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  • Bernie Sanders Hillary Clinton understands that we have to invest in education and jobs for our young people, not more jails or incarceration.
    Bernie Sanders
    American politician (1941 - )
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  • Busta Rhymes Hip-hop reflects the truth, and the problem is that hip-hop exposes a lot of the negative truth that society tries to conceal. It's a platform where we could offer information, but it's also an escape.
    Busta Rhymes
    American rapper, musician, record producer and actor (1972 - )
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  • Ben Horowitz Hire sales people who are really smart problem solvers, but lack courage, hunger and competitiveness, and your company will go out of business.
    Ben Horowitz
    American businessman, investor, blogger, and author (1966 - )
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  • Bridget Riley His failures are as valuable as his successes: by misjudging one thing he conforms something else, even if at the time he does not know what that something else is.
    Bridget Riley
    English painter (1931 - )
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  • A. E. Housman His folly has not fellow
    Beneath the blue of day
    That gives to man or woman
    His heart and soul away.
    A Shropshire Lad (1896) No. 14, st. 3
    A. E. Housman
    British poet (1859 - 1936)
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  • Sir William Watson His friends he loved. His direst earthly foes - cats - I believe he did but feign to hate. My hand will miss the insinuated nose, mine eyes the tail that wagg'd contempt at Fate.
    Sir William Watson
    English poet (1858 - 1935)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson His heart was as great as the world, but there was no room in it to hold the memory of a wrong.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Anne Bronte His heart was like a sensitive plant, that opens for a moment in the sunshine, but curls up and shrinks into itself at the slightest touch of the finger, or the lightest breath of wind.
    Anne Bronte
    British writer (1820 - 1849)
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  • Algernon H. Blackwood His imagination conceived and bore - worlds; but nothing in these worlds became alive until he discovered its true and living name. The name was the breath of life; and, sooner or later, he invariably found it.
    Algernon H. Blackwood
    English broadcasting narrator, journalist and writer (1869 - 1951)
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  • Sir James Matthew Barrie His lordship may compel us to be equal upstairs, but there will never be equality in the servants hall.
    Sir James Matthew Barrie
    British playwright (1860 - 1937)
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  • John B. Gough His reputation is what men say he is. That can be damaged; but reputation is for time, character is for eternity.
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  • Buddha His success may be great, but be it ever so great the wheel of fortune may turn again and bring him down into the dust.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • Sir Walter Raleigh Historians desiring to write the actions of men, ought to set down the simple truth, and not say anything for love or hatred; also to choose such an opportunity for writing as it may be lawful to think what they will, and write what they think, which is a rare happiness of the time.
    Sir Walter Raleigh
    British courtier, writer (1552 - 1618)
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  • Abdallah II Historic changes and challenges. Breakthroughs in human knowledge and opportunity. And yet, for vast numbers across the globe, the daily realities have not altered.
    Abdallah II
    Jordan King (1962 - )
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  • Billy Joel Historically, musicians know what it is like to be outside the norm - walking the high wire without a safety net. Our experience is not so different from those who march to the beat of different drummers.
    Billy Joel
    American singer-songwriter and pianist (1949 - )
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  • Ben Shapiro Historically, professors have defended tenure as a way to protect their individualistic thought. But tenure can also be used as a club to wield against the powerless.
    Ben Shapiro
    American conservative political commentator and attorney (1984 - )
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  • Blake Farenthold Historically, the Justice Department has been Congress' ally in fighting wrongdoing in government, but under this Justice Department and Eric Holder, rather than being the people's attorney, Eric Holder sees himself as the president's attorney and he'll do anything to defend the president.
    Blake Farenthold
    American politician and lobbyist (1961 - )
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  • Dwight D. Eisenhower History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.
    Dwight D. Eisenhower
    American president (1890 - 1969)
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  • Alan Greenspan History has not dealt kindly with the aftermath of protracted periods of low risk premiums.
    Alan Greenspan
    American economist (1926 - )
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  • Augustine Birrell History is a pageant and not a philosophy.
    Orbiter dicta
    Augustine Birrell
    British Liberal Party politician (1850 - 1933)
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