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  • Bernie Sanders As a single-payer advocate, I believe that at the end of the day, if a state goes forward and passed an effective single-payer program, it will demonstrate that you can provide quality health care to every man, woman and child in a more cost-effective way.
    Bernie Sanders
    American politician (1941 - )
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  • Oscar Wilde As a wicked man I am a complete failure. Why, there are lots of people who say I have never really done anything wrong in the whole course of my life. Of course they only say it behind my back.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Bruce Eric Kaplan As an adult, it's hard for me to remember my mother before her sickness. But if I go back into childhood, I can access that.
    Bruce Eric Kaplan
    American cartoonist
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  • Boomer Esiason As both a local resident and a parent with a CF-afflicted child, I'm thankful for companies like Canon, Chase and Outback who believe that giving back to the community is critical to their role as corporate citizens.
    Boomer Esiason
    American football player (1961 - )
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  • Adlai Stevenson II As citizens of this democracy, you are the rulers and the ruled, the law-givers and the law-abiding, the beginning and the end.
    Adlai Stevenson II
    American politician and governor (1900 - 1965)
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  • Bob Beauprez As freedom-loving people across the globe hope for an end to tyranny, we will never forget the enormous suffering of the Holocaust.
    Bob Beauprez
    American politician and member (1948 - )
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  • James Russell Lowell As life runs on, the road grows strange with faces new - and near the end. The milestones into headstones change, Neath every one a friend.
    James Russell Lowell
    American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat (1819 - 1891)
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  • Bill Dedman As more workers lose manufacturing jobs as companies cut back, some are being forced into lower-paying retail jobs. But they still have union cards in their wallets.
    Bill Dedman
    American journalist (1960 - )
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  • Bo Sanchez As much as I loved the model of St. Francis, I realized that I couldn't afford to be poor, because unlike St. Francis, I'm not celibate. I was enlightened that God's call to me was not poverty but generosity and simplicity. And I had to go back to the lesson I learned from my parents: that is, simplicity.
    Bo Sanchez
    Filippine author, lay pastor and entrepreneur (1966 - )
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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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  • Bjorn Borg As tennis players, we work and we sacrifice many things. To lose, that's not a happy thing - I mean sure, I was disappointed. You have to come back strong. But to win the last point in a grand slam tournament, that's the most beautiful and most satisfying feeling you can get as a tennis player. It's worth it.
    Bjorn Borg
    Swedish tennis player (1956 - )
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  • Michel Foucault As the archeology of our thought easily shows, man is an invention of recent date. And one perhaps nearing its end.
    Michel Foucault
    French essayist and philosopher (1926 - 1984)
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  • Sallust As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.
    Sallust
    Roman historian (86 - 34)
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  • Albert Camus As usual I finish the day before the sea, sumptuous this evening beneath the moon, which writes Arab symbols with phosphorescent streaks on the slow swells. There is no end to the sky and the waters. How well they accompany sadness!
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Buzz Aldrin As we reflect back upon the tragic loss of Challenger and her brave crew of heroes who were aboard that fateful day, I am reminded that they truly represented the best of us, as they climbed aloft on a plume of propellant gasses, reaching for the stars, to inspire us who were Earthbound.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • Bill Rancic Ask any successful person to look back over the events of his or her life, and chances are there'll be a turning point of one kind or another. It doesn't matter if that success has come on a ball field or in a boardroom, in a research laboratory or on a campaign trail - it can usually be traced to some pivotal moment.
    Bill Rancic
    American entrepreneur (1971 - )
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  • Alanis Morissette At some point, I would like to write a book and other things, but I work best when there is some sort of deadline in my own mind, but not when fifty people or fifty million people are breathing down the back of my neck.
    Alanis Morissette
    Canadian-American singer, songwriter and actress (1974 - )
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  • Carlo Collodi At such a loving invitation, Pinocchio, with one leap from the back of the orchestra, found himself in the front rows. With another leap, he was on the orchestra leader's head. With a third, he landed on the stage.
    Source: Pinocchio
    Carlo Collodi
    Italian author, humorist and journalist (1826 - 1890)
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  • Jean de la Bruyère At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.
    Jean de la Bruyère
    French writer (1645 - 1696)
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  • Billy Parish At the end of 2002, mid-way through my junior year at Yale and increasingly freaked out about the deepening climate crisis, I dropped out to try to build a youth movement.
    Billy Parish
    American environmental entrepreneur, author, and activist (1981 - )
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