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  • Casey Affleck For people who have... had curve balls thrown at them, it is easier to digest change and digest change in other people. Change only scares the small-minded. The small-minded and me.
    Casey Affleck
    American actor and director (1975 - )
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  • Benjamin Watson For policemen to be honest about the fact that they may be fearful when they come into a certain situation, not understanding what's going to happen. The only way things will change and things will get better is if people are able to be honest without feeling like they're going to be offended, or they're going to offend someone else.
    Benjamin Watson
    American football player (1980 - )
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  • John Dryden For present joys are more to flesh and blood than a dull prospect of a distant good.
    John Dryden
    English poet and playwright (1631 - 1700)
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  • Bill Buford For reasons I didn't understand, I felt I needed to learn how to cook the food of France and knew that I was going to have to get over to the country: to Paris, I'd always assumed.
    Bill Buford
    American author and journalist
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  • Frederick W. Faber For right is right, since God is God and right the day must win. To doubt would be disloyalty, to falter would be sin.
    Frederick W. Faber
    English hymn writer and theologian (1814 - 1863)
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  • John Milton For solitude sometimes is best society,
    And short retirement urges sweet return.
    Paradise lost (1667) IX, 249
    John Milton
    English poet, polemicist and man of letters (1608 - 1674)
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  • Carmen Electra For some reason if we hear 100 praises and one criticism, we focus on that one hurtful thing.
    Carmen Electra
    American actress, model and singer (1972 - )
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  • Allen Tate For some reason most critics have a hard time fixing their minds directly under their noses, and before they see the object that is there they use a telescope upon the horizon to see where it came from.
    Allen Tate
    American poet and essayist (1899 - 1979)
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  • Arthur Conan Doyle For strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination.
    Arthur Conan Doyle
    British writer and medical doctor (1859 - 1930)
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  • Thomas Carlyle For suffering and enduring there is no remedy, but striving and doing.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Haniel Long For support, I fall back on my heart. Has a man any fault a woman cannot weave with and try to change into something better, if the god her man prays to is a mother holding a baby?
    Haniel Long
    American writer, poet, journalist (1888 - 1956)
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  • Bob Schieffer For sure, the American people have access to more information now than any other people who have ever lived on earth. And I think we do a pretty good job of sorting out what's important.
    Bob Schieffer
    American television journalist (1937 - )
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  • Carol Berg For the 'Rai-kirah' books, I began with the image of Aleksander riding the great wastelands, and that quickly morphed into the desert. Because I wanted my slave market cold and miserable, I chose to set the opening scene in the empire's summer capital in the mountains.
    Carol Berg
    American writer of fantasy novels (1948 - )
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  • Anthony Weiner For the fifth year in a row, the Bush budget cuts city core services to pay for wealthy tax breaks. And once again, the mayor's requests were not funded.
    Anthony Weiner
    American politician (1964 - )
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  • Bill Moyers For the first time in our history, ideology and theology hold a monopoly of power in Washington.
    Bill Moyers
    American journalist (1934 - )
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  • Hubert Humphrey For the first time in the history of mankind, one generation literally has the power to destroy the past, the present and the future, the power to bring time to an end.
    Hubert Humphrey
    American politician (1911 - 1978)
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  • Carl Sagan For the first time, we have the power to decide the fate of our planet and ourselves. This is a time of great danger, but our species is young, and curious, and brave. It shows much promise.
    Cosmos: A Personal Voyage (1990) 05 min 20 sec
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Buzz Aldrin For the future, primarily, we must educate people in science, engineering, technology and math.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • Burt Rutan For the industry we're starting now, for suborbital flight, there is no destination, so the spacecraft you go up in has to be large and spacious. That's why SpaceShipTwo is much bigger than SpaceShipOne: It needs to be because you want those six people to be floating around and enjoying themselves.
    Burt Rutan
    American aerospace engineer and entrepreneur (1943 - )
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  • Plato For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state; since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions.
    Plato
    Greek philosopher (427 - 347)
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