Quotes with -they

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  • Alexis de Tocqueville As one digs deeper into the national character of the Americans, one sees that they have sought the value of everything in this world only in the answer to this single question: how much money will it bring in?
    Alexis de Tocqueville
    French aristocrat, political philosopher and sociologist (1805 - 1859)
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  • Angela Merkel As politicians we have to react to the fact that many people do not feel that they can relate to the EU.
    Angela Merkel
    German politician and chancellor (1954 - )
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  • Cal Thomas As pressure grows to ease the financial burden on social security, pressure will also grow to eliminate the elderly and infirm to 'free up' more money for the 'fit' and those who contribute more than they take from society.
    Cal Thomas
    American columnist and author (1942 - )
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  • Billy Connolly As soon as I got successful, the Scottish press started picking on me. It's something they reserve just for me.
    Billy Connolly
    Scottish stand-up comedian, musician, actor (1942 - )
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  • Adam Smith As soon as the land of any country has all become private property, the landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed, and demand a rent even for its natural produce.
    Adam Smith
    Scottish Economist (1723 - 1790)
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  • Bob Beauprez As state and federal lawmakers debate the country's energy policies and Colorado's role in the ever-expanding energy economy, let's hope they remember that unnecessary regulations stifle growth while doing nothing for public safety or health.
    Bob Beauprez
    American politician and member (1948 - )
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  • Carl Gustav Jung As the animus is partial to argument, he can best be seen at work in disputes where both parties know they are right. Men can argue in a very womanish way, too, when they are anima - possessed and have thus been transformed into the animus of their own anima.
    Aion (1951)
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Sallust As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.
    Sallust
    Roman historian (86 - 34)
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  • Bianca Marroquin As the years went by, working on Broadway, I started seeing that I had a fan base and that they were mostly young girls. They are looking for someone that they can look up to, that they see as a role model. And I don't take that lightly; it's a big responsibility.
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  • Albert Camus As usual I finish the day before the sea, sumptuous this evening beneath the moon, which writes Arab symbols with phosphorescent streaks on the slow swells. There is no end to the sky and the waters. How well they accompany sadness!
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Buzz Aldrin As we reflect back upon the tragic loss of Challenger and her brave crew of heroes who were aboard that fateful day, I am reminded that they truly represented the best of us, as they climbed aloft on a plume of propellant gasses, reaching for the stars, to inspire us who were Earthbound.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • Jean Paul As winter strips the leaves from around us, so that we may see the distant regions they formerly concealed, so old age takes away our enjoyments only to enlarge the prospect of the coming eternity.
    Jean Paul
    German poet (ps. by Johann P.F. Richter) (1763 - 1825)
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  • Bernard Mandeville Ashamed of the many frailties they feel within, all men endeavor to hide themselves, their ugly nakedness, from each other, and wrapping up the true motives of their hearts in the specious cloak of sociableness, and their concern for the public good, they are in hopes of concealing their filthy appetites and the deformity of their desires.
    Bernard Mandeville
    British writer and artist (1670 - 1733)
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  • B. D. Wong Asian people are very practical and come from a conservative world. The parents want their kids to be doctors and lawyers. There are casting calls for Asian children, but once the parents find out the children might miss school, they're opposed to it.
    B. D. Wong
    American actor (1960 - )
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  • Joseph Joubert Ask the young. They know everything.
    Joseph Joubert
    French writer (1754 - 1824)
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  • Buzz Aldrin Astronauts are not superhuman. They lead ordinary lives and have varied personalities.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • Ann Landers At every party there are two kinds of people - those who want to go home and those who don't. The trouble is, they are usually married to each other.
    Ann Landers
    American columnist (1918 - 2002)
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  • Billy Sunday At Kansas City, Kansas, before the saloons were closed, they were getting ready to build an addition to the jail. Now the doors swing idly on the hinges and there is nobody to lock in the jails.
    As quoted in ""Billy" Sunday, the man and his message: with his own words which have won thousands for Christ" by William Thomas Ellis
    Billy Sunday
    American athlete and evangelist (1862 - 1935)
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  • Caroline Dhavernas At least, I'm very happy that it's going out on DVD because if it wasn't for the fans who signed this petition and were really ongoing about how they loved it, we wouldn't see this DVD right now.
    Caroline Dhavernas
    Canadian actress (1978 - )
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  • Jean Baudrillard At male strip shows, it is still the women that we watch, the audience of women and their eager faces. They are more obscene than if they were dancing naked themselves.
    Jean Baudrillard
    French sociologist and philosopher. (1929 - 2007)
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