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  • Barack Obama In fact, the best thing we could do on taxes for all Americans is to simplify the individual tax code. This will be a tough job, but members of both parties have expressed an interest in doing this, and I am prepared to join them.
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • John B. S. Haldane In fact, words are well adapted for description and the arousing of emotion, but for many kinds of precise thought other symbols are much better.
    John B. S. Haldane
    British scientist, writer (1892 - 1964)
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  • Alexander the Great In faith and hope the world will disagree, But all mankind's concern is charity.
    Alexander the Great
    Macedonian king (352 - 323)
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  • Alfred N. Whitehead In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat, but in the evolution of real knowledge it marks the first step in progress toward a victory.
    Alfred N. Whitehead
    English philosopher and mathematician (1861 - 1947)
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  • Alan Parsons In France, you can sell a lot, but nobody outside of France ever hears of it.
    Alan Parsons
    English audio engineer, songwriter, musician (1948 - )
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  • Lord George Byron In general I do not draw well with literary men - not that I dislike them but I never know what to say to them after I have praised their last publication.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Ben Carson In general I was a good kid. It usually took a lot to make me mad. But once I reached the boiling point, I lost all rational control. Totally without thinking, when my anger was aroused, I grabbed the nearest brick, rock, or stick to bash someone. It was as if I had no conscious will in the matter.
    Ben Carson
    American politician, and author (1951 - )
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  • Bill Haslam In general, everybody should admit the world is changing really fast, and it's hard for the conversations to keep up. I mean, it's hard to remember now, but when Barack Obama ran for president, he was against gay marriage.
    Bill Haslam
    American businessman and politician (1958 - )
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  • John Barrymore In Genesis, it says that it is not good for a man to be alone; but sometimes it is a great relief.
    John Barrymore
    American actor (1882 - 1942)
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  • Carol P. Christ In Goddess religion death is not feared, but is understood to be a part of life, followed by birth and renewal.
    Carol P. Christ
    American feminist historian and author (1945 - )
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  • Bela Karolyi In gymnastics, smaller will always be better in many ways. The stress in the head, that will be the same for all. But the stress on the body and the concussions it must endure, that will always be easier for the little ones.
    Bela Karolyi
    American gymnastics coach (1942 - )
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  • Barry Marshall In high school I had B's and C's, not too many A's, but I must have done well on that medical school test, and I must have had some charisma in the interview, so I ended up in medicine. Being a general practitioner was all I aspired to.
    Barry Marshall
    Australian physician, Nobel Prize Laureate in Physiology (1951 - )
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  • Camille Paglia In high school in the early Sixties, I dreamed of intellectual work by women that would match the highest male standards and set men on their ear. A lot of women have done a lot of academic work since then, but most of them fall short of that standard.
    Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Will Rogers In Hollywood the woods are full of people that learned to write but evidently can't read. If they could read their stuff, they'd stop writing.
    Will Rogers
    American actor and humorist (1879 - 1935)
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  • Carlo Rubbia In Italy there's perhaps a little less space than in Spain, but there's certainly as much sunshine.
    Carlo Rubbia
    Italian physicist and inventor (1934 - )
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  • Bill Murray In Japan, you have no idea what they are saying, and they can't help you either. Nothing makes any sense. They're very polite, but you feel like a joke is being played on you the entire time you're there.
    Bill Murray
    American actor, comedian, and writer (1950 - )
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  • Bruce Lee In Jeet Kune Do, it's not how much you have learned, but how much you have absorbed from what you have learned. It is not how much fixed knowledge you can accumulate, but what you can apply livingly that counts. 'Being' is more valued than doing.
    The Warrior Within : The Philosophies of Bruce Lee (1996)
    Bruce Lee
    Chinese-American Actor, Director, Author, Martial Artist (1940 - 1973)
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  • Bruce Eric Kaplan In L.A., you can put out a craft-service table anywhere, and it's no big deal. But in New York, people who walk by it on the street get really angry about it.
    Bruce Eric Kaplan
    American cartoonist
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  • Samuel Butler In law, nothing is certain but the expense.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Alberto Moravia In life there are no problems, that is, objective and external choices; there is only the life which we do not resolve as a problem but which we live as an experience, whatever the final result may be.
    Alberto Moravia
    Italian writer (ps. by Alberto Pincherle) (1907 - 1990)
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