Quotes with ago-they

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  • Andreas Capellanus Even if the whole earth and sea were turned to gold, they could hardly satisfy the avarice of a woman... You can more easily scratch a diamond with your fingernail than you can by any human ingenuity get a woman to consent to giving any of her savings.
    Andreas Capellanus
    French writer (1150 - 1220)
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  • Arthur Bryant Even in November 1938, after five years of anti-Semitic legislation and persecution, they still owned, according to the Times correspondent in Berlin, something like a third of the real property in the Reich.
    Arthur Bryant
    English historian, columnist for The Illustrated London News and man (1899 - 1985)
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  • Carter G. Woodson Even schools for Negroes, then, are places where they must be convinced of their inferiority.
    Carter G. Woodson
    American historian, author and journalist (1875 - 1950)
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  • Balthazar Getty Even the great bad guys in cinema history, they're likable.
    Balthazar Getty
    American actor and musician (1975 - )
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  • Benjamin Walker Even the greatest actors have had dry spells where they've wondered if they were going to work again.
    Benjamin Walker
    American actor and stand-up comedian (1982 - )
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  • Camille Paglia Even the most morbid of the rape ranters have a childlike faith in the perfectibility of the universe, which they see as blighted solely by nasty men. They simplistically project outward onto a mythical patriarchy their own inner conflicts and moral ambiguities.
    Vamps and Tramps (1994)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Friedrich von Schiller Even the weak become strong when they are united.
    Friedrich von Schiller
    German poet and playwright (1759 - 1805)
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  • Bruce Chatwin Even today, when an Aboriginal mother notices the first stirrings of speech in her child, she lets it handle the things of that particular country: leaves, fruit, insects and so forth. We give our children guns and computer games, Wendy said. They gave their children the land.
    The Songlines p. 270
    Bruce Chatwin
    English travel writer, novelist and journalist (1940 - 1989)
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  • Barack Obama Even when folks are hitting you over the head, you can't stop marching. Even when they're turning the hoses on you, you can't stop.
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Aristotle Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Caroline Wozniacki Even when my opponent hits a very good shot, I don't just want to get it back. I want to get it back so they have difficulty. And then I can control the point.
    Caroline Wozniacki
    Danish tennis player (1990 - )
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  • Bertrand Russell Even when the experts all agree, they may well be mistaken.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Amelia Barr Events that are predestined require but little management. They manage themselves. They slip into place while we sleep, and suddenly we are aware that the thing we fear to attempt, is already accomplished.
    Amelia Barr
    British novelist and teacher (1831 - 1919)
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  • Barry Malzberg Events, I say to the Captain, events control our lives, although we have no understanding of them nor do they have any motivation. Everything is blind chance, happenstance, occurrence; in an infinite universe anything can happen. After the fact we find reasons.
    Beyond Apollo Ch. 60
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  • Anne Tyler Ever consider what pets must think of us? I mean, here we come back from a grocery store with the most amazing haul - chicken, pork, half a cow. They must think we're the greatest hunters on earth!
    Anne Tyler
    American novelist and short story writer (1941 - )
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  • Ivern Ball Ever notice that people never say 'It's only a game' when they're winning?
    Ivern Ball
    American author (1926 - 1992)
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  • Bella Freud Ever since I was little, I really loved boyish clothes - I had a real obsession with strict clothes, like uniforms. They really got me going.
    Bella Freud
    British fashion designer (1961 - )
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  • Thomas Szasz Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one's self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily; and why older persons, especially if vain or important, cannot learn at all.
    Thomas Szasz
    American psychiatrist (1920 - 2012)
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  • Bo Bennett Every day, people settle for less than they deserve. They are only partially living or at best living a partial life. Every human being has the potential for greatness.
    Bo Bennett
    American author (1972 - )
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  • Bruce Springsteen Every good writer or filmmaker has something eating at them, right? That they can't quite get off their back . And so your job is to make your audience care about your obsessions.
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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