Quotes with -they

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  • Ana Castillo For things to have value in man's world, they are given the role of commodities. Among man's oldest and most constant commodity is woman.
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  • Joseph Rudyard Kipling For undemocratic reasons and for motives not of State, they arrive at their conclusions - largely inarticulate. Being void of self-expression they confide their views to none; but sometimes in a smoking room, one learns why things were done.
    Joseph Rudyard Kipling
    English writer (1865 - 1936)
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  • Bettie Page For years I had my hair parted down the middle in a ponytail, tucked down around the sides... Well, I went and cut the bangs, and I've been wearing them ever since. They say it's my trademark.
    Bettie Page
    American model (1923 - 2008)
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  • Butch Otter For years now I have been talking about personal responsibility and accountability, both in our private lives and in the halls of government. Those are important principles here in Idaho, and they will form the basis of this administration.
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  • Rita Mae Brown For you to be successful, sacrifices must be made. It's better that they are made by others but failing that, you'll have to make them yourself.
    Rita Mae Brown
    American writer, activist, and feminist (1944 - )
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  • William Cowper Forced from home, and all its pleasures, afric coast I left forlorn; to increase a stranger's treasures, o the raging billows borne. Men from England bought and sold me, paid my price in paltry gold; but, though theirs they have enroll'd me, minds are never to be sold.
    William Cowper
    English poet (1731 - 1800)
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  • Robert Frost Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they can talk sense.
    Robert Frost
    American poet (1874 - 1963)
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  • Euripides Forgive, son; men are men; they needs must err.
    Euripides
    Greek tragedian and poet (480 - 406)
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  • Bill Camp Fortunately, I get asked to play - regardless of how big or small they are - some really interesting people who are part of great stories. So, as an actor, there's really nothing better.
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  • Douglas Jerrold Fortunes made in no time are like shirts made in no time; it's ten to one if they hang long together.
    Douglas Jerrold
    English journalist and playwright (1803 - 1857)
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  • A. Lou Vickery Four short words sum up what has lifted most successful individuals above the crowd: a little bit more. They did all that was expected of them and a little bit more.
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  • Adam Michnik France can never accept that it is no longer a dominating power in the world of culture. This is true both of the French right and the French left. They keep thinking that Americans are primitive cowboys or farmers who do not understand anything.
    Adam Michnik
    Polish historian, essayist and dissident (1946 - )
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  • Arthur Hays Sulzberger Free nations with different histories, economies and a vast amount of stubborn pride will never achieve complete agreement, even when they desire the same objectives.
    Arthur Hays Sulzberger
    American newspaper publisher (1891 - 1968)
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  • Carl Sandburg Freedom is baffling:
    men having it often
    know not they have it
    till it is gone and
    they no longer have it.
    Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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  • George Orwell Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
    The Freedom of the Press (1972)
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Beth Grant Frequently over the years, people have thought that they know me. Every character actor has this story, I'm sure. It goes like this: 'Um, do you play soccer?' 'Did you go to such and such church?' 'I knew you when you were with so and so... ' Then I go, 'Well, sorry...' and then they say, 'Wait a minute. Are you an actor?'
    Beth Grant
    American actress (1949 - )
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  • Charles Haddon Spurgeon Friendship is one of the sweetest joys of life. Many might have failed beneath the bitterness of their trial had they not found a friend.
    Charles Haddon Spurgeon
    English Baptist preacher (1834 - 1892)
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  • William Somerset Maugham From the earliest times the old have rubbed it into the young that they are wiser than they, and before the young had discovered what nonsense this was they were old too, and it profited them to carry on the imposture.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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  • Margot Asquith From the happy expression on their faces you might have supposed that they welcomed the war. I have met with men who loved stamps, and stones, and snakes, but I could not imagine any man loving war.
    Margot Asquith
    Anglo-Scottish socialite, author, and wit (1864 - 1945)
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  • Cass Sunstein From the standpoint of democratic legitimacy, it's a problem if half the electorate, or close to it, declines to vote, not least because they may not feel much of a stake in the whole process.
    Cass Sunstein
    American legal scholar (1954 - )
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