Quotes with --because

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  • Forest Witcraft One hundred years from now, it will not matter what my bank account was, how big my house was, or what kind of car I drove. But the world may be a little better, because I was important in the life of a child.
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  • Michel de Certeau One is a socialist because one used to be one, no longer going to demonstrations, attending meetings, sending in one's dues, in short, without paying.
    Michel de Certeau
    French writer
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  • Victor Hugo One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil, to think is to do. The crossed arms work, the clasped hands act. The eyes upturned to Heaven are an act of creation.
    Victor Hugo
    French writer (1802 - 1885)
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  • Brock Lesnar One match that really sticks out for me, there's a bunch of matches with all the guys that I worked with. For me, when I got in the ring, I approached it as being real because I was a real character. I didn't have a gimmick name; I didn't have a gimmick finish.
    Brock Lesnar
    American professional wrestler (1977 - )
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  • Abraham Pais One of the absolute rules I learned in the war was, don't know anything you don't need to know, because if you ever get caught they will get it out of you.
    Source: To Save A Life : Stories of Holocaust Rescue (2000)
    Abraham Pais
    Dutch-American physicist (1918 - 2000)
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  • Henry Miller One of the few reasons why so few of us ever act, instead of reacting, is because we are continually stifling our deepest impulses.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • Bradley Whitford One of the most surreal moments in this election was after the third debate, when I heard a talking head say, Al Gore won on substance, on the issues. But you have to give the victory to Bush because he seems presidential.
    Bradley Whitford
    American actor and political activist (1959 - )
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  • Karl Menninger One of the most untruthful things possible, you know, is a collection of facts, because they can be made to appear so many different ways.
    Karl Menninger
    American psychiatrist ( - 1990)
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  • John Ruskin One of the prevailing sources of misery and crime is in the generally accepted assumption, that because things have been wrong a long time, it is impossible they will ever be right.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Callie Khouri One of the reasons I wanted to do a show about Nashville in Nashville was because when I lived here, the hardest thing to go out and hear was country music. Country was taking place inside the studio and it was an export.
    Callie Khouri
    American film and television (1957 - )
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  • Carlton Cuse One of the things that's, I think, hard in television is that there's a certain sameness to a lot of television because you're working in a very constricted box, and the box is defined by the amount of money you have to spend and the amount of time you have to get ready.
    Carlton Cuse
    American screenwriter, producer, and director (1959 - )
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  • Bee Wilson One thing I always make - and I'm sure this is partly to do with memory and yearning and because I've made it ever since my children were born - I make gingerbread every year. And it's partly just the perfume of the spices in the house, makes it smell like winter to me.
    Bee Wilson
    British food writer, journalist and historian
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  • Elie Wiesel Only one enemy is worse than despair: indifference. In every area of human creativity, indifference is the enemy; indifference of evil is worse than evil, because it is also sterile.
    Elie Wiesel
    Rumanian-born American Writer (1928 - 2016)
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  • Richard Rorty Open-mindedness should not be fostered because, as Scripture teaches, Truth is great and will prevail, nor because, as Milton suggests, Truth will always win in a free and open encounter. It should be fostered for its own sake.
    Richard Rorty
    American philosopher (1931 - 2007)
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  • Thomas Alva Edison Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
    Source: An Enemy Called Average (1990) by John L. Mason , p. 55.
    Thomas Alva Edison
    American inventor and founder of General Electric (1847 - 1931)
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  • Ernest Hemingway Or don't you like to write letters. I do because it's such a swell way to keep from working and yet feel you've done something.
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • Carol Bartz Organizations can get in the way of innovation, because if people are all bound up, and if they don't know if they get to make the decision or somebody else, and if they do, what happens to them, and so on and so forth.
    Carol Bartz
    American business executive (1948 - )
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  • Stephen R. Covey Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconcious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character…
    Stephen R. Covey
    American educator, author and businessman (1932 - 2012)
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  • Barney Ross Our duty was to try and find the Japanese fleet. We never did find the Japanese fleet and I am awfully glad, because they had attacked us there with six carriers, three battleships, 10 or 15 cruisers, and about 20 destroyers.
    Barney Ross
    American professional boxer (1909 - 1967)
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  • Mother Teresa Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them.
    Mother Teresa
    Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic nun and missionary (1910 - 1997)
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