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  • Barbara Boxer If we turn our back on the people of this country who need to work for a living, we shouldn't be here, to be honest, because that has to be an essential part of what we do to protect the country, from the standpoint of defense, protect workers and make sure they have jobs.
    Barbara Boxer
    American politician (1940 - )
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  • Adrian Lyne If you are prepared to make a fool of yourself for them then you usually get that back. I think that there are points where you become so close to an actor, you know them so well, almost as well or better than their spouse. You have to know them, warts and all.
    Adrian Lyne
    English film director, writer and producer (1941 - )
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  • Jesse Owens If you don't try to win you might as well hold the Olympics in somebody's back yard. The thrill of competing carries with it the thrill of a gold medal. One wants to win to prove himself the best.
    Jesse Owens
    American athlete (1913 - 1980)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche If you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.
    Original: Wenn du lange in einen Abgrund blickst, blickt der Abgrund auch in dich hinein.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Bob Menendez If you got up this morning and had fruits for breakfast, it was probably picked by the bent back of an immigrant worker. If you slept in a hotel or motel of the nation, you probably had your room done by an immigrant worker.
    Bob Menendez
    American politician (1954 - )
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  • Winston Churchill If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use the pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time; a tremendous whack.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Bill Hybels If you have pumped your fist at God, the good news is that you can come back into fellowship with him right this minute.
    Too Busy Not to Pray
    Bill Hybels
    American church figure and author (1951 - )
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  • Cass Sunstein If you like dark movies or light movies, 'The Empire Strikes Back' is one of the great movies of all time. It's probably the greatest movie of all time. 'A New Hope' is a superb movie. It's probably the second-greatest movie of all time, but 'The Empire Strikes Back' is better.
    Cass Sunstein
    American legal scholar (1954 - )
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  • Bill Nye If you look back on all the teachers that you liked, I am sure you will find they were very entertaining.
    Bill Nye
    American science communicator, television presenter (1955 - )
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  • Jess Lair If you love someone, set them free. If they come back they're yours; if they don't they never were.
    “I Ain’t Much Baby—But I’m All I’ve Got
    Jess Lair
    American writer (1927 - 2000)
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  • Lois McMaster Bujold If you make it plain you like people, it's hard for them to resist liking you back.
    Lois McMaster Bujold
    American speculative fiction writer
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  • Albert Schweitzer Impart as much as you can of your spiritual being to those who are on the road with you, and accept as something precious what comes back to you from them.
    Albert Schweitzer
    German physician, theologian, philosopher, musician (1875 - 1965)
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  • Boris Johnson In 1904, 20 per cent of journeys were made by bicycle in London. I want to see a figure like that again. If you can't turn the clock back to 1904, what's the point of being a Conservative?
    Boris Johnson on South Bank for Barclays Cycle Hire launch, London SE1, 30 July 2010
    Boris Johnson
    British politician and author (1964 - )
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  • Bunker Roy In 1965, I went to what was called the worst Bihar famine in India, and I saw starvation, death, people dying of hunger, for the first time. It changed my life. I came back home, told my mother, 'I'd like to live and work in a village.' Mother went into a coma.
    Bunker Roy
    Indian social activist and educator (1945 - )
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  • Carol Loomis In 1980, aided by $1.5 billion in loan guarantees from the U.S. government and his own pitchman routines on television, Lee Iacocca brought Chrysler back from the abyss.
    Carol Loomis
    American financial journalist (1929 - )
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  • Carl Icahn In 2008, people who invested in hedge funds needed capital badly, but many of the funds would not return their money. However, I gave money back to any investor who requested it. It was the bottom of the market and a pretty tough time.
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  • Bjorn Ulvaeus In a way, I'm kind of a bystander looking at this phenomenon that is ABBA, which is still around, and that I thought would be finished in 1981 and forgotten. I'm amazed how this could happen, and I don't know why it happened. I'm just grateful and humble. I just sit back and enjoy.
    Bjorn Ulvaeus
    Swedish songwriter, producer, member of ABBA (1945 - )
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  • Michael Ondaatje In Canada pianos needed water. You opened up the back and left a full glass of water, and a month later the glass would be empty. Her father had told her about the dwarfs who drank only at pianos, never in bars.
    De Engelse patient (2011) 67
    Michael Ondaatje
    Sri Lankan-born Canadian poet, fiction writer (1943 - )
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  • Edna O'Brien In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: ''Is there someone new?''
    Edna O'Brien
    Irish writer and poet (1930 - 2024)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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