Quotes with -they

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  • Benjamin Watson Ninety years after slavery, blacks were still segregated from whites. They still had separate drinking fountains, separate restrooms, separate neighborhoods, and separate schools. They still were expected to sit at the back of the bus.
    Benjamin Watson
    American football player (1980 - )
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  • Buddy Hackett Ninety-nine percent is in the delivery. If you have the right voice and the right delivery, you're cocky enough, and you pound down on the punch line, you can say anything and make people laugh maybe three times before they realize you're not telling jokes.
    Buddy Hackett
    American actor and comedian (1924 - 2003)
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  • Bob Woodward Nixon had some large achievements in foreign affairs. They will be remembered. But a president probably gets remembered for one thing, and Watergate will head the Nixon list, I suspect.
    Bob Woodward
    American investigative journalist (1943 - )
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  • Aneurin Bevan No amount of cajolery, and no attempts at ethical or social seduction, can eradicate from my heart a deep burning hatred for the Tory Party. So far as I am concerned they are lower than vermin.
    Aneurin Bevan
    British Labor politician (1897 - 1960)
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  • Aneurin Bevan No attempt at ethical or social seduction can eradicate from my heart a deep burning hatred for the Tory Party. So far as I am concerned they are lower than vermin.
    Aneurin Bevan
    British Labor politician (1897 - 1960)
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  • Viktor Korchnoi No Chess Grandmaster is normal; they only differ in the extent of their madness.
    Viktor Korchnoi
    Russian chess player (1931 - 2016)
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  • Ben Elton No collection of people who are all waiting for the same thing are capable of holding a natural conversation. Even if the thing they are waiting for is only a taxi.
    Ben Elton
    British-Australian comedian, author, playwright, actor and director (1959 - )
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  • W. H. Auden No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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  • Oscar Wilde No great artist ever sees things as they really are, if he did he would cease to be an artist.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Oscar Wilde No man dies for what he knows to be true. Men die for what they want to be true, for what some terror in their hearts tells them is not true.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Henry Brooks Adams No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.
    Henry Brooks Adams
    American historian (1838 - 1918)
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  • John Steinbeck No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.
    John Steinbeck
    American author (1902 - 1968)
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  • David Seabury No man will work for your interests unless they are his.
    David Seabury
    American psychologist, author, and lecturer (1885 - 1960)
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  • W. Clement Stone No matter how carefully you plan your goals they will never be more than pipe dreams unless you pursue them with gusto.
    W. Clement Stone
    American businessman and author (1902 - 2002)
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  • Bart Stupak No matter what the president or anyone tried to do on health care, they never got the headlines, because the Gulf oil spill happened. It seemed like it sucked the wind out of the whole health care debate.
    Bart Stupak
    American politician (1952 - )
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  • Bruno Dumont No movie can claim to be a work of philosophy. They fulfill a totally different need in people.
    Bruno Dumont
    French film director and screenwriter (1958 - )
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero No one can be brave who considers pain to be the greatest evil in life, or can they be temperate who considers pleasure to be the highest good.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • E. M. Cioran No one can keep his grieves in their prime; they use themselves up.
    E. M. Cioran
    French-Romanian philosopher (1911 - 1995)
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  • Anna Held No one could possibly look all the time like my photographs. It is dreadfully hard to live up to them. They stare at me everywhere.
    Anna Held
    Polish-born stage performer and singer (1872 - 1918)
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  • Seneca No one is better born than another, unless they are born with better abilities and a more amiable disposition.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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