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  • Bill Clinton The problem with ideology is, if you've got an ideology, you've already got your mind made up. You know all the answers and that makes evidence irrelevant and arguments a waste of time. You tend to govern by assertion and attacks.
    Bill Clinton
    President of the US (1946 - )
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  • Adam Sandler The problem with me, as far as getting married and having a family, is that my comedy is so important to me. So I don't know if I'll ever be as good a dad as my dad.
    Adam Sandler
    American actor, comedian, and filmmaker (1966 - )
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  • Karl Marx The product of mental labor - science - always stands far below its value, because the labor-time necessary to reproduce it has no relation at all to the labor-time required for its original production.
    Karl Marx
    German economist and state philosopher (1818 - 1883)
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  • Atom Egoyan The programme has ended, something has finished, and he has a sense of something having finished its course, and then all of a sudden he turns away and this other thing has just finished its course, this other person.
    Atom Egoyan
    Armenian-Canadian stage and film director and writer (1960 - )
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  • Adam Smith The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals.
    Adam Smith
    Scottish Economist (1723 - 1790)
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  • John Adams The proposition that the people are the best keepers of their own liberties is not true. They are the worst conceivable, they are no keepers at all; they can neither judge, act, think, or will, as a political body.
    John Adams
    President of the USA (2nd) (1735 - 1826)
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  • Mark Twain The public is the only critic whose opinion is worth anything at all.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Betty Buckley The pure connecting factor is that those of us who describe ourselves as feminists want equal rights for all people.
    Betty Buckley
    American actress and singer (1947 - )
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  • Eleanor Roosevelt The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experiences.
    Eleanor Roosevelt
    American "First Lady" and columnist (1884 - 1962)
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  • Bob Brown The pursuit of eternity is no longer the prerogative of the gods - it is the business of us all, here and now.
    Bob Brown
    Australian politician, medical doctor and environmentalist (1944 - )
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  • Albert Einstein The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Voltaire The pursuit of what is true and the practice of what is good are the two most important objects of philosophy.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • Alexis Carrel The quality of life is more important than life itself.
    Alexis Carrel
    French surgeon, anatomist and biologist (1873 - 1944)
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  • Martin Luther King The quality, not the longevity, of one's life is what is important.
    Martin Luther King
    American preacher (1929 - 1968)
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  • Queen Victoria The Queen is most anxious to enlist everyone who can speak or write to join in checking this mad, wicked folly of ''Woman's Rights'' with all its attendant horrors on which her poor, feeble sex is bent, forgetting every sense of womanly feeling and propriety.
    Queen Victoria
    Queen of Great Britain (1819 - 1901)
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  • Elaine Dundy The question actors most often get asked is how they can bear saying the same things over and over again night after night, but God knows the answer to that is, don’t we all anyway; might as well get paid for it.
    The Dud Avocado (1958) I, 8
    Elaine Dundy
    American writer, actress and journalist (1921 - 2008)
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  • Albert J. Nock The question of who is right and who is wrong has seemed to me always too small to be worth a moment's thought, while the question of what is right and what is wrong has seemed all-important.
    Albert J. Nock
    American libertarian author (1870 - 1945)
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  • Sir Walter Scott The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. We cannot exist without mutual help. All therefore that need aid have a right to ask it from their fellow-men; and no one who has the power of granting can refuse it without guilt.
    Sir Walter Scott
    British writer and poet (1771 - 1832)
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  • Robert Alan The rain may be falling hard outside, But your smile makes it all alright. I'm so gland that you're my friend. I know our friendship will never end.
    Robert Alan
    American singer/songwriter and comic book creator (1971 - )
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  • Anita Loos The rarest of all things in American life is charm. We spend billions every year manufacturing fake charm that goes under the heading of public relations. Without it, America would be grim indeed.
    Anita Loos
    American writer, screenwriter (1889 - 1981)
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