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  • Ben Katchor There's something exciting about weekly strips in that you're following the way the story reveals itself to the writer week by week. All the possible directions it could have taken are there; it's a kind of participatory reading that I think books discourage.
    Ben Katchor
    American cartoonist and illustrator (1951 - )
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  • Ben Platt There's something to be said for any boy growing up among lots of other boys who like to play basketball and football, while all I wanted to do was put on musicals. Mentally, I was always in my own world.
    Ben Platt
    American actor, singer, and songwriter (1993 - )
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  • Benjamin Tucker Therefore coercion of the non-invasive, when justifiable at all, is to be justified on the ground that it secures, not a minimum of ' invasion, but a minimum of pain.
    Benjamin Tucker
    American anarchist and socialist (1854 - 1939)
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  • Brian P. Cleary These are books that want to be read out loud. These are books kids share with each other, and I think that's important.
    Brian P. Cleary
    American humorist and poet (1959 - )
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  • Walter Benjamin These are days when no one should rely unduly on his ''competence.'' Strength lies in improvisation. All the decisive blows are struck left-handed.
    Walter Benjamin
    German philosopher (1892 - 1940)
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  • Barry Manilow These days, with 'American Idol' and all the other reality shows, young people become famous overnight, and that can be very difficult to handle, the way photographers follow you around and study your every move.
    Barry Manilow
    American singer-songwriter, producer and actor (1943 - )
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  • Bobby Scott These funds will ensure that ports will be able to pay for adequate security measures to protect all Americans against terrorist attacks from our seaports.
    Bobby Scott
    American politician (1947 - )
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  • Bill Luther These issues are so important. I just felt the best thing to do right now is contribute and go forward.
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  • Abraham Lincoln These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche These people abstain, it is true: but the bitch Sensuality glares enviously out of all they do.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Butch Trucks These people that dress up in spandex trousers with all the extraordinary makeup - I find it incredibly repulsive, always have.
    Butch Trucks
    American musician (1947 - 2017)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson These times of ours are serious and full of calamity, but all times are essentially alike. As soon as there is life there is danger.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Caroline Dhavernas These two girls start wanting the same thing because in this neighborhood, they know all the guys so well. It's a small town and all the guys are just really boring to them.
    Caroline Dhavernas
    Canadian actress (1978 - )
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  • Plato These, then, will be some of the features of democracy... it will be, in all likelihood, an agreeable, lawless, parti-colored commonwealth, dealing with all alike on a footing of equality, whether they be really equal or not.
    Plato
    Greek philosopher (427 - 347)
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  • Carl Sagan They (i. e., the Pythagoreans) did not advocate the free confrontation of conflicting points of view. Instead, like all orthodox religions, they practised a rigidity that prevented them from correcting their errors.
    Cosmos (1980)
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Henry Vaughan They are all gone into the world of light, and I alone sit lingering here.
    Henry Vaughan
    Welsh poet, author, translator and physician (1621 - 1695)
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  • Winston Churchill They are decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful to be impotent.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Adam Smith They are led by an invisible hand to make nearly the same distribution of the necessaries of life, which would have been made, had the earth been divided into equal portions among all its inhabitants, and thus without intending it, without knowing it, advance the interest of the society, and afford means to the multiplication of the species.
    The Theory of Moral Sentiments Part IV (1759)
    Adam Smith
    Scottish Economist (1723 - 1790)
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  • Virgil They attack the one man with their hate and their shower of weapons. But he is like some rock which stretches into the vast sea and which, exposed to the fury of the winds and beaten against by the waves, endures all the violence
    Virgil
    Roman poet (70 - 19)
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  • Cass Sunstein They call soccer the beautiful game, but if I had to identify just one sport to show members of some alien species what the human race is all about, I'd nominate squash.
    Cass Sunstein
    American legal scholar (1954 - )
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