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  • Calvin Coolidge They criticize me for harping on the obvious; if all the folks in the United States would do the few simple things they know they ought to do, most of our big problems would take care of themselves.
    Calvin Coolidge
    American president (1872 - 1933)
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  • Alan Dundes They do not merely collect texts; they must also gather data about the context and the informant and, above all, write an analysis of the items based upon the course readings and lecture material on folklore theory and method.
    Alan Dundes
    American folklorist
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  • Raymond Chandler They don't want you until you have made a name, and by the time you have made a name, you have developed some kind of talent they can't use. All they will do is spoil it, if you let them.
    Raymond Chandler
    American writer (1888 - 1959)
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  • Joe E. Lewis They had me on the operating table all day. They looked into my stomach, my gall bladder, they examined everything inside of me. Know what they decided? I need glasses.
    Joe E. Lewis
    American writer
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  • Bayard Taylor They sang of love and not of fame; Forgot was Britain's glory; Each heart recalled a different name, But all sang Annie Laurie.
    Bayard Taylor
    American poet, travel author, and diplomat (1825 - 1878)
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  • Bayard Taylor They sang of love, and not of fame;
    Forgot was Britain's glory;
    Each heart recalled a different name,
    But all sang Annie Lawrie.
    The Song of the Camp
    Bayard Taylor
    American poet, travel author, and diplomat (1825 - 1878)
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  • A. E. Housman They say my verse is sad: no wonder.
    Its narrow measure spans
    Rue for eternity, and sorrow
    Not mine, but man's.

    This is for all ill-treated fellows
    Unborn and unbegot,
    For them to read when they're in trouble
    And I am not.
    More Poems (1936)
    A. E. Housman
    British poet (1859 - 1936)
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  • Ernest Hemingway They say the seeds of what we will do are in all of us, but it always seemed to me that in those who make jokes in life the seeds are covered with better soil and with a higher grade of manure.
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • Ogden Nash They take the paper and they read the headlines. So they've heard of unemployment and they've heard of bread-lines. And they philanthropically cure them all by getting up a costume charity ball.
    Ogden Nash
    American poet (1902 - 1971)
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  • Carl Hubbell They talk about those All-Star Games being exhibition affairs, and maybe they are, but I've seen very few players in my life who didn't want to win, no matter whom they were playing or what for.
    Carl Hubbell
    American baseball player (1903 - )
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  • Joseph Conrad They talk of a man betraying his country, his friends, his sweetheart. There must be a moral bond first. All a man can betray is his conscience.
    Joseph Conrad
    In Poland born English writer (1857 - 1924)
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  • John Greenleaf Whittier They tell me, Lucy, thou art dead, that all of thee we loved and cherished has with thy summer roses perished; and left, as its young beauty fled, an ashen memory in its stead.
    John Greenleaf Whittier
    American poet and writer (1807 - 1892)
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  • John Selden They that are against superstition oftentimes run into it of the wrong side. If I wear all colors but black, then I am superstitious in not wearing black.
    John Selden
    British Jurist, Statesman (1584 - 1654)
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  • David Herbert Lawrence They were evidently small men, all wind and quibbles, flinging out their chuffy grain to us with far less interest than a farm-wife feels as she scatters corn to her fowls.
    David Herbert Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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  • Barry Pepper They were so exhausted and seasick and all they could do was crawl up those beaches. And thousands of them lay dead in no time at all. It's unthinkable.
    Barry Pepper
    Canadian-American actor (1950 - )
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  • Louise Erdrich They were so strong in their beliefs that there came a time when it hardly mattered what exactly those beliefs were; they all fused into a single stubbornness.
    Louise Erdrich
    American author (1954 - )
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  • Bernard Malamud They were together now in the vault under the tombstone; their ashes were, with the remains of those of their children who were not buried elsewhere, although all their names were incised on the stone.
    Bernard Malamud
    American novelist (1914 - 1986)
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  • Anthony Trollope They who do not understand that a man may be brought to hope that which of all things is the most grievous to him, have not observed with sufficient closeness the perversity of the human mind.
    Anthony Trollope
    British writer (1815 - 1882)
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  • Bobby Sands They won't break me because the desire for freedom, and the freedom of the Irish people, is in my heart. The day will dawn when all the people of Ireland will have the desire for freedom to show. It is then that we will see the rising of the moon.
    Bobby Sands: Writings from Prison
    Bobby Sands
    Irish activist and IRA member (1954 - 1981)
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  • Afrika Bambaataa They're keeping friction going between people from the East and the West. One thing we all got in common is your color, which is Black and Latino, which is our family.
    Afrika Bambaataa
    American disc jockey, rapper, songwriter and producer (1957 - )
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