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  • Bob Ehrlich Experts tell us that 90% of all brain development occurs by the age of five. If we don't begin thinking about education in the early years, our children are at risk of falling behind by the time they start Kindergarten.
    Bob Ehrlich
    American lawyer and politician (1957 - )
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  • Augusto Roa Bastos Facts can't be recounted; much less twice over, and far less still by different persons. I've already drummed that thoroughly into your head. What happens is that your wretched memory remembers the words and forgets what's behind them.
    Augusto Roa Bastos
    Paraguayan novelist and writer (1917 - 2005)
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  • Paul De Man Fashion is like the ashes left behind by the uniquely shaped flames of the fire, the trace alone revealing that a fire actually took place.
    Paul De Man
    In België geboren American literair criticus (1919 - 1983)
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  • Blaise Pascal Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back.
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Bill Simmons First impressions matter more in basketball than in any other sport, and they can be savored only in person. Players can't hide behind pads or helmets, so we can stare at them, evaluate every move they make: running, jumping, walking, even ogling the cheerleaders. We can see every ripple and tattoo. If they're lazy, we can tell.
    Bill Simmons
    American sports analyst and author (1969 - )
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  • Sir Thomas Browne Forcible ways make not an end of evil, but leave hatred and malice behind them.
    Sir Thomas Browne
    British author, physician and philosopher (1605 - 1682)
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  • Bayard Taylor From the desert I come to thee, On a stallion shod with fire; And the winds are left behind In the speed of my desire.
    Bayard Taylor
    American poet, travel author, and diplomat (1825 - 1878)
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  • Carolyn Murphy Giving birth was the most amazing thing I've ever done. I'd been living in a Third World country, and I said, 'I'm going to just squat behind a tree.' I basically did that but in a chair in my living room. I didn't want a sterile hospital room. I didn't want doctors. I had a midwife.
    Carolyn Murphy
    American model and actress (1974 - )
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  • Louis de Bernieres God is an oppressor, He is incapable of human sympathy; behind a smiling face He hides an evil heart.
    Louis de Bernieres
    British novelist (1954 - )
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  • Bill Watterson God put me on this earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I am so far behind that I will never die.
    Bill Watterson
    American cartoonist (1958 - )
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  • Richard Buckminster Fuller Great nations are simply the operating fronts of behind-the-scenes, vastly ambitious individuals who had become so effectively powerful because of their ability to remain invisible while operating behind the national scenery.
    Richard Buckminster Fuller
    American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, and inventor (1895 - 1983)
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  • C. S. Lewis Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Arlen Specter Heart disease continues to be the number one killer; cancer, the number 2 killer, not far behind. The tragic aspect of these deadly diseases is that they could all be cured, I do believe, if we had sufficient funding.
    Arlen Specter
    American lawyer, author, and politician (1930 - 2012)
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  • Lyndon B. Johnson Heck by the time a man scratches his behind, clears his throat, and tells me how smart he is, we've already wasted fifteen minutes.
    Lyndon B. Johnson
    American president (1908 - 1973)
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  • A. A. Milne Here is Edward Bear, coming downstairs now, bump, bump, bump, on the back of his head, behind Cristopher Robin. It is, as far as he knows, the only way of coming downstairs, but sometimes he feels that there really is another way, if only he could stop bumping for a moment and think about it.
    Winnie-the-Pooh (1926) Ch. 1, opening lines
    A. A. Milne
    English author, writer of the Winnie-the-Pooh books (1882 - 1956)
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  • William Butler Yeats I balanced all, brought all to mind, the years to come seemed waste of breath, a waste of breath the years behind, in balance with this life, this death.
    William Butler Yeats
    Irish poet (1865 - 1939)
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  • Eleanor Roosevelt I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experience behind him.
    Eleanor Roosevelt
    American "First Lady" and columnist (1884 - 1962)
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  • Germaine Greer I didn't fight to get women out from behind vacuum cleaners to get them onto the board of Hoover.
    Germaine Greer
    Australian writer and public intellectual (1939 - )
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  • Albert Einstein I do not believe in immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern with no superhuman authority behind it.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Mel Brooks I don't believe in this business of being behind, better to be in front.
    Mel Brooks
    American actor, writer, producer, director, comedian, and composer (1926 - )
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