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  • Bill Viola Emotions are the key to many aspects of life. They are precisely the elements that make human beings human. I think the fact that emotions have been reduced and put off to the side in intellectual work, particularly in the 20th Century, is tragic.
    Bill Viola
    American video artist (1951 - )
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  • Bill Drayton Entrepreneurs almost always have to step out of existing institutions that embody old ways of doing things to build their vision.
    Bill Drayton
    American social entrepreneur
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  • Bing Gordon Even as an 18-year-old, I had to grow comfortable with my leadership style, which is that I was really impatient with under-motivated people - extremely impatient, to the point where I was counterproductive as a manager of underproductive people. And that hasn't really changed. If people need to be motivated, I'm no good.
    Bing Gordon
    American video game executive and technology venture capitalist
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  • Bode Miller Eventually I'd like to have a family. I'd like to not be limping around when I'm 50 years old.
    Bode Miller
    American former World Cup alpine ski racer (1977 - )
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  • Billie Jean King Ever since that day when I was 11 years old, and I wasn't allowed in a photo because I wasn't wearing a tennis skirt, I knew that I wanted to change the sport.
    Billie Jean King
    American tennis player (1943 - )
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  • David Herbert Lawrence Every civilization when it loses its inner vision and its cleaner energy, falls into a new sort of sordidness, more vast and more stupendous than the old savage sort. An Augean stable of metallic filth.
    David Herbert Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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  • Henry David Thoreau Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but religiously follows the new.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Jonathan Swift Every man desires to live long, but no man would be old.
    Thoughts on Various Subjects from Miscellanies (1711-1726)
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • Oscar Wilde Every man of ambition has to fight his century with its own weapons. What this century worships is wealth. The God of this century is wealth. To succeed one must have wealth. At all costs one must have wealth.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Agatha Christie Every murderer is probably somebody's old friend.
    The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1920)
    Agatha Christie
    British writer (1890 - 1976)
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  • Horace Every old poem is sacred.
    Horace
    Roman poet
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  • Jonathan Swift Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • Bill Medley Every so often, if I'm in a melancholy mood, I'll sing 'Desperado' in my shows. I'll sit alone at the piano and play it as a solo. The song feels like an old friend - except now it's saying, 'You were a desperado once, but you worked your way out of it.'
    Bill Medley
    American singer and songwriter (1940 - )
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero Every stage of human life, except the last, is marked out by certain and defined limits; old age alone has no precise and determinate boundary.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Elvis Presley Every time I think that I'm getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.
    Elvis Presley
    American singer, musician, and actor (1935 - 1977)
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  • Desiderius Erasmus Everybody hates a prodigy, detests an old head on young shoulders.
    Desiderius Erasmus
    Dutch humanist and philosopher (1469 - 1536)
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  • Jonathan Swift Everybody wants to live forever, but nobody wants to grow old.
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • Bruce Willis Everybody, no matter how old you are, is around 24, 25 in their heart.
    Bruce Willis
    American actor, producer, and singer (1955 - )
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  • Bobby Sands Everyone, Republican or otherwise, has their own particular part to play. No part is too great or too small; no one is too old or too young to do something.
    Bobby Sands
    Irish activist and IRA member (1954 - 1981)
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  • J. G. Ballard Everything is becoming science fiction. From the margins of an almost invisible literature has sprung the intact reality of the 20th century.
    J. G. Ballard
    British author (1930 - 2009)
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