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  • Edward Young Procrastination is the thief of time: Year after year it steals, till all are fled, and to the mercies of a moment leaves The vast concerns of an eternal scene.
    Edward Young
    British poet (1683 - 1765)
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  • Brion James Producing is nothing more than bringing all the elements together, connecting people.
    Brion James
    American actor (1945 - 1999)
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  • Raoul Vaneigem Production and consumption are the nipples of modern society. Thus suckled, humanity grows in strength and beauty; rising standard of living, all modern conveniences, distractions of all kinds, culture for all, the comfort of your dreams.
    Raoul Vaneigem
    Belgian philosopher (1934 - )
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  • Bernie Sanders Progressive activists are angry that a Medicare-for-all single-payer approach was totally ignored during the health care debate.
    Bernie Sanders
    American politician (1941 - )
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  • Arthur Cayley Projective geometry is all geometry.
    Arthur Cayley
    British mathematician (1821 - 1895)
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  • Elizabeth Drew Propaganda has a bad name, but its root meaning is simply to disseminate through a medium, and all writing therefore is propaganda for something. It's a seeding of the self in the consciousness of others.
    Elizabeth Drew
    American political journalist and author (1935 - )
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  • W. H. Auden Proper names are poetry in the raw. Like all poetry they are untranslatable.
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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  • Bethany McLean Proponents of privatization argued that cities and states needed private capital to fund all the upgrades that our decaying infrastructure so desperately needed.
    Bethany McLean
    American journalist (1970 - )
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  • Bernard of Clairvaux Prostrate, see Thy cross I grasp,
    And Thy pierced feet I clasp;
    Gracious Jesus, spurn me not;
    On me, with compassion fraught,
    Let Thy glances fall.
    Thy cross of agony,
    My Beloved, look on me;
    Turn me wholly unto Thee;
    Be thou whole, say openly:
    I forgive thee all.
    Bernard of Clairvaux
    Burgundian abbot (1090 - 1153)
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  • Bruce Babbitt Protecting all this land, working with the President to establish all these monuments, to, you know... I think the President has a land protection record that's second to no one in this century, maybe Teddy Roosevelt.
    Bruce Babbitt
    American attorney and politician (1938 - )
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  • Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt Providence certainly does not favor just certain individuals, but the deep wisdom of its counsel, instruction and ennoblement extends to all.
    Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt
    German statesman (1767 - 1835)
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  • Thomas Hobbes Prudence is but experience, which equal time, equally bestows on all men, in those things they equally apply themselves unto.
    Thomas Hobbes
    British philosopher (1588 - 1679)
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  • Saul Bellow Psychoanalysis pretends to investigate the Unconscious. The Unconscious by definition is what you are not conscious of. But the Analysts already know what's in it - they should, because they put it all in beforehand.
    Saul Bellow
    American writer (1915 - 2005)
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  • Henry Fielding Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.
    Henry Fielding
    English writer (1707 - 1754)
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  • Hunter S. Thompson Publishers are notoriously slothful about numbers, unless they're attached to dollar signs - unlike journalists, quarterbacks, and felony criminal defendants who tend to be keenly aware of numbers at all times.
    Hunter S. Thompson
    American journalist (1937 - 2005)
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  • Dwight D. Eisenhower Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.
    Dwight D. Eisenhower
    American president (1890 - 1969)
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  • Mark Twain Put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Lord George Byron Pythagoras, Locke, Socrates - but pages might be filled up, as vainly as before, with the sad usage of all sorts of sages, who in his life-time, each was deemed a bore! The loftiest minds outrun their tardy ages.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Abraham Lincoln Quarrel not at all. No man resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention. Still less can he afford to take all the consequences, including the vitiating of his temper and loss of self control. Yield larger things to which you can show no more than equal right; and yield lesser ones, though clearly your own. Better give your path to a dog than be bitten by him in contesting for the right. Even killing the dog would not cure the bite.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Baltasar Gracian Quit while you're ahead. All the best gamblers do.
    Baltasar Gracian
    Spanish Jesuit and philosopher (1601 - 1658)
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