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  • Barbara Deming All prisons that have existed in our society to date put people away as no human being should ever be put away.
    Barbara Deming
    American feminist and advocate (0 - 1984)
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  • Casey Stengel All you have to do is keep the five players who hate your guts away from the five who are undecided.
    The Guardian Book of Sports Quotes, ed. John Samuel (1985)
    Casey Stengel
    American basketbal player and manager (1890 - 1975)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton Among the very rich you will never find a really generous man, even by accident. They may give their money away, but they will never give themselves away; they are egoistic, secretive, dry as old bones. To be smart enough to get all that money you must be dull enough to want it.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Bill Klem An angry player can't argue with the back of an umpire who is walking away.
    Bill Klem
    American professional baseball umpire (1874 - 1951)
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  • Constance Rourke An emotional man may possess no humor, but a humorous man usually has deep pockets of emotion, sometimes tucked away or forgotten.
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  • Bum Phillips An expert is an ordinary fella away from home.
    Bum Phillips
    American football coach (1923 - )
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  • Bob Schieffer And I came away from that experience, and it was a very difficult experience - I came to understand that you have to practice at being a good father and practice at being a good husband, just as you have to practice at being a good journalist.
    Bob Schieffer
    American television journalist (1937 - )
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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow And the night shall be filled with music, and the cares, that infest the day, shall fold their tents, like the Arabs, and as silently steal away.
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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  • Beau Bridges And when I've been away from my family and friends, I have felt good hearing some of those old songs.
    Beau Bridges
    American actor and director (1941 - )
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  • Caroline Knapp Anorexia is a response to cultural images of the female body - waiflike, angular - that both capitulates to the ideal and also mocks it, strips away all the ancillary signs of sexuality, strips away breasts and hips and butt and leaves in their place a garish caricature, a cruel cartoon of flesh and bone.
    Caroline Knapp
    American writer and columnist
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  • Bob Edwards Any outfit that has to beg its listeners for money is an organization that has to constantly please its listeners or it will dry up and go away. It shouldn't work when you think about it.
    Bob Edwards
    American broadcast journalist
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  • Barry Sanders Anyone who has played the game professionally, you're always taught that the ball is the most important, most precious thing, so when the ball hits the ground, it's always a mad scramble. It's amazing how many times there is a fumble, and the person who recovers it initially doesn't walk away with the ball.
    Barry Sanders
    American football player (1968 - )
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  • John McGahern Anything that is given can be at once taken away. We have to learn never to expect anything, and when it comes it's no more than a gift on loan.
    John McGahern
    Irish writer and novelist (1934 - 2006)
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  • Carl Sagan Anything you don't understand, Mr. Rankin, you attribute to God. God for you is where you sweep away all the mysteries of the world, all the challenges to our intelligence. You simply turn your mind off and say God did it.
    Contact (1985) Ch. 10 (p. 166)
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Willa Cather Art, it seems to me, should simplify finding what conventions of form and what detail one can do without and yet preserve the spirit of the whole - so that all that one has suppressed and cut away is there to the reader's consciousness as much as if it were in type on the page.
    Willa Cather
    American author (1873 - 1947)
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  • Alexander Theroux Artists are never complete people. But if it's art that completes them, then what is taken away?
    Alexander Theroux
    American novelist and poet
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  • Benjamin Todd Jealous As an American people, what is greatest about our history are the many times we have led this world away from hate, towards hope.
    Benjamin Todd Jealous
    American civic leader and politician (1973 - )
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  • Sri Sarada Devi As clouds are blown away by the wind, the thirst for material pleasures will be driven away by the utterance of the Lord's name.
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  • Britt Ekland As for the stage fright, it never goes away. When I'm waiting in the wings to go on, it's agony every single time but I stay focused and I know that once I'm on stage it'll be fine; I'll be in my happy little bubble.
    Britt Ekland
    Swedish actress and singer (1942 - )
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  • Antisthenes As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion.
    Antisthenes
    Greek philosopher (445 - 365)
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