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  • James Baldwin Society is held together by our need; we bind it together with legend, myth, coercion, fearing that without it we will be hurled into that void, within which, like the earth before the Word was spoken, the foundations of society are hidden.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Edward Abbey Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the top.
    Edward Abbey
    American author and essayist (1927 - 1989)
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  • George Santayana Society is like the air, necessary to breathe but insufficient to live on.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • Ben Gibbard Some fans get genuinely upset if I admit that a song that they held close to their heart was not based on actual events in my life. Like What Sarah Said : I was never in a waiting room in a hospital waiting for news that somebody was going to die.
    The Meaning Of Life
    Ben Gibbard
    American singer, songwriter and guitarist (1976 - )
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  • Cate Blanchett Some ideas, like what you're going to do with your life, take time to form.
    Cate Blanchett
    Australian actress and theatre (1969 - )
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  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge Some men are like musical glasses; to produce their finest tones you must keep them wet.
    Samuel Taylor Coleridge
    English poet and critic (1772 - 1834)
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  • John Burroughs Some men are like nails, very easily drawn; others however are more like rivets never drawn at all.
    John Burroughs
    American writer (1837 - 1921)
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  • Billie Holiday Some men like me talkin' happy
    Some calls it snappy
    Some call me honey
    Others think I got money
    Some tell me baby you're built for speed
    Now if you put that all together
    Makes me everything a good man needs.
    Billies Blues
    Billie Holiday
    American jazz musician and singer-songwriter (1915 - 1959)
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  • Berthold Auerbach Some men, like modern shops, hang everything in their show windows; when one goes inside, nothing is to be found.
    Berthold Auerbach
    German-Jewish writer and poet (1812 - 1882)
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  • Abdelkader El Djezairi Some men, like spaniels, will only fawn the more when repulsed, but will pay little heed to a friendly caress.
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  • Alfred Hitchcock Some of our most exquisite murders have been domestic, performed with tenderness in simple, homey places like the kitchen table.
    Alfred Hitchcock
    English moviedirector (1899 - 1980)
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  • Jack Herbert Some of us are like wheelbarrows, only useful when pushed and easily upset.
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  • Edward de Bono Some people drift along like a cork on a river, feeling that they cannot do anything except drift, moment to moment. This is an attitude of mind. Everyone can be constructive even in tiny ways.
    Edward de Bono
    Maltese physician, psychologist, philosopher, author and inventor (1933 - )
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  • C. S. Lewis Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the passion of Christ.
    Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Zig Ziglar Some people find fault like there is a reward for it.
    Zig Ziglar
    American author, salesman, and motivational speaker. (1926 - 2012)
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  • Brad Meltzer Some people help thousands of people directly, like Marie Curie or Susan B. Anthony. Others help us by inspiring us, like Amelia Earhart. But you do have to help someone.
    Brad Meltzer
    American political thriller novelist and non-fiction writer (1970 - )
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  • Gordon R. Dickson Some people like my advice so much that they frame it upon the wall instead of using it.
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  • Robert Louis Stevenson Some people swallow the universe like a pill; they travel on through the world, like smiling images pushed from behind.
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    Scottish writer and poet (1850 - 1894)
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  • Bill Shankly Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I don't like that attitude. I can assure them it is much more serious than that.
    In Sunday Times (UK) Oct. 4 1981
    Bill Shankly
    Scottish football player and manager (1913 - )
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  • Billy Sunday Some persons have lived manly or womanly lives, and they lack but one thing - open confession of the Lord Jesus Christ. Some men think that they must come to him in a certain way - that they must be stirred by emotion or something like that.
    Billy Sunday
    American athlete and evangelist (1862 - 1935)
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