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  • Walt Whitman I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences.
    Walt Whitman
    American poet, essayist, and journalist (1819 - 1892)
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  • Marguerite Duras I see journalists as the manual workers, the laborers of the word. Journalism can only be literature when it is passionate.
    Marguerite Duras
    French author and filmmaker (1914 - 1996)
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  • Aaliyah I see myself as sexy. If you are comfortable with it, it can be very classy and appealing.
    Aaliyah
    American singer, actress and model (1979 - 2001)
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  • Junot Diaz I seem to have to make my characters family before I can access their hearts in any way that matters.
    Junot Diaz
    Dominican-American writer (1968 - )
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  • Andrew Carnegie I shall argue that strong men, conversely, know when to compromise and that all principles can be compromised to serve a greater principle.
    Andrew Carnegie
    American industrialist (1835 - 1919)
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  • Anne Frank I simply can't build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death... I think... peace and tranquillity will return again.
    Anne Frank
    Jewish refugee and writer (1929 - 1945)
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  • Langston Hughes I swear to the Lord, I still can't see, why Democracy means, everybody but me.
    Langston Hughes
    American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright and columnist (1901 - 1967)
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  • Adam Osborne I take what I see work. I'm a strict believer in the scientific principle of believing nothing, only taking the best evidence available at the present time, interpreting it as best you can, and leaving your mind open to the fact that new evidence will appear tomorrow.
    Adam Osborne
    British-American author and publisher (1939 - 2003)
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  • George Bernard Shaw I tell you that as long as I can conceive something better than myself I cannot be easy unless I am striving to bring it into existence or clearing the way for it.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Carl Sandburg I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes, so live not in your yesterdays, no just for tomorrow, but in the here and now. Keep moving and forget the post mortems; and remember, no one can get the jump on the future.
    Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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  • George Eliot I tell you there isn't a thing under the sun that needs to be done at all, but what a man can do better than a woman, unless it's bearing children, and they do that in a poor make-shift way; it had better ha been left to the men.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Bryan Cogman I tend to write the episodes in the middle of the season, which can be a challenge because you've got to balance all these threads that have begun - and also make sure they will make sense with the overall plan going forward.
    Bryan Cogman
    American writer and producer (1979 - )
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  • Peter Ackroyd I think biography can be more personal than fiction, and certainly can be more expressive.
    Peter Ackroyd
    English biographer, novelist and critic (1949 - )
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  • Jose Manuel Barroso I think diversity can also be a resource, an asset, especially in a world that is becoming globalized, to deal with difference, to deal with variety, to deal with complexity.
    Jose Manuel Barroso
    Portuguese politician (1956 - )
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  • Bryn Terfel I think every singer should be able to jump in for a singer who has been sick, for instance, and learn an opera in two days. I know people who can do it.
    Bryn Terfel
    Welsh bass-baritone opera singer (1965 - )
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  • Adela Rogers St. Johns I think every woman's entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
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  • Jean Rostand I think I am one of those who can manage not to take on a completely different appearance under their own glance.
    Jean Rostand
    French writer (1894 - 1977)
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  • Philip Roth I think I write or publish as much as I do because I can bear being without a book to work on.
    Philip Roth
    American Novelist (1933 - 2018)
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  • Sebastian Faulks I think if any song can touch the heart, then one should value it.
    Sebastian Faulks
    British novelist, journalist and broadcaster (1953 - )
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  • Tiger Woods I think it's an honor to be a role model to one person or maybe more than that. If you are given a chance to be a role model, I think you should always take it because you can influence a person's life in a positive light, and that's what I want to do. That's what it's all about.
    Tiger Woods
    American professional golfer (1975 - )
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