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  • Barney Frank But when others suggested that the poor should not simply be the objects of these programs but also the subjects - that they should be actively involved in shaping the programs, making decisions about how to spend the money etc. - some of the previous supporters reconsidered.
    Barney Frank
    American politician (1940 - )
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  • Scott Reed Every suggested idea produces a corresponding physical reaction. Every idea constantly repeated ends by being engraved upon the brain, provoking the act which corresponds to that idea.
    Scott Reed
    American author
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  • Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt Freedom is but the possibility of a various and indefinite activity; while government, or the exercise of dominion, is a single, yet real activity. The longing for freedom, therefore, is at first only too frequently suggested by the deep-felt consciousness of its absence.
    Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt
    German statesman (1767 - 1835)
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  • Armistead Maupin I know that when Terry and I were together, 10 years ago, he did not appreciate it when people would ask him what it is like being partnered with a celebrity. Precisely because it suggested that he had no value.
    Armistead Maupin
    American writer (1944 - )
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  • Mary McCarthy In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if even suggested for ethical reasons.
    Mary McCarthy
    American author (1912 - 1989)
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  • Cyril Northcote Parkinson It is the essence of grantsmanship to persuade the Foundation executives that it was they who suggested the research project and that you were a belated convert, agreeing reluctantly to all they had proposed.
    Source: Parkinsons Laws in Medical Research, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, November 1962
    Cyril Northcote Parkinson
    British naval historian (1909 - 1993)
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  • Adam Weishaupt It was the full conviction of this, and of what could be done, if every man were placed in the office for which he was fitted by nature and a proper education, which first suggested to me the plan of Illumination.
    Adam Weishaupt
    German philosopher (1748 - 1830)
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  • Bjarne Stroustrup Legacy code often differs from its suggested alternative by actually working and scaling.
    Source: FAQ: What is legacy code?
    Bjarne Stroustrup
    Danish computer scientist (1950 - )
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  • Benigno Aquino III Let me make it clear: The Disbursement Allocation Program is not pork barrel. Of the DAP releases in 2011 and 2012, only nine percent was disbursed for projects suggested by legislators. The DAP is not theft. Theft is illegal.
    Benigno Aquino III
    Filipino politician (1960 - )
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  • Barbara W. Tuchman Modern historians have suggested that in his last years he (Richard II) was overtaken by mental disease, but that is only a modern view of the malfunction common to 14th century rulers: inability to inhibit impulse.
    Source: A Distant Mirror
    Barbara W. Tuchman
    American historian (1912 - 1989)
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  • Boman Irani Nothing was planned in my career. I just went with the flow and took everything that came to me. Selling potato chips was obvious, as it was a family business. When friends suggested I should try theatre, I gave it a shot. Then I did a lot of advertisements, and then movies happened.
    Boman Irani
    Indian actor (1959 - )
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  • Carrie Fisher So when I was 24, someone suggested to me that I was bipolar, and I thought that was ridiculous. I just thought he was trying to get out of treating me. But he was also responding to the chaotic nature of my life.
    Carrie Fisher
    American actress, writer and comedienne (1956 - 2016)
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  • Ben Shahn So, I was offered this job to come down there but first it was suggested that I take a trip around the country in the areas in which we worked to see what it's all about, and I tell you that was a revelation to me.
    Ben Shahn
    Lithuanian-born American artist (1898 - 1969)
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  • Sir Humphry Davy The most important of my discoveries has been suggested to me by my failures.
    Sir Humphry Davy
    British chemist and inventor
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  • Bela Lugosi There was no male vampire type in existence. Someone suggested an actor of the Continental School who could play any type, and mentioned me.
    Bela Lugosi
    Hungarian-American actor (1882 - 1956)
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  • Anton Chekhov When a lot of remedies are suggested for a disease, that means it can't be cured.
    Anton Chekhov
    Russian playwright and short story writer
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  • Raymond Chandler Your rat tail is all the fashion now. I prefer a bushy plume, carried straight up. You are Siamese and your ancestors lived in trees. Mine lived in palaces. It has been suggested to me that I am a bit of a snob. How true! I prefer to be.
    Raymond Chandler
    American writer (1888 - 1959)
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  • Bing Crosby [Suggested epitaph for himself:] He was an average guy who could carry a tune.
    Source: Newsweek, 24 October 1977
    Bing Crosby
    American singer, comedian and actor (1903 - 1977)
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