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  • Bruce Hornsby While housing discrimination and segregation in 2005 still affect millions of people, that's not the way it has to be. Some things can change and should.
    Bruce Hornsby
    American singer-songwriter and pianist (1954 - )
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  • Richard Buckminster Fuller While no politician or political system can ever afford to yield understandably and enthusiastically to their adversaries and opposers, all politicians can and will yield enthusiastically to the computers safe flight-controlling capabilities in bringing all of humanity in for a happy landing.
    Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth (1963)
    Richard Buckminster Fuller
    American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, and inventor (1895 - 1983)
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  • Bill Condon While that wasn't first and foremost in my mind, you can't get into this without being struck, on one side, by how far we've come, and then the other side, by how little things have changed.
    Bill Condon
    American director and screenwriter (1955 - )
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  • Vladimir Ilyich Lenin While the State exists there can be no freedom; when there is freedom there will be no State.
    Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
    Russian revolutionary leader (1870 - 1924)
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  • Carol Bellamy While the technology revolution has yet to reach far into the households of those in developing countries, this is certainly another area where more developed countries can assist those in the less developed world.
    Carol Bellamy
    American nonprofit executive (1942 - )
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  • James Joyce While you have a thing it can be taken from you... but when you give it, you have given it. No robber can take it from you. It is yours then for ever when you have given it. It will be yours always. That is to give.
    James Joyce
    Irish writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Bobby Fischer White can always play differently, in which case he merely loses differently.
    On his eponymous defense to the Kings Gambit. A bust to the Kings Gambit (1960)
    Bobby Fischer
    American chess grandmaster (1943 - 2008)
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  • Bobby Darin Who am I that I have to sing under an umbrella? These people are my fans, and if they can stand in the rain to hear me sing, I can stand in the rain.
    Bobby Darin
    American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, impressionist, and actor (1936 - 1973)
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  • William Shakespeare Who can be patient in extremes?
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Oliver Goldsmith Who can direct when all pretend to know?
    Oliver Goldsmith
    Irish writer and poet (1728 - 1774)
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  • Henry van Dyke Who can explain the secret pathos of Nature's loveliness? It is a touch of melancholy inherited from our mother Eve. It is an unconscious memory of the lost Paradise. It is the sense that even if we should find another Eden, we would not be fit to enjoy it perfectly nor stay in it forever.
    Henry van Dyke
    American Protestant Clergyman and Writer (1852 - 1933)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Who can guess how much industry and providence and affection we have caught from the pantomime of brutes?
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • St. Augustine of Hippo Who can map out the various forces at play in one soul? Man is a great depth, O Lord. The hairs of his head are easier by far to count than his feeling, the movements of his heart.
    St. Augustine of Hippo
    Roman African Christian theologian and philosopher (354 - 430)
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  • Bartholomew Dowling Who dreads to the dust returning?
    Who shrinks from the sable shore,
    Where the high and haughty yearning
    Of the soul can sting no more?
    The Revel: Time of the Famine and Plague in India, reported in Bartletts Familiar Quotations, 10th ed.
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  • Johann Kaspar Lavater Who in the same given time can produce more than others has vigor; who can produce more and better, has talents; who can produce what none else can, has genius.
    Johann Kaspar Lavater
    Swiss theologist and mysticist (1741 - 1801)
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  • Babe Ruth Who is richer? The man who is seen, but cannot see? Or the man who is not being seen, but can see?
    Babe Ruth
    American professional baseball player (1895 - 1948)
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  • William Shakespeare Who is so firm that can't be seduced?
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Who is sure of their own motives can in confidence advance or retreat.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Basil Bunting Who says it's poetry, anyhow?
    My ten year old
    can do it and rhyme.
    Mr Hines says so, and he's a schoolteacher,
    he ought to know.
    Go and find work
    Odes What The Chairman Told Tom, II:6
    Basil Bunting
    British poet (1900 - 1985)
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  • William Mcilvanney Who thinks the law has anything to do with justice? It's what we have because we can't have justice.
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