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  • Aneurin Bevan The worst thing I can say about democracy is that it has tolerated the Right Honorable Gentleman for four and a half years.
    Aneurin Bevan
    British Labor politician (1897 - 1960)
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  • Hillary Clinton The worst thing that can happen in a democracy - as well as in an individual's life - is to become cynical about the future and lose hope.
    Hillary Clinton
    American politician (1947 - )
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  • Ann Macbeth The worst thing that you can do in terms of bringing a product up to the market is to be two days after someone else has brought a similar product to the international market-It's dead.
    Ann Macbeth
    British embroiderer, designer, teacher and author (1875 - 1948)
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg The worst thing you can possibly do is worrying and thinking about what you could have done.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • John Stuart Mill The worth of a State, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it - a State which dwarfs its men, in order that they may be more docile instruments in its hands even for beneficial purposes - will find that with small men no great thing can really be accomplished.
    John Stuart Mill
    English economist (1806 - 1873)
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  • Samuel Johnson The wretched have no compassion, they can do good only from strong principles of duty.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Carson McCullers The writer by nature of his profession is a dreamer and a conscious dreamer. He must imagine, and imagination takes humility, love and great courage. How can you create a character without live and the struggle that goes with love?
    Carson McCullers
    American novelist and poet (1917 - 1967)
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  • Alfred A. Knopf The writer who can't do his job looks to his editor to do it for him, though he won't dream of sharing his royalties with that editor.
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  • Mignon McLaughlin Theatre audiences can't be made to think and cry: at best, they can be made to think and laugh, or to feel and cry.
    The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981)
    Mignon McLaughlin
    American writer, editor (1913 - 1983)
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  • Alan Dundes Their term project consists of a fieldwork collection of folklore that they create by interviewing family members, friends, or anyone they can manage to persuade to serve as an informant.
    Alan Dundes
    American folklorist
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  • André Malraux Then I despair... I remember that all through history, the way of truth and love has always won. There have been murderers and tyrants, and for a time they can seem invincible. But in the end they always fall. Think of it always.
    André Malraux
    French writer and politician (ps. by A. Berger) (1901 - 1976)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Then indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute; What you can do, or dream you can, begin it.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Robert A. Heinlein Theology is never any help; it is searching in a dark cellar at midnight for a black cat that isn't there. Theologians can persuade themselves of anything.
    Robert A. Heinlein
    American science fiction writer (1907 - 1988)
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  • Burton Richter Theorists can create all sorts of theories which go beyond the Standard Model. But there's not one bit of experimental evidence to point out which way you should go.
    Burton Richter
    American physicist (1931 - 2018)
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  • Bruce Springsteen There ain't a note that I play on stage that can't be traced back directly to my mother and father.
    Bruce Springsteen Talking
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Mark Twain There ain't no way to find out why a snorer can't hear himself snore.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Aaron Spelling There are a couple of things that I'm sure people don't think are important, but I do. I don't like hair changes unless there's a reason for it. Clothing - I don't like to see an outfit worn more than one time in an hour - you can wear it again a few weeks later.
    Aaron Spelling
    American film and television (1923 - 2006)
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  • Bianca Walkden There are a lot of kicks out there in taekwondo that are flashy, so I like all of those. My favourite is probably chop because I'm better at it than the others. But I like a good back kick if I can nail it well.
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  • A. Bartlett Giamatti There are a lot of people who know me who can't understand for the life of them why I would got to work on something as unserious as baseball. If they only knew.
    A. Bartlett Giamatti
    American professor and president of Yale University (1938 - 1989)
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  • Bernie Sanders There are a lot of smart honest, progressive people who I think can be good presidents.
    Bernie Sanders
    American politician (1941 - )
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