Quotes with --because

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  • Mark Twain Quitting smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I've done it thousands of times.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Billy Collins Radio is such a perfect medium for the transmission of poetry, primarily because there just is the voice, there's no visual distraction.
    Billy Collins
    American poet (1941 - )
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  • Malcolm X Read absolutely everything you get your hands on because you'll never know where you'll get an idea from.
    Malcolm X
    American activist (1925 - 1965)
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  • Ben Okri Reading is an act of civilization; it's one of the greatest acts of civilization because it takes the free raw material of the mind and builds castles of possibilities.
    Ben Okri
    Nigerian poet and novelist (1959 - )
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  • Anita Brookner Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.
    Anita Brookner
    British Writer (1928 - 2016)
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  • Allan Bloom Reason transformed into prejudice is the worst form of prejudice, because reason is the only instrument for liberation from prejudice.
    Allan Bloom
    American writer (1930 - 1992)
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  • Beth Ditto Reclaiming the word 'fat' was the most empowering step in my progress. I stopped using it for insult or degradation and instead replaced it with truth, because the truth is that I am fat, and that's ok. So now when someone calls me fat, I agree, whereas before I would get embarrassed and emotional.
    Beth Ditto
    American singer-songwriter and actress (1981 - )
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  • John Galsworthy Religion was nearly dead because there was no longer real belief in future life; but something was struggling to take its place - service - social service - the ants creed, the bees creed.
    John Galsworthy
    British writer, playwright (1867 - 1933)
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  • Alfred P. Sloan Report, report, report. Dig, dig, dig. Think, think, think. Don't stop being a reporter because you've become a columnist.
    Alfred P. Sloan
    American businessman (1875 - 1966)
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  • Austin O'Malley Revenge is often like biting a dog because the dog bit you.
    Austin O'Malley
    American writer, ophthalmologist and a professor of English literatur (1858 - 1932)
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  • Bradley Whitford Richard Schiff is a really good baseball player. It's surprising because he looks exhausted.
    Bradley Whitford
    American actor and political activist (1959 - )
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  • Charles Lamb Riches are chiefly good because they give us time.
    Charles Lamb
    English essayist (1775 - 1834)
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  • Blanche Lincoln Right and wrong becomes more difficult for each of us as we grow older, because the older we get the more we know personally about our own human frailties.
    Blanche Lincoln
    American politician and lawyer (1960 - )
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  • Bokeem Woodbine Right around 2004 when 'Ray' came out, I made a conscious decision to be more discerning because I thought to myself, 'After something like this, I really have to try to be strong enough to turn stuff down.'
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  • Atom Egoyan Right now my career is totally schizophrenic, because when an American production like Hitchcock Presents asks to see my work I would never dream of showing them my independent films.
    Atom Egoyan
    Armenian-Canadian stage and film director and writer (1960 - )
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  • Bart Stupak Right-to-life groups won't fund us because we're Democrats.
    Bart Stupak
    American politician (1952 - )
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  • Boutros Boutros-Ghali Rwanda was considered a second-class operation; because it was a small country, we had been able to maintain a kind of status quo. They were negotiating, they'd accepted the new peace project, so we were under the impression that everything would be solved easily.
    Boutros Boutros-Ghali
    Egyptian politician and diplomat (1922 - 2016)
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  • Brett Hoebel Salt is one of the flavors that makes food taste good - salt, sugar and fat. So it's a natural thing for all chefs and cooks to add salt, because it enhances the flavor of the food. If you go out to eat, I guarantee you're going to be eating a lot of salted foods that you are going to have no idea.
    Brett Hoebel
    American personal trainer
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  • Ben Nicholson Satire is fascinating stuff. It's deadly serious, and when politics begin to break down, there is a drift towards satire, because it's the only thing that makes any sense.
    Ben Nicholson
    English painter (1894 - 1982)
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  • Benjamin Franklin Savages we call them because their manners differ from ours.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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