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  • Andrea Dworkin All personal, psychological, social, and institutionalized domination on this earth can be traced back to its source: the phallic identities of men.
    Andrea Dworkin
    American radical feminist and writer (1946 - 2005)
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  • Caitlin Doughty All the body wants to do biologically is decompose. Once you die, it's, 'Let me out here! I'm ready to shoot my atoms back into the universe!'
    Caitlin Doughty
    American author, blogger (1984 - )
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  • Buzz Aldrin All the Chinese have to do is fly around the Moon and back, and they'll appear to have won the return to the Moon with humans. They could put one person on the surface of the Moon for one day and he'd be a national hero.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • Bryan Burrough All the way back in 1999, when I first stumbled upon the idea of a project tracking John Dillinger and Baby Face Nelson and all the major Depression-era bank robbers, I thought the subject was too big to be a single book. Instead, with a friend's help, I pitched the idea as a miniseries to HBO. To my amazement, they bought it.
    Bryan Burrough
    American author and correspondent (1961 - )
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  • William E. Gladstone All the world over, I will back the masses against the classes.
    William E. Gladstone
    British Liberal Prime Minister, Statesman (1809 - 1888)
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  • Toni Morrison All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.
    Toni Morrison
    American novelist, essayist, editor (1931 - 2019)
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  • Arthur Levitt Although the Internet makes it seem as if you have a direct connection to the securities market, you don't. Lines may clog; systems may break; orders may back-up.
    Arthur Levitt
    American SEC chairman (1931 - )
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  • Carl Lewis Amateurism is the strongest form of discrimination in sports. Because it discriminates against the underprivileged, it discriminates against the poor. If we want sports to go back to the wealthy, let's make it amateur again.
    Carl Lewis
    American athlete (1961 - )
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  • Ben Jonson Ambition, like a torrent, ne'er looks back;
    And is a swelling, and the last affection
    A high mind can put off; being both a rebel
    Unto the soul and reason, and enforceth
    All laws, all conscience, treads upon religion,
    and offereth violence to nature's self.
    Catiline His Conspiracy
    Ben Jonson
    British Dramatist, Poet (1572 - 1637)
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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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  • Bill Bryson And I find chopsticks frankly distressing. Am I alone in thinking it odd that a people ingenious enough to invent paper, gunpowder, kites and any number of other useful objects, and who have a noble history extending back 3,000 years haven't yet worked out that a pair of knitting needles is no way to capture food?
    Bill Bryson
    American-British author (1951 - )
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  • Brandi Chastain And I remember how proud I was to put on my training jersey and go out on the field. Making it back to that environment was for me my greatest moment, because somebody had told me I couldn't do it and I never gave up on myself, the game and my teammates.
    Brandi Chastain
    American soccer player (1968 - )
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  • Billy Tauzin And if citizens of New Orleans who are really contemplating coming back heard that we're really intent upon making the place secure again - regardless of whether the levees held or not - then I think a rebuilding process would really take shape.
    Billy Tauzin
    American lobbyist and politician (1943 - )
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  • Arthur Laffer And just remember, every dollar we spend on outsourcing is spent on U.S. goods or invested back in the U.S. market. That's accounting.
    Arthur Laffer
    American economist and author (1940 - )
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  • Arthur Laffer And let the Fed sell bonds to bring bank reserves back down to required reserve levels, so we have restraint on bank lending and bank issuances of liability.
    Arthur Laffer
    American economist and author (1940 - )
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  • Carlton Fisk And then after that, running around the bases, it was just one of those things. You couldn't believe what happened to you. And I look back on it, it's almost like it happened to somebody else.
    Carlton Fisk
    American baseball player (1947 - )
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  • Barbara Mandrell And they just saw me on that and - from the time I was 11 until I was 12, I guess. And then when I had just turned 13, they asked me if I wanted to tour with Johnny Cash back East.
    Barbara Mandrell
    American country music singer, musician, and actress (1948 - )
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  • Carl Sandburg And they tell me you are brutal and my reply is: On the faces of women and children I have seen the marks of wanton hunger. And having answered so I turn once more to those who sneer at this my city, and I give them back the sneer and say to them: Come and show me another city with lifted head singing so proud to be alive and coarse and strong and cunning.
    Chicago l. 10 (1916)
    Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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  • George William Curtis Anger, even when it punishes the faults of delinquents, ought not to precede reason as its mistress, but attend as a handmaid at the back of reason, to come to the front when bidden. For once it begins to take control of the mind, it calls just what it does cruelly.
    George William Curtis
    American journalist (1824 - 1892)
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  • Henry Miller Any genuine philosophy leads to action and from action back again to wonder, to the enduring fact of mystery.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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