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  • Bill Janklow The deal we made was that if we would change our law to invite them to come to South Dakota - that's what they wanted, the invitation - if we would change our law to invite them to come to South Dakota, he would guarantee South Dakota 400 Citibank jobs.
    Bill Janklow
    American politician (1939 - 2012)
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  • Alice Munro The deep, personal material of the latter half of your life is your children. You can write about your parents when they're gone, but your children are still going to be here, and you're going to want them to come and visit you in the nursing home.
    Alice Munro
    Canadian short story writer (1931 - )
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  • Billy Sunday The Democratic party of Florida has put a temperance plank in its platform and the Republican party of every state would nail that plank in their platform if they thought it would carry the election.
    Billy Sunday, the Man and His Message: With His Own Words which Have Won Thousands for Christ (1917)
    Billy Sunday
    American athlete and evangelist (1862 - 1935)
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  • Leon Trotsky The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only then do they have to fall back on their reserves.
    Leon Trotsky
    Russian revolutionary and writer (1879 - 1940)
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  • Sir Roger L'Estrange The devil helps his servants for a season; but when they get into a pinch; he leaves them in the lurch.
    Sir Roger L'Estrange
    English journalist (1616 - 1702)
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  • Carroll Quigley The difference between a stable society and an unstable one is that the restraints in an unstable one are external. In a stable society government ultimately becomes unnecessary; the restraints on people's actions are internal, they're self-disciplined...
    Oscar Iden Lecture Series, Lecture 3: The State of Individuals (1976)
    Carroll Quigley
    American historian and theorist (1910 - 1977)
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  • Bruce Dern The difference between my generation of actors and their generation is that they were bigger than life. We are not bigger than life.
    Bruce Dern
    American actor (1936 - )
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  • Berenice Bejo The difference between the extras here and in France is the French extras read books. Actually, they hide the book and pretend that they're acting. Here, you can see everybody wants his break.
    Berenice Bejo
    French-Argentine actress (1976 - )
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  • Pete Sampras The difference of great players is at a certain point in a match they raise their level of play and maintain it. Lesser players play great for a set, but then less.
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  • John Stuart Mill The disease which inflicts bureaucracy and what they usually die from is routine.
    John Stuart Mill
    English economist (1806 - 1873)
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  • Albert Einstein The distinctions separating the social classes are false; in the last analysis they rest on force.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Bob Graham The doctors have given me a green light. They have said that my heart is significantly more efficient today than it was four months ago. And I am anxious to be the next president of the United States.
    Bob Graham
    American politician and author (1936 - )
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  • Bill Griffith The down side of Americans being obsessed with pop culture is that they kind of like it light.
    Bill Griffith
    American cartoonist (1944 - )
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  • Carole King The downside of videos is that it will put my vision in front of other people, so they might not get the chance to create their own.
    Carole King
    American singer-songwriter (1942 - )
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  • Charles Caleb Colton The drafts which true genius draws upon posterity, although they may not always be honored so soon as they are due, are sure to be paid with compound interest in the end.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Boris Johnson The dreadful truth is that when people come to see their MP, they have run out of better ideas.
    Whats wrong with 40 Liverpool Road?, Daily Telegraph, 18 September 2003, p. 24.
    Boris Johnson
    British politician and author (1964 - )
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  • John Greenleaf Whittier The dreariest spot in all the land to Death they set apart; with scanty grace from Nature's hand, and none from that of Art.
    John Greenleaf Whittier
    American poet and writer (1807 - 1892)
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  • M. Beerbohm The dullard's envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion that they will come to a bad end.
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  • Carl Sagan The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot.
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Brad Falchuk The East Coast, and certainly Boston, has a provincial quality to it that makes it harder to bust out and move up. Try to be too different and they'll pull you down.
    Brad Falchuk
    American television writer, director, and producer (1971 - )
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