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  • Allen Tate But in our age the appeal to authority is weak, and I am of my age.
    Allen Tate
    American poet and essayist (1899 - 1979)
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  • Carl Friedrich Gauss But in our opinion truths of this kind should be drawn from notions rather than from notations.
    About the proof of Wilsons theorem. Disquisitiones Arithmeticae (1801)
    Carl Friedrich Gauss
    German mathematician and physicist (1777 - 1855)
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  • Buffy Sainte-Marie But in the old days, visual artists used to fall into two distinct categories: those of us who created images with cameras and those of us who applied stuff onto other stuff, with brushes or other tools.
    Buffy Sainte-Marie
    Indigenous Canadian-American singer-songwriter and musician (1941 - )
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  • Al Franken But in the right-wing media, they do have a right-wing bias. And they also have an agenda. So their agenda is: we're an adjunct of the Republican Party, and we're going push that agenda every day, and, as you say, brand these stories that help further the right-wing cause.
    Al Franken
    American comedian, politician and author (1951 - )
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  • Arne Jacobsen But inspiration? - That's when you come home from abroad and are asked: Well, have you found inspiration? - and fortunately you haven't. But the impressions sink in, of course, and may emerge later: None of us has invented the house; that was done many thousands of years ago.
    Arne Jacobsen
    Danish architect and designer (1902 - 1971)
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  • Bill Nye But investment in space stimulates society, it stimulates it economically, it stimulates it intellectually, and it gives us all passion.
    Bill Nye
    American science communicator, television presenter (1955 - )
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  • Harriet Martineau But is it not the fact that religion emanates from the nature, from the moral state of the individual? Is it not therefore true that unless the nature be completely exercised, the moral state harmonized, the religion cannot be healthy?
    Harriet Martineau
    British writer, social criticus (1802 - 1876)
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  • Bernhard von Bulow But it is a law of life and development in history where two national civilizations meet they fight for ascendancy.
    Bernhard von Bulow
    German diplomat and politician (1849 - 1929)
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  • Barney Frank But it is also clear that left entirely untouched by public policy, the capitalist system will produce more inequality than is socially healthy or than is necessary for maximum efficiency.
    Barney Frank
    American politician (1940 - )
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  • Herman Melville But it is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
    Herman Melville
    American author (1819 - 1891)
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  • Sir Walter Raleigh But it is hard to know them from friends, they are so obsequious and full of protestations; for a wolf resembles a dog, so doth a flatterer a friend.
    Sir Walter Raleigh
    British courtier, writer (1552 - 1618)
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  • Alfred de Vigny But it is the province of religion, of philosophy, of pure poetry only, to go beyond life, beyond time, into eternity.
    Alfred de Vigny
    French poet and writer (1797 - 1863)
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  • Candice Bergen But it was hard to leave because the show's been so important in our lives.
    Candice Bergen
    American actress (1946 - )
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  • Asa Gray But it was soon ascertained that this quaternary matter of the animal body was chemically the same in the plant, was elaborated there, and only appropriated by the animal.
    Asa Gray
    American botanist (1810 - 1888)
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  • Brad Carson But it was very hard for people to separate me out from Hillary Clinton. All their ads were Hillary Clinton, John Kerry, John Edwards, and me. They said I was more liberal than these guys, and that if I went to Washington I'd be supporting their agenda. I found that extremely difficult to overcome.
    Brad Carson
    American lawyer and politician (1967 - )
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  • Bruce Springsteen But it's a sad man my friend who's livin' in his own skin
    And can't stand the company.
    Every fool's got a reason to feelin' sorry for himself
    And turn his heart to stone.
    Tonight this fool's halfway to heaven and just a mile outta hell
    And I feel like I'm comin' home.
    Lucky Town (1992) Better Days
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Armistead Maupin But it's amazing how many people think that gay men should slink off into the shadows when it comes to having friendships with children.
    Armistead Maupin
    American writer (1944 - )
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  • Judith Viorst But it's hard to be hip over thirty when everyone else is nineteen, when the last dance we learned was the Lindy, and the last we heard, girls who looked like Barbara Streisand were trying to do something about it.
    Judith Viorst
    American writer and journalist (1931 - )
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  • Anna Quindlen But it's important, while we are supporting lessons in respecting others, to remember that many of our youngest kids need to learn to respect themselves. You learn your worth from the way you are treated.
    Anna Quindlen
    American author and journalist (1952 - )
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  • Sidonie Gabrielle Colette But just as delicate fare does not stop you from craving for saveloys, so tried and exquisite friendship does not take away your taste for something new and dubious.
    Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
    French writer (1873 - 1954)
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