )
Theodore Roosevelt ( 5 )
Thich Nhat Hanh ( 8 )
Thomas A. Edison ( 12 )
Thomas Aquinas ( 1 )
Thomas Carlyle ( 7 )
Thomas Fuller ( 1 )
Thomas J. Watson, Sr. ( 1 )
Thomas Jefferson ( 2 )
Thucydides ( 13 )
Tony Robbins ( 13 )
Twyla Tharp ( 9 )
Umberto Eco ( 13 )
Victor Hugo ( 14 )
Vincent van Gogh ( 3 )
Virgil ( 2 )
Virginia Woolf ( 39 )
Voltaire ( 13 )
W. Somerset Maugham ( 14 )
W.W. Ziege ( 1 )
Walt Disney ( 14 )
Walt Whitman ( 2 )
Washington Irving ( 4 )
William B. Sprague ( 1 )
William Blake ( 4 )
William Faulkner ( 2 )
William Hazlitt ( 18 )
William James ( 3 )
William Shakespeare ( 22 )
William Wordsworth ( 10 )
Winston Churchill ( 21 )
Woody Allen ( 1 )
Yves Saint-Laurent ( 3 )
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