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  • Bernard Cornwell Anyone who claims to have an entirely clear conscience is almost certainly a bore.
    Bernard Cornwell
    British author of historical novels (1944 - )
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  • Ben Shahn Art almost always has its ingredient of impudence, its flouting of established authority, so that it may substitute its own authority and its own enlightenment.
    Ben Shahn
    Lithuanian-born American artist (1898 - 1969)
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  • Carlo Rubbia As a boy, I was deeply interested in scientific ideas, electrical and mechanical, and I read almost everything I could find on the subject. I was attracted more by the hardware and construction aspects than by the scientific issues.
    Carlo Rubbia
    Italian physicist and inventor (1934 - )
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  • Thomas B. Macaulay As civilization advances, poetry almost necessarily declines.
    Thomas B. Macaulay
    American essayist and historian (1800 - 1859)
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  • John Milton As good almost kill a man as kill a good book; who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were in the eye.
    John Milton
    English poet, polemicist and man of letters (1608 - 1674)
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg As I take up my pen I feel myself so full, so equal to my subject, and see my book so clearly before me in embryo, I would almost like to try to say it all in a single word.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Richard Whately As one may bring himself to believe almost anything he is inclined to believe, it makes all the difference whether we begin or end with the inquiry, ''What is truth?''
    Richard Whately
    British writer (1787 - 1863)
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  • Candice Millard As someone who has long loved history and reads a lot of history, especially when you get a distance like 130 years, these people can seem almost mythical, and you need something tangible to make them real.
    Candice Millard
    American writer and journalist (1968 - )
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  • Harold Macmillan At home you always have to be a politician. When you're abroad you almost feel yourself a statesman.
    Harold Macmillan
    British Conservative politician, prime minister (1894 - 1986)
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  • Brenda Brathwaite At Sir-Tech I went through the ranks, almost like an apprenticeship. I was very fortunate. The industry was smaller then, and I was able to work alongside some amazing game designers.
    Brenda Brathwaite
    American game designer
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  • Cate Campbell At the Olympics, you have almost nothing to lose, but at the Olympic trials, you have everything to lose. You have the last four years of your life to lose.
    Cate Campbell
    Malawian-born Australian athlete (1992 - )
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  • Brendan Myers At the risk of sounding like a spoilsport, I'd say that pagans have about the same experience of otherness and isolation as anyone else. We're not special in that regard. But this is because the problem of loneliness is almost universal - and that, to my mind, makes it much more serious.
    Brendan Myers
    Canadian philosopher and author (1974 - )
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  • Burt Rutan At various times over 20 years, I did preliminary designs for aircraft like the Stratolaunch. For that whole time I was encouraging us to do something that almost everyone else felt you could not do.
    Burt Rutan
    American aerospace engineer and entrepreneur (1943 - )
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  • Carol Bartz Back when 'social' had a broad definition, you could almost say that Yahoo Finance chat was the first social product.
    Carol Bartz
    American business executive (1948 - )
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  • Bill Veeck Baseball is almost the only orderly thing in a very unorderly world. If you get three strikes, even the best lawyer in the world can't get you off.
    Bill Veeck
    American Major League Baseball franchise owner and promoter (1914 - )
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  • Barbara Walters Because there are so many shows on and because I've been so hands-on - I've had a piece on almost every single week - I don't know how to cut back on that. You really can't.
    Barbara Walters
    American journalist and author (1929 - )
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  • Bill Gross Bernanke and company are trying to reflate the economy with almost stated objective of inflation at 2 percent and higher in order to provide some type of safety margin for a future recession. That's where they want to go.
    Bill Gross
    American investor, fund manager, and philanthropist (1944 - )
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  • Quentin Crisp Bit by bit, I was becoming the almost acceptable face of homosexuality.
    How to Become a Virgin (1981) Ch. 6
    Quentin Crisp
    English writer and actor (1908 - 1999)
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  • Ben Folds But I really do have a soft spot for the solo shows. Any musician who writes and sings will tell you that's the center of it, that is it. It's almost like there's something church-like about it and you gotta go back there, if you're a songwriter that sings your material.
    Ben Folds
    American singer-songwriter, musician and composer (1966 - )
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  • Betty Ford But my activities have been pretty much focused in the last almost 30 years on the recovery, of my own recovery, the understanding for my family of my recovery.
    Betty Ford
    American First Lady (1918 - 2011)
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