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  • Hubert Humphrey Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law.
    Hubert Humphrey
    American politician (1911 - 1978)
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  • Harold Coffin Behind every successful man you'll find a woman who has nothing to wear.
    Harold Coffin
    American columnist (1905 - 1981)
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  • Barbara Dale Behind every working woman is an enormous pile of unwashed laundry.
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  • Bernard M. Baruch Behind the black portent of the new atomic age lies a hope which, seized upon with faith, can work out salvation... Let us not deceive ourselves: we must elect world peace or world destruction.
    Address to the United Nations Atomic Energy Commission (14 June 1946)
    Bernard M. Baruch
    American investor, philanthropist, statesman, and political consultant (1870 - 1965)
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  • Arthur E. Waite Behind the man is the Tree of Life, bearing twelve fruits, and the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil is behind the woman; the serpent is twining round it.
    Arthur E. Waite
    American-born British poet and mystic (1857 - 1942)
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  • Billy Connolly Behind the proscenium arch, you can't always hear what people in the audience are saying.
    Billy Connolly
    Scottish stand-up comedian, musician, actor (1942 - )
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  • Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn Blow the dust off the clock. Your watches are behind the times. Throw open the heavy curtains which are so dear to you - you do not even suspect that the day has already dawned outside.
    Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn
    Russian Novelist (1918 - 2008)
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  • Dorothy Sayers Books... are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with 'em, then we grow out of 'em and leave 'em behind, as evidence of our earlier stages of development.
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  • Arthur Erickson Compared to industry in Europe or Japan, where industry was based on a craft tradition, we are sadly behind.
    Arthur Erickson
    Canadian architect and urban (1924 - 2009)
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  • Karl Kraus Culture is the tacit agreement to let the means of subsistence disappear behind the purpose of existence. Civilization is the subordination of the latter to the former.
    Karl Kraus
    Austrian writer and journalist (1874 - 1936)
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  • William S. Burroughs Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.
    William S. Burroughs
    American writer and artist (1914 - 1997)
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  • Ban Ki-moon Do not hide behind utopian logic which says that until we have the perfect security environment, nuclear disarmament cannot proceed. This is old-think. This is the mentality of the Cold War era. We must face the realities of the 21st century. The Conference on Disarmament can be a driving force for building a safer world and a better future.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Aravind Adiga Do we loathe our masters behind a facade of love - or do we love them behind a facade of loathing?
    The White Tiger (2008)
    Aravind Adiga
    Indo-Australian writer and journalist (1974 - )
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  • Allan Sloan Don't commit to being a columnist unless you're willing to do it right. Report your behind off, so you have something original and useful to say. Say it in a way that will interest someone other than you, your family and your sources.
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  • Benjamin Stillingfleet Each moss, Each shell, each drawling insect, holds a rank Important in the plan of Him who fram'd This scale of beings; holds a rack which, lost Would break the chain, and leave behind a gap Which Nature's self would rue.
    Benjamin Stillingfleet
    British botanist, translator and author (1702 - 1771)
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  • Bill Shuster Especially today as we fight the war on terror - against an enemy that represents hatred, extremism and stands behind no flag - we need to remember the sacrifices that have gone into protecting our flag.
    Bill Shuster
    American politician and lobbyist (1961 - )
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  • Bobby Flay Even if the chef has a good business head, his focus should be behind kitchen doors. A business partner should take care of everything in front of the kitchen doors.
    Bobby Flay
    American celebrity chef and restaurateur (1964 - )
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  • Carl Sandburg Every blunder behind us is giving a cheer for us, and only for those who were willing to fail are the dangers and splendors of life.
    Ever the Winds of Chance (1983)
    Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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  • Franz Kafka Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.
    Franz Kafka
    Chech German-speaking writer (1883 - 1924)
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  • Ben Shapiro Every so often, we all gaze into the abyss. It's a depressing fact of life that eventually the clock expires; eventually the sand in the hourglass runs out. It's the leaving behind of everything that matters to us that hurts the most.
    Ben Shapiro
    American conservative political commentator and attorney (1984 - )
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