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  • Oriana Fallaci We do not understand these Americans who, like adolescents, always speak of sex, and who, like adolescents, all of a sudden have discovered that sex is good not only for procreating children.
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  • Robert A. Cook We dribble away our life, little by little, in small packages - we don't throw it away all at once.
    Robert A. Cook
    American Christian author, radio broadcaster, and pastor (1912 - 1991)
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  • Henry David Thoreau We falsely attribute to men a determined character - putting together all their yesterdays - and averaging them - we presume we know them. Pity the man who has character to support - it is worse than a large family - he is the silent poor indeed.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Carlton Cuse We feel like 'Lost' deserved a real resolution, not a 'snow globe, waking up in bed, it's all been a dream, cut to black' kind of ending. We thought that would be kind of a betrayal to an audience that's been on this journey for six years. We thought that was not the right ending for our show.
    Carlton Cuse
    American screenwriter, producer, and director (1959 - )
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  • Eric Hoffer We find it hard to apply the knowledge of ourselves to our judgment of others. The fact that we are never of one kind, that we never love without reservations and never hate with all our being cannot prevent us from seeing others as wholly black or white.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Joan Didion We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget.
    Joan Didion
    American Essayist (1934 - 2021)
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  • Buffalo Bill We got more provisions for our whiskey than the same money, which we paid for the liquor, would have bought; so after all it proved a very profitable investment.
    Buffalo Bill
    American soldier, bison hunter, and showman (1846 - 1917)
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  • Carlos Alazraqui We got to go to Lucas Ranch and, at that time, my brother was still living in a condo about a mile from Robin Williams, and so I made all of the other comics jealous because I got to get a ride home with him.
    Carlos Alazraqui
    American stand-up comedian, actor and singer (1962 - )
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  • Woodrow Wilson We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers.
    Woodrow Wilson
    American president (1856 - 1924)
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  • Oliver Goldsmith We had no revolutions to fear, nor fatigues to undergo; all our adventures were by the fireside, and all our migrations from the blue bed to the brown.
    Oliver Goldsmith
    Irish writer and poet (1728 - 1774)
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  • Barbara Mandrell We had to go all through the night thinking that our baby was dead. When God showed him to us, he wasn't dead, he was sucking his thumb. God had him safe and sound. He is a miracle. He is so healthy, so perfect, and God has really, really blessed us.
    Barbara Mandrell
    American country music singer, musician, and actress (1948 - )
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  • Ban Ki-moon We have a legal and moral obligation to rid our world of nuclear tests and nuclear weapons. When we put an end to nuclear tests, we get closer to eliminating all nuclear weapons. A world free of nuclear weapons will be safer and more prosperous.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Umberto Eco We have a limit, a very discouraging, humiliating limit: death. That's why we like all the things that we assume have no limits and, therefore, no end. It's a way of escaping thoughts about death. We like lists because we don't want to die.
    Source:  (2009)
    Umberto Eco
    Italian writer and critic (1932 - 2016)
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  • Billy Corgan We have a problem with any labels that people try to hang on us, because all it does is drag you down.
    Source: In: Stapleton, Jim. Smashing Pumpkins (1996)
    Billy Corgan
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1967 - )
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  • Benjamin Mkapa We have a propensity for starting and joining all kinds of organisations, the result was that we were spending more time in conferences than implementing the decisions.
    Source: Commenting on Tanzanias withdrawal from COMESA. 2000-09-04
    Benjamin Mkapa
    Tanzanian politician (1938 - 2020)
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  • Bonnie Jo Campbell We have a shotgun we inherited from my father-in-law, a paranoid Englishman living in Texas. I have a .22 Marlin rifle, similar to the one Annie Oakley had, and my husband has a .357 Magnum pistol. All those are locked up tight, of course. We have a couple of pellet guns that get more use than the real guns.
    Bonnie Jo Campbell
    American writer
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  • James Baldwin We have all had the experience of finding that our reactions and perhaps even our deeds have denied beliefs we thought were ours.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Peace Pilgrim We have all the light we need, we just need to put it in practice.
    Peace Pilgrim
    American activist, mystic and pacifist
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  • Hannah Arendt We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for their abundance.
    Hannah Arendt
    German-born American political theorist (1906 - 1975)
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  • Bella Thorne We have disappointments all the time in the business, and I've lost way more projects than I've booked. I've learned from every opportunity and have been chosen for some really great projects!
    Bella Thorne
    American actress, model, singer, and director (1997 - )
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