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  • Thomas Carlyle What we become depends on what we read after all the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is the collection of books.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Stephen Leacock What we call creative work, ought not to be called work at all, because it isn't. I imagine that Thomas Edison never did a day's work in his last fifty years.
    Stephen Leacock
    Canadian humorist and economist (1869 - 1944)
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  • Bill Clinton What we have to do now is not to forget these people and places when all the cameras are not there. I think that's the most important message I can say to the American people right now.
    Bill Clinton
    President of the US (1946 - )
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  • Ben Carson What we have to stop and think about is that we have weakened ourselves militarily to such an extent that it affects all of our military policies.
    Ben Carson
    American politician, and author (1951 - )
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  • Anita Hill What we really need to be understanding is that all of these things matter and they all stem from the fact that certain people live with power and authority and they want to maintain it.
    Anita Hill
    American lawyer and academic (1956 - )
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  • Arthur Laffer What we're talking about is the price of goods, all goods, in terms of money. That has nothing to do with unemployment, except for the fact that you get fewer goods. And when you have more money and fewer goods, the amount of dollars per good goes up. It goes up because there are fewer goods and it goes up because there is more money.
    Arthur Laffer
    American economist and author (1940 - )
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  • Nora Ephron What will happen to sex after liberation? Frankly, I don't know. It is a great mystery to all of us.
    Nora Ephron
    American journalist, writer, and filmmaker (1941 - 2012)
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  • John Milton What wisdom can there be to choose, what continence to forbear without the knowledge of evil? He that can apprehend and consider vice with all her baits and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true wayfaring Christian.
    John Milton
    English poet, polemicist and man of letters (1608 - 1674)
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  • Aldous Huxley What with making their way and enjoying what they have won, heroes have no time to think. But the sons of heroes -ah, they have all the necessary leisure.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Barbara Kingsolver What you lose in blindness is the space around you, the place where you are, and without that you might not exist. You could be nowhere at all.
    Barbara Kingsolver
    American novelist, essayist and poet (1955 - )
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  • Don DeLillo What you see is not what we see. What you see is distracted by memory, by being who you are, all this time, for all these years.
    Falling Man (2011) 73
    Don DeLillo
    American Author (1936 - )
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  • Robert Browning What's a man's age? He must hurry more, that's all; Cram in a day, what his youth took a year to hold.
    Robert Browning
    English poet (1812 - 1889)
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  • Julia Roberts What's nice about my dating life is that I don't have to leave my house. All I have to do is read the paper: I'm marrying Richard Gere, dating Daniel Day-Lewis, parading around with John F. Kennedy, Jr., and even Robert De Niro was in there for a day.
    Julia Roberts
    American actress (1967 - )
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  • Bobby Rahal What's really hit me over the years is that you go to every race and see all the well-wishers, and you really feel like you are connected with people after all these years.
    Bobby Rahal
    American auto racing driver (1953 - )
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  • Joan Didion What's so hard about that first sentence is that you're stuck with it. Everything else is going to flow out of that sentence. And by the time you've laid down the first two sentences, your options are all gone.
    Faceboek (2013)
    Joan Didion
    American Essayist (1934 - 2021)
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  • Burning Spear Whatever I do, I do for the universal. It's not like an individual thing; it's not like something from me. What I present to the people is for all of us, you know. I present music for the people.
    Burning Spear
    Jamaican reggae singer-songwriter, vocalist and musician (1945 - )
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  • Lord Chesterfield Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Bram Fischer Whatever labels may be attached to the fifteen charges brought against me, they all arise from my having been a member of the Communist Party and from my activities as a member.
    Bram Fischer
    South African lawyer and anti-apartheid activist (1908 - 1975)
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  • Benjamin Robbins Curtis Whatever may be the merits of a religious system, its effects upon the mass of mankind must depend in an important degree upon its teachers. All instruction and all truth, except simple mathematical truth, is modified by the medium through which it is conveyed.
    Benjamin Robbins Curtis
    American attorney (1809 - 1874)
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  • Anna Held Whatever success I may have attained is due to the fact that since I was old enough to work at all, my ambition has never deserted me.
    Anna Held
    Polish-born stage performer and singer (1872 - 1918)
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