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  • Adam Brody Well, I guess most people would only know me from The O.C. I did a few episodes of Gilmore Girls before that. I was also a client on a lot of lawyer shows.
    Adam Brody
    American actor, writer, musician, and producer (1979 - )
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  • Alma Guillermoprieto Well, one of the things I discovered in the course of looking back and writing about what I saw in my memory is that I was a closely observant person long before I became a reporter.
    Alma Guillermoprieto
    Mexican journalist
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  • Mark Twain What a good thing Adam had. When he said a good thing, he knew nobody had said it before.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Bill Veeck What can I do, I asked myself, that is so spectacular that no one will be able to say he had seen it before? The answer was perfectly obvious. I would send a midget up to bat.
    Bill Veeck
    American Major League Baseball franchise owner and promoter (1914 - )
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  • Angela Davis What I think is different today is the lack of political connection between the black middle class and the increasing numbers of black people who are more impoverished than ever before.
    Angela Davis
    American political activist, philosopher, academic, and author (1944 - )
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  • Pearl S. Buck What is a neglected child? He is a child not planned for, not wanted. Neglect begins, therefore, before he is born.
    Pearl S. Buck
    American novelist (1892 - 1973)
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  • Evelyn Waugh What is youth except a man or a woman before it is ready or fit to be seen.
    Evelyn Waugh
    British novelist (1903 - 1966)
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  • Henry S. Haskins What lies behind us and what lies before us are but tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
    Source: Meditations in Wall Street (1940) p. 120
    Henry S. Haskins
    American stockbroker and man of letters (1875 - 1957)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies with in us.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Stephen Hawking What was God doing before the divine creation?
    Stephen Hawking
    English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, author and Director (1942 - 2018)
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  • Alexander Pope What's fame? a fancy'd life in other's breath. A thing beyond us, even before our death.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Thomas à Kempis When a man is out of sight, it is not too long before he is out of mind.
    Thomas à Kempis
    Dutch medieval Augustinian canon, writer and mystic (1380 - 1471)
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  • Blaise Pascal When a natural discourse paints a passion or an effect, one feels within oneself the truth of what one reads, which was there before, although one did not know it. Hence one is inclined to love him who makes us feel it, for he has not shown us his own riches, but ours.
    Source: Pensees (1669)
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Thomas Jefferson When angry count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Henry David Thoreau When any real progress is made, we unlearn and learn anew what we thought we knew before.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Mae West When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never tried before.
    Mae West
    American actress (1893 - 1980)
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  • Arthur Hailey When I began writing that I was able and did travel and met some fascinating people and also uncovered some history, which has not been discovered before.
    Arthur Hailey
    British-Canadian novelist (1920 - 2004)
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  • John Keats When I have fears that I may cease to be, Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain.
    John Keats
    English poet (1795 - 1821)
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  • C. S. Lewis When I lay these questions before God I get no answer. But a rather special sort of 'No answer.' It is not the locked door. It is more like a silent, certainly not uncompassionate, gaze. As though He shook His head not in refusal but waiving the question. Like, 'Peace, child; you don't understand.
    Source: A Grief Observed (1961)
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Boris Spassky When I played Bobby Fischer, my opponent fought against organizations - the television producers and the match organizers. But he never fought against me personally. I lost to Bobby before the match because he was already stronger than I. He won normally.
    Boris Spassky
    Russian chess grandmaster (1937 - )
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