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  • Bennie Thompson While I agree that homegrown terrorism and the jihadist threat deserve continuing attention, a single-minded approach ignores all other threats.
    Bennie Thompson
    American politician (1948 - )
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  • Bill Murray While I have felt lonely many times in my life, the oddest feeling of all was after my mother, Lucille, died. My father had already died, but I always had some attachment to our big family while she was alive. It seems strange to say now that I felt so lonely, yet I did.
    Bill Murray
    American actor, comedian, and writer (1950 - )
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  • Richard Buckminster Fuller While no politician or political system can ever afford to yield understandably and enthusiastically to their adversaries and opposers, all politicians can and will yield enthusiastically to the computers safe flight-controlling capabilities in bringing all of humanity in for a happy landing.
    Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth (1963)
    Richard Buckminster Fuller
    American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, and inventor (1895 - 1983)
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  • Bill Owens While one party may possess the levers of power, one party does not possess a monopoly on good ideas. Good lawmaking, after all, is about the ability to craft effective solutions.
    Bill Owens
    American photographer (1938 - )
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  • Oscar Wilde While one should always study the method of a great artist, one should never imitate his manner. The manner of an artist is essentially individual, the method of an artist is absolutely universal. The first is personality, which no one should copy; the second is perfection, which all should aim at.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Adam Schiff While our country has made great strides in breaking down the barriers which for so long denied equal opportunity to all Americans, we are not yet the beautiful symphony of brotherhood of Dr. King's dream.
    Adam Schiff
    American lawyer and politician (1960 - )
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  • Bob Menendez While we may be of different faiths, we have a strong sense of faith, family, community. We hold the values of freedom and human rights very high and I think that those are all a part of a very strong quilt that binds us together.
    Bob Menendez
    American politician (1954 - )
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  • Billy Sunday Whiskey and beer are all right in their place, but their place is in hell. The saloon hasn't one leg to stand on.
    Billy Sunday
    American athlete and evangelist (1862 - 1935)
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  • Bill Engvall Who applies for that job? Who says I want to work in lost luggage? You don't have a good day. That's like having a job emptying port-a-potties. You're just going to catch crap all day long.
    Blue Collar Comedy Tour
    Bill Engvall
    American comedian and actor (1957 - )
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  • Oliver Goldsmith Who can direct when all pretend to know?
    Oliver Goldsmith
    Irish writer and poet (1728 - 1774)
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  • George Eliot Who has not felt the beauty of a woman's arm? The unspeakable suggestions of tenderness that lie in the dimpled elbow, and all the varied gently-lessening curves, down to the delicate wrist, with its tiniest, almost imperceptible nicks in the firm softness.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Martin Luther Who has skill in the art of music is of good temperament and fitted for all things.
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  • Bunker Roy Who is a professional? A professional is someone who has a combination of competence, confidence and belief. A water diviner is a professional. A traditional midwife is a professional. A traditional bone setter is a professional. These are professionals all over the world. You find them in any inaccessible village around the world.
    Bunker Roy
    Indian social activist and educator (1945 - )
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  • Carl Sagan Who is more humble? The scientist who looks at the universe with an open mind and accepts whatever it has to teach us, or somebody who says everything in this book must be considered the literal truth and never mind the fallibility of all the human beings involved?
    Interview with Charlie Rose (1996)
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Who is the most sensible person? The one who finds what is to their own advantage in all that happens to them.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Bruce Vilanch Who knew we had all this O.C.D. in the world? Well actually, I suppose it's pretty obvious. It explains Sudoku, doesn't it?
    Bruce Vilanch
    American comedy writer, songwriter and actor (1948 - )
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  • Alan Paton Who knows what we live, and struggle, and die?... Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom.
    Alan Paton
    South African author and anti-apartheid activist (1903 - 1988)
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  • Amos Bronson Alcott Who knows, the mind has the key to all things besides.
    Amos Bronson Alcott
    American educator and social reformer (1799 - 1888)
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  • Carl Sandburg Who put up that cage? Who hung it up with bars, doors? Why do those on the inside want to get out? Why do those outside want to get in? What is this crying inside and out all the time? What is this endless, useless beating of baffled wings at these bars, doors, this cage?
    Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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  • Sir Walter Raleigh Who so taketh in hand to frame any state or government ought to presuppose that all men are evil, and at occasions will show themselves so to be.
    Sir Walter Raleigh
    British courtier, writer (1552 - 1618)
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