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  • Carlos Ruiz Zafon Wars have no memory, and nobody has the courage to understand them until there are no voices left to tell what happened, until the moment comes when we no longer recognize them and they return, with another face and another name, to devour what they left behind.
    La sombra del viento (The Shadow of the Wind) (2001)
    Carlos Ruiz Zafon
    Spanish novelist (1964 - 2020)
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  • Barbara Boxer We are all different. Yet we are all God's children. We are all united behind this country and the common cause of freedom, justice, fairness, and equality. That is what unites us.
    Barbara Boxer
    American politician (1940 - )
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  • Barry McCaffrey We have 1.8 million Americans behind bars today at Local, State and Federal level. In the federal system, which has doubled in the last ten years, over 110,000 people behind bars in the Federal system, probably two-thirds are there for drug related reason.
    Barry McCaffrey
    American Army officer, professor and business consultant (1942 - )
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  • Bob Filner We have seen that, in another unfunded mandate, the so-called No Child Left Behind Act, which created tougher standards, and we all support that, but Congress did not provide the money to attract and hire the best teachers.
    Bob Filner
    American politician (1942 - )
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld We should often be ashamed of our finest actions if the world understood all the motives behind them.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Adam Savage We're not leaving here without Buster, man. Leave no crash-test dummy behind!.
    Adam Savage
    American special effects designer and fabricator (1967 - )
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  • Audre Lorde What I leave behind has a life of its own.
    Audre Lorde
    American writer, feminist, womanist, librarian, and civil (1934 - 1992)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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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.
    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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  • Edgar W. Howe What people say behind your back is your standing in the community.
    Edgar W. Howe
    American journalist and writer (1853 - 1937)
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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow When a great man dies, for years the light he leaves behind him, lies on the paths of men.
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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  • Jean Cocteau When a work appears to be ahead of its time, it is only the time that is behind the work.
    Jean Cocteau
    French writer (1889 - 1963)
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  • Beth Ditto When I moved out of my mom's house at 18 I was almost as sad to leave her sewing machine behind as anything else.
    Beth Ditto
    American singer-songwriter and actress (1981 - )
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  • Boris Johnson When lorry drivers come up behind me and I'm cycling, innocently keeping to my side of the road, and they decide because they are so big, and their lorry is so powerful, and they just want to clear me out of the road, and they hoot aggressively, then I do see red a bit. I do.
    Boris Johnson
    British politician and author (1964 - )
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  • Aaron McGruder When the news wants to tell you something is important, they put dramatic theme music behind it. They scare you into watching the story.
    Aaron McGruder
    American writer, lecturer and producer (1974 - )
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  • Carla Bley When you have 13 horns, and one is soloing, you have 12 people to play the richest, fullest chord you could ever imagine behind that solo.
    Carla Bley
    American jazz composer, pianist, organist and bandleader (1936 - )
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  • Bill Goldberg When you hear of somebody named Goldberg, you think of a guy sitting behind a desk investing your money.
    Bill Goldberg
    American professional wrestler and actor (1966 - )
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  • Denzel Washington Where I think the most work needs to be done is behind the camera, not in front of it.
    Denzel Washington
    American actor, director, and producer (1954 - )
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  • Abraham Cowley Who lets slip fortune, her shall never find: Occasion once past by, is bald behind.
    Abraham Cowley
    English poet (1618 - 1667)
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