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  • Robert Louis Stevenson For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move; to feel the needs and hitches of our life more nearly; to come down off this feather-bed of civilization, and find the globe granite underfoot and strewn with cutting flints.
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    Scottish writer and poet (1850 - 1894)
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  • Barbara Mandrell For the next approximately three years, I have got Nathan to take care of. I know that once he graduates from high school, he will be off doing whatever it is he is going to be doing - probably playing ice hockey.
    Barbara Mandrell
    American country music singer, musician, and actress (1948 - )
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  • Bertolt Brecht For the villainy of the world is great, and a man has to run his legs off to keep them from being stolen out fom underneath him.
    Bertolt Brecht
    German - Austrian writer (1898 - 1956)
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  • Camille Paglia Freud says, Man fears that his strength will be taken from him by woman, dreads becoming infected with her femininity and then proving himself a weakling. Masculinity must fight off effeminacy day by day. Woman and nature stand ever ready to reduce the male to boy and infant.
    Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • St. Francis de Sales Friendships begun in this world will be taken up again, never to be broken off.
    St. Francis de Sales
    Bishop of Geneva and is honored as a saint in the Catholic Church (1567 - 1622)
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  • Hannah More Genius without religion is only a lamp on the outer gate of a palace; it may serve to cast a gleam of light on those that are without, while the inhabitant sits in darkness.
    Hannah More
    British Writer, Reformer, Philanthropist (1745 - 1833)
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  • Alcee Hastings Given the fact that most religions share basic values, it is most unfortunate that religious people can be played off against each other so easily. One possible reason for this may be that people do not know enough about other people's beliefs.
    Alcee Hastings
    American politician (1936 - )
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  • John Webster Glories, like glow-worms, afar off shine bright, but looking to near, have neither heat not light.
    John Webster
    English dramatist (1580 - 1634)
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  • Bethany Hamilton God will give us the strength to be able to handle things. I mean, you can try to do it on your own, and sometimes you can pull off some stuff, but in the long run, it's much easier with Him by our side.
    Bethany Hamilton
    American professional surfer (1990 - )
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  • Alexander Pope Good God! how often are we to die before we go quite off this stage? In every friend we lose a part of ourselves, and the best part.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Ayn Rand Government "help" to business is just as disastrous as government persecution... the only way a government can be of service to national prosperity is by keeping its hands off.
    Ayn Rand
    Russian Writer, Philosopher (1905 - 1982)
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  • Bill Shuster Government spending is being restrained, the economy is making progress and moving forward, and the pro-growth, tax cutting policies put in place have allowed businesses to grow, which has brought in additional tax revenue to help pay off the debt.
    Bill Shuster
    American politician and lobbyist (1961 - )
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  • Zora Neale Hurston Grab the broom of anger and drive off the beast of fear.
    Zora Neale Hurston
    American novelist, short story writer, folklorist and anthropologist (1891 - 1960)
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  • Banksy Graffiti's always been a temporary art form. You make your mark and then they scrub it off.
    Banksy
    England-based anonymous street artist and political activist
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  • E. M. Cioran Great persecutors are recruited among martyrs whose heads haven't been cut off.
    E. M. Cioran
    French-Romanian philosopher (1911 - 1995)
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  • Carl Gustav Jung Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off.
    Psychological reflections: an anthology of the writings of C. G. Jung (1961)
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Chris Patten Green politics at its worst amounts to a sort of Zen fascism; less extreme, it denounces growth and seeks to stop the world so that we can all get off.
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  • Bette Midler Group conformity scares the pants off me because it's so often a prelude to cruelty towards anyone who doesn't want to - or can't - join the Big Parade.
    Bette Midler
    American singer, songwriter, actress and comedian (1945 - )
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  • Barbara Hepworth Half-way through any work, one is often tempted to go off on a tangent. Once you have yielded, you will be tempted to yield again and again.... Finally, you would only produce something hybrid...
    Barbara Hepworth
    English artist and sculptor (1903 - 1975)
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  • Barbara Hepworth Halfway through any work, one is often tempted to go off on a tangent. Once you have yielded, you will be tempted to yield again and again... Finally, you would only produce something hybrid.
    Barbara Hepworth
    English artist and sculptor (1903 - 1975)
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