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  • Peter T. Forsyth You must live with people to know their problems, and live with God in order to solve them.
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  • Vauvenargues You must rouse into people's consciousness their own prudence and strength, if you want to raise their character.
    Vauvenargues
    French philosopher (1715 - 1747)
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  • Cassandra Clare You put books out into the world, and people form their own visuals and images and attachments to characters; those characters become part of them, and they have their feelings about them.
    Cassandra Clare
    American author of young adult fiction (1973 - )
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  • Tennessee Williams You said, ''They're harmless dreamers and they're loved by the people.'' - ''What,'' I asked you, ''is harmless about a dreamer, and what,'' I asked you, ''is harmless about the love of the people? Revolution only needs good dreamers who remember their dreams.''
    Tennessee Williams
    American playwright (1911 - 1983)
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  • Aaron Hill You talk no more of that gay nation now,
    Where men adore their wives, and woman's power
    Draws reverence from a polished people's softness,
    Their husbands' equals, and their lovers' queens;
    Free without scandal; wise without restraint;
    Their virtue due to nature, not to fear.
    Source: Zara (1735) Act I, Sc. 1.
    Aaron Hill
    English dramatist and writer (1685 - 1750)
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  • Andrea Dworkin You think intercourse is a private act; it's not, it's a social act. Men are sexually predatory in life; and women are sexually manipulative. When two individuals come together and leave their gender outside the bedroom door, then they make love.
    Andrea Dworkin
    American radical feminist and writer (1946 - 2005)
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  • Caleb Cushing You well know, sir, that when the Constitution was submitted to the People of the respective States for their adoption or rejection, it awakened the warmest debates of the several State conventions.
    Caleb Cushing
    American Democratic politician and diplomat (1800 - 1879)
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  • Buffalo Bill You who live your lives in cities or among peaceful ways cannot always tell whether your friends are the kind who would go through fire for you. But on the Plains one's friends have an opportunity to prove their mettle.
    Source: Buffalo Bills Life Story: An Autobiography
    Buffalo Bill
    American soldier, bison hunter, and showman (1846 - 1917)
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  • Gael Boardman You will get good attention and people will be more inclined to listen to you if you can make a statement whereby their response is, ''No Shit!'' or at least, ''No kidding!''
    Gael Boardman
     
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  • Bill Nelson You would have thought that after 9/11 the president would have finished the job in Afghanistan, and kept the focus on capturing Bin Laden and his al-Qaeda deputies, but he and his team gave top priority to their original plan to invade Iraq.
    Bill Nelson
    American attorney and politician (1942 - )
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  • Blake Farenthold You've got to do the same sort of outreach to Hispanics that you do to any other group. They want to see their congressman.
    Blake Farenthold
    American politician and lobbyist (1961 - )
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  • Bill Rancic Young children need to develop good habits that will be useful to them the rest of their lives. It is important to keep the lessons age-appropriate. For example, when your children start earning allowances, that would be a good time to teach them how to put some money in the bank instead of spending it all.
    Bill Rancic
    American entrepreneur (1971 - )
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  • Bruce Sutter Young pitchers don't throw enough in the minor leagues, and when they get to the majors, they don't have the stamina; their arms haven't been built up.
    Bruce Sutter
    American professional baseball pitcher (1953 - )
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  • Eli Stanley Jones Your powers are dead or dedicated. If they are dedicated, they are alive with God and tingle with surprising power. If they are saved up, taken care of for their own ends, they are dead.
    Eli Stanley Jones
    American missionary and theologian (1884 - 1973)
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  • William Wycherley Your women of honor, as you call em, are only chary of their reputations, not their persons; and 'Tis scandal that they would avoid, not men.
    William Wycherley
    British drama writer (1640 - 1715)
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  • Henry David Thoreau Youth gets together with their materials to build a bridge to the moon or maybe a palace on earth; then in middle age they decide to build a woodshed with them instead.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Barbara Ward [The Western Colonial system] shook all the societies in the world loose from their old moorings. But it seems indifferent whether or not they reach safe harbour in the end.
    Barbara Ward
    British economist
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  • Edgar Allan Poe A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this - that offences against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made - not to understand - but to feel - as crime.
    Edgar Allan Poe
    American poet, writer and critic (1809 - 1849)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson All conservatives are such from personal defects. They have been effeminated by position or nature, born halt and blind, through luxury of their parents, and can only, like invalids, act on the defensive.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • John Kenneth Galbraith 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
    American economist (1908 - 2006)
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