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  • Carol Ann Duffy Like the sand and the oyster, it's a creative irritant. In each poem, I'm trying to reveal a truth, so it can't have a fictional beginning.
    Carol Ann Duffy
    British poet and playwright (1955 - )
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  • Ban Ki-moon Like the United Nations, there is something inspirational about New York as a great melting pot of different cultures and traditions. And if this is the city that never sleeps, the United Nations works tirelessly, around the clock around the world.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Adam Ferguson Like the winds that we come we know not whence and blow whither soever they list, the forces of society are derived from an obscure and distant origin. They arise before the date of philosophy, from the instincts, not the speculations of men.
    Adam Ferguson
    Scottish philosopher and historian (1723 - 1816)
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  • Elizabeth Janeway Like their personal lives, women's history is fragmented, interrupted; a shadow history of human beings whose existence has been shaped by the efforts and the demands of others.
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  • Oscar Wilde Like two doomed ships that pass in storm we had crossed each other's way: but we made no sign, we said no word, we had no word to say.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Walter Benjamin Like ultraviolet rays memory shows to each man in the book of life a script that invisibly and prophetically glosses the text.
    Walter Benjamin
    German philosopher (1892 - 1940)
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  • Juvenal Like warmed-up cabbage served at each repast, The repetition kills the wretch at last.
    Juvenal
    Roman poet
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  • Cyril Connolly Like water, we are truest to our nature in repose.
    Cyril Connolly
    British criticus (1903 - 1974)
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  • Paul Harvey Like what you do, if you don't like it, do something else.
    Paul Harvey
    American radio broadcaster (1918 - 2009)
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  • Alicia Silverstone Like when I'm in the bathroom looking at my toilet paper, I'm like 'Wow! That's toilet paper?' I don't know if we appreciate how much we have.
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  • Balthazar Getty Like, they know that I have a habit of rubbing my earlobes, I've been doing it since I was two.
    Balthazar Getty
    American actor and musician (1975 - )
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  • Bethany Hamilton Like, with one arm I know I can surf, but competitive surfing can be really frustrating, and sometimes you don't do as well as you want to. It can be discouraging at times. But whenever I do get frustrated, I just focus on God.
    Bethany Hamilton
    American professional surfer (1990 - )
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  • Bai Ling Like, you can find your dream, if you firmly believe. You have to have the innocence, and you have to have the daringness to trust.
    Bai Ling
    Chinese-American actress (1966 - )
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  • Bjorn Lomborg Listen, global warming is a real problem, but it' s not the end of the world. A 30-centimetre sea level rise is just not going to bring the world to a standstill, just like it didn't over the last 150 years.
    Bjorn Lomborg
    Danish author (1965 - )
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  • Avi Arad Listen, people like Brian Bendis did great things for comic readers, great things for comic readers.
    Avi Arad
    Israeli-American businessman (1948 - )
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  • Milan Kundera Listening to a news broadcast is like smoking a cigarette and crushing the butt in the ashtray.
    Milan Kundera
    Tsjech writer and criticus (1929 - 2023)
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  • Carmen Agra Deedy Listening to others does not mean you should sound like them; find your own voice by telling stories as authentically as possible.
    Carmen Agra Deedy
    American author of children’s literature
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  • Oriana Fallaci Listening to someone talk isn't at all like listening to their words played over on a machine. What you hear when you have a face before you is never what you hear when you have before you a winding tape.
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  • W. H. Auden Literary confessors are contemptible, like beggars who exhibit their sores for money, but not so contemptible as the public that buys their books.
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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  • Bertolt Brecht Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods. Realist writing, of which history offers many widely varying examples, is likewise conditioned by the question of how, when and for what class it is made use of.
    Bertolt Brecht
    German - Austrian writer (1898 - 1956)
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