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  • Anthony Holden But, of course, she didn't mean that she was going to retire from public life and only when the Queen removed her HRH some years later did she actually drop a hundred charities and just kept five.
    Anthony Holden
    English writer, broadcaster and critic
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  • Audre Lorde But, on the other hand, I get bored with racism too and recognize that there are still many things to be said about a Black person and a White person loving each other in a racist society.
    Audre Lorde
    American writer, feminist, womanist, librarian, and civil (1934 - 1992)
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  • A. E. van Vogt But, somewhere in there, I did have the thought that this really fits in with my thinking about what I wanted to do; with what has to be done by a writer in order to stay alive as a writer.
    A. E. van Vogt
    Canadian-born science fiction author (1912 - 2000)
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  • John Maynard Keynes But, soon or late, it is ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or evil.
    The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money (1936) ch. 24
    John Maynard Keynes
    British economist (1883 - 1946)
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  • Arthur Rimbaud But, truly, I have wept too much! The Dawns are heartbreaking. Every moon is atrocious and every sun bitter.
    Arthur Rimbaud
    French poet (1854 - 1891)
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  • Buddy Rich But, when you have to resort to turntables, trick lights, flashing lights, fire and all that, you're actually saying, I need this because what I do is not all that together.
    Buddy Rich
    American jazz drummer and bandleader (1917 - 1987)
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  • Bruce Johnston But, you know again, getting back to what a group like ours might represent - the cleanliness thing.
    Bruce Johnston
    American singer, songwriter (1942 - )
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  • Ben Carson But, you know, we have these entrenched entities - and I'm talking about both Republicans and Democrats - who believe that when you're elected to office, you become some kind of member of the aristocracy, and that anyone who challenges you is attacking you and is unpatriotic. This is foolishness.
    Ben Carson
    American politician, and author (1951 - )
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  • Camille Paglia Butchery is not the point of vampirism. Sex - domination and submission - is.
    Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Lord Chesterfield Buy good books, and read them; the best books are the commonest, and the last editions are always the best, if the editors are not blockheads.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Barbara Corcoran Buy with your heart, not your head. You can look at all the aspects that make a purchase practical, but that kind of thinking makes it an investment rather than a home.
    Barbara Corcoran
    American businesswoman, investor, speaker and consultant (1949 - )
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  • Burt Rutan By 1931, after a few years' experience of flying scheduled airlines, those planes were operating at roughly 600 times the safety of the space shuttle. I look at safety not in terms of fatalities per passenger-mile, but when you get in and close the door, what is the risk of dying on this flight?
    Burt Rutan
    American aerospace engineer and entrepreneur (1943 - )
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  • Richard Buckminster Fuller By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.
    Richard Buckminster Fuller
    American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, and inventor (1895 - 1983)
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  • Brad Feld By 2002, I realized that what was classically called a rollup strategy was not generally effective, at least not for me.
    Brad Feld
    American entrepreneur, and author
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  • John Kenneth Galbraith By all but the pathologically romantic, it is now recognized that this is not the age of the small man.
    John Kenneth Galbraith
    American economist (1908 - 2006)
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  • Anne Morrow Lindbergh By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class.
    Anne Morrow Lindbergh
    American Author (1906 - 2001)
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  • Henry David Thoreau By avarice and selfishness, and a groveling habit, from which none of us is free, of regarding the soil as property, or the means of acquiring property chiefly, the landscape is deformed, husbandry is degraded with us, and the farmer leads the meanest of lives. He knows Nature but as a robber.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Nikos Kazantzakis By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.
    Nikos Kazantzakis
    Greek writer (1883 - 1957)
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  • Bruno Walter By concentrating on precision, one arrives at technique, but by concentrating on technique one does not arrive at precision.
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  • Albert Camus By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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