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  • Walt Whitman And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero.
    Walt Whitman
    American poet, essayist, and journalist (1819 - 1892)
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  • Alcuin of York And those people should not be listened to who keep saying the voice of the people is the voice of God, since the riotousness of the crowd is always very close to madness.
    Original: Nec audiendi qui solent dicere, vox populi, vox Dei, quum tumultuositas vulgi semper insaniae proxima sit.
    Epistle 127
    Alcuin of York
    English scholar, clergyman and poet
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  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge And though thou notest from thy safe recess old friends burn dim, like lamps in noisome air love them for what they are; nor love them less, because to thee they are not what they were.
    Samuel Taylor Coleridge
    English poet and critic (1772 - 1834)
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  • Barack Obama And we can see the positive impacts right here at Solyndra. Less than a year ago, we were standing on what was an empty lot.But through the Recovery Act, this company received a loan to expand its operations. This new factory is the result of those loans.
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Matthew Arnold And we forget because we must and not because we will.
    Matthew Arnold
    British critic and poet (1822 - 1888)
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  • Aleksander Kwasniewski And we want to develop our strategy to partnership and friendship with the United States, which is connected with a very rich history but what is very important for our future.
    Aleksander Kwasniewski
    Polish politician and journalist (1954 - )
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  • Henry Miller And what is the potential man, after all? Is he not the sum of all that is human? Divine, in other words?
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • Bernard Cornwell And yes, there's a simplicity to writing books because you're not a member of a team, so you make all the decisions yourself instead of deferring to a committee.
    Bernard Cornwell
    British author of historical novels (1944 - )
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  • Billy Ocean And you realise you're doing a public service in making people happy - as a musician you can give people something a doctor, a lawyer, a politician cannot give them that. It's not scientific. It's spiritual - a good feeling. And although you don't know them personally, the audience are like your friends.
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  • Alexander Pope And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but the truth in a masquerade.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Lord George Byron And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but the truth in masquerade.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Allen Klein And, unlike the earlier bombing on the World Trade Center, a major landmark and symbol of the strength of the financial world was, not just damaged but, totally destroyed.
    Allen Klein
    American businessman, music publisher (1931 - 2009)
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  • Buddy Rich And, well of course, Count Basie, and I think all of the black bands of the late thirties and early forties, bands with real players. They had an influence on everybody, not just drummers.
    Buddy Rich
    American jazz drummer and bandleader (1917 - 1987)
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  • Barry Unsworth Angels are not complete, they need their counterparts, the dark needs the bright, the hidden needs the open, and vice versa. Sometimes they meet and recognise each other. Sometimes, as with Horatio and me, the pairing occurs over spaces of time and distance.
    Barry Unsworth
    English writer (1930 - 2012)
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  • Francis Bacon Anger makes dull men witty - but it keeps them poor.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Queen Elizabeth I Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.
    Queen Elizabeth I
    Queen of England and Ireland (1533 - 1603)
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  • Francis Quarles Anger may repast with thee for an hour, but not repose for a night; the continuance of anger is hatred, the continuance of hatred turns malice.
    Francis Quarles
    British poet (1592 - 1644)
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  • George William Curtis Anger, even when it punishes the faults of delinquents, ought not to precede reason as its mistress, but attend as a handmaid at the back of reason, to come to the front when bidden. For once it begins to take control of the mind, it calls just what it does cruelly.
    George William Curtis
    American journalist (1824 - 1892)
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  • Seneca Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Audre Lorde Anger, used, does not destroy. Hatred does.
    Audre Lorde
    American writer, feminist, womanist, librarian, and civil (1934 - 1992)
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