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  • Betsey Johnson If a girl comes to me first for a prom or a bar mitzvah and she likes the way she looks and her boyfriend likes the way she looks, she'll come back.
    Betsey Johnson
    American fashion designer (1942 - )
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  • Buddha If a man offend a harmless, pure, and innocent person, the evil falls back upon that fool, like light dust thrown up against the wind.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson If a man will kick a fact out of the window, when he comes back he finds it again in the chimney corner.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Bill Hybels If Christ's followers aren't growing, it is because they are not making a habit of evaluating their lives. They don't step back and ask, What's working and what's not working?
    Too Busy Not to Pray
    Bill Hybels
    American church figure and author (1951 - )
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  • Caitlin Rose If I could be more vague I'd write more about people in my life, but I hate hurting feelings or making people feel uncomfortable. I've done that before. Unless they're sad songs. Those get finished fast, but the mean ones often end up at the back of the bottom drawer and it's probably for the best.
    Caitlin Rose
    American country singer (1987 - )
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  • Arthur Godfrey If I go to a seminar and someone like you or someone like him is talking, I'm never part of the group that rushes him directly afterward. I always wait in the back corner with my head down until everyone is gone, and then I go up and do my thing.
    Arthur Godfrey
    American radio and television (1903 - 1983)
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  • Bill Maris If I were to leave and raise a venture fund, I would have to find 10 or 100 LPs. They would all give me a bunch of money, and I would take a percentage of that to pay myself. They would expect me to invest that over the next three years, and they want that money back in seven or eight years.
    Bill Maris
    American entrepreneur and venture capitalist
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  • Buffy Sainte-Marie If I'm interrupted, it's just a minor inconvenience, but not a disaster, because it's easy to get back where I was: that is, the paint has not changed consistency; the light has not moved.
    Buffy Sainte-Marie
    Indigenous Canadian-American singer-songwriter and musician (1941 - )
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  • Jim Carrey If I'm not back in five minutes... just wait longer!
    Jim Carrey
    Canadian-American actor, comedian, impressionist and screenwriter (1962 - )
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  • Baba Kalyani If India has to achieve exponential growth, it would have to be on the back of strong growth in the manufacturing sector.
    Baba Kalyani
    Indian businessman (1949 - )
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  • Sylvia Plath If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell. I'll be flying back and forth between one mutually exclusive thing and another for the rest of my days.
    Sylvia Plath
    American poet (1932 - 1963)
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  • Barney Frank If people knew of ethics violations, they should have sent them to the Ethics Committee. If you think there was serious ethics violation that ought to be looked at, you don't hold it back for retaliatory purposes.
    Barney Frank
    American politician (1940 - )
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  • Bert Lance If the house is on fire, and the fireman shows up, you don't question his color or credentials. You don't send him back to the firehouse and say, 'Send somebody else.'
    Bert Lance
    American businessman (1931 - 2013)
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  • Samuel Butler If there is any moral in Christianity, if there is anything to be learned from it, if the whole story is not profitless from first to last, it comes to this: that a man should back his own opinion against the world s.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Alexander Haig If they analyze the situation as thoroughly as they should, Muslims will realize they are the first targets. What are the fundamentalists really after? Simply taking over Islam and then turning its back on modernity.
    Alexander Haig
    American politician (1924 - 2010)
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  • Carl Levin If they understand, which I believe they really are sensing, that the alternative the Republicans have been offering is to repeal what we've done, to go back to Bush policies - and if you asked the public what would you prefer, Bush economic policies or Obama economic policies, they take and prefer Obama economic policies.
    Carl Levin
    American attorney (1934 - )
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  • Alfred Russel Wallace If this is not done, future ages will certainly look back upon us as a people so immersed in the pursuit of wealth as to be blind to higher considerations.
    Alfred Russel Wallace
    British naturalist, explorer, anthropologist and biologist (1823 - )
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  • Boris Johnson If we get outside the EU, if we leave the EU system, we will be relieved of a huge amount of unnecessary regulation that is holding this country back. We will be able to set our own priorities, make our own laws and set our own tax policies to suit the needs of this country. We have a huge opportunity also to make people's votes count for more.
    Boris Johnson
    British politician and author (1964 - )
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  • Buzz Aldrin If we go back to the moon, we're guaranteed second, maybe third place because while we are spending all that money, Russia has its eye on Mars. Landing people on the moon will be terribly consuming of resources we don't have. It sounds great - 'Let's go back. This time we're going to stay.' I don't know why you would want to stay on the moon.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • Ben Vereen If we plant the right seeds, tomorrow will be better. If you put out good things, then you'll get good things back. That's part of our responsibility as entertainers.
    Ben Vereen
    American actor, dancer and singer (1946 - )
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