Quotes with 4-and-a-half

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  • Ouida A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they run.
    Ouida
    English novelist, pseudonym of Maria Louise Ramé (1839 - 1908)
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  • James I of England A custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black, stinking fume thereof nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless.
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  • W. H. Auden A daydream is a meal at which images are eaten. Some of us are gourmets, some gourmands, and a good many take their images precooked out of a can and swallow them down whole, absent-mindedly and with little relish.
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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  • Bo Bennett A dead end can never be a one way street; you can always turn around and take another road.
    Bo Bennett
    American author (1972 - )
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  • Ben Lovett A Deap Vally renaissance is going to begin next year and will be our focus for the start of 2013. They will blow the cobwebs off a music scene that has become just a little bit stale.
    Ben Lovett
    American recording artist, film composer, songwriter and producer (1978 - )
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  • Brene Brown A deep sense of love and belonging is an irreducible need of all people. We are biologically, cognitively, physically, and spiritually wired to love, to be loved, and to belong. When those needs are not met, we don't function as we were meant to. We break. We fall apart. We numb. We ache. We hurt others. We get sick.
    Brene Brown
    American professor, lecturer, author (1965 - )
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  • Ben Nelson A democratic and stable Iraq and Afghanistan are essential to our broader efforts to make no place safe for terrorists and to win the War on Terrorism.
    Ben Nelson
    American politician, businessman and lawyer (1941 - )
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  • Richard Buckminster Fuller A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.
    Your Private Sky: Discourse (2001)
    Richard Buckminster Fuller
    American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, and inventor (1895 - 1983)
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  • John Adams A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man.
    John Adams
    President of the USA (2nd) (1735 - 1826)
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  • Kofi Annan A developed country is one that allows all its citizens to enjoy a free and healthy life in a safe environment.
    Kofi Annan
    Ghanaian diplomat (1938 - 2018)
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  • James Baldwin A devotion to humanity is... too easily equated with a devotion to a Cause, and Causes, as we know, are notoriously bloodthirsty.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Abdelaziz Bouteflika A dialogue among civilizations can be seen as a dialogue between the individual and the universal.
    Abdelaziz Bouteflika
    Algerian politician (1937 - )
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  • Will Rogers A difference of opinion is what makes horse racing and missionaries.
    Will Rogers
    American actor and humorist (1879 - 1935)
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  • Billy Wilder A director must be a policeman, a midwife, a psychoanalyst, a sycophant and a bastard.
    Billy Wilder
    Austrian-American filmmaker, screenwriter, producer and artist (1906 - 2002)
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  • Edmund Burke A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • Bill Viola A doctor once told me that with crying you aren't sure what its derivation is. If someone comes at you with a knife, you don't cry: you scream, you try to run. When it's over and you're OK, that's when you cry.
    Bill Viola
    American video artist (1951 - )
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  • John Calvin A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.
    John Calvin
    French theologian, pastor and reformer (1509 - 1564)
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  • Robert Benchley A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down.
    Robert Benchley
    American humorist, criticus (1889 - 1945)
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  • Aesop A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then know how to meet him.
    Aesop
    Greek fabulist and story teller (620 - 564)
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  • Arthur Keith A drunkard is one thing, and a temperate man is quite another.
    Arthur Keith
    Scottish anatomist and anthropologist (1866 - 1952)
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