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  • Brit Hume Television has certain imperatives that CNN had the luxury of ignoring for a long period of time. CNN could take the position that the news would be the star, because in most of the programming day, they were the only all-news operation on the air.
    Brit Hume
    American journalist and political commentator (1943 - )
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  • Francis Bacon That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson That which we call character is a reserved force which acts directly by presence, and without means. It is conceived of as a certain undemonstrable force, a familiar or genius, by whose impulses the man is guided, but whose counsels he cannot impart.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Bruce Springsteen That you know flag flying over the courthouse
    Means certain things are set in stone
    Who we are, what we'll do and what we won't.
    Magic (2007) Long Walk Home
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Bob Mould The blues is something separate from what I do. They connect at certain spots, but blues is different. I wouldn't put it in with what my career has been. That would be a whole separate wing.
    Bob Mould
    American musician (1960 - )
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  • Christian Nevell Bovee The busiest of living agents are certain dead men's thoughts.
    Christian Nevell Bovee
    American writer
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  • Bob McDonnell The citizens must be certain that the governor is attending to the duties for which he was elected.
    Bob McDonnell
    American politician and lawyer (1954 - )
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  • Paul De Man The critical method which denies literary modernity would appear - and even, in certain respects, would be - the most modern of critical movements.
    Paul De Man
    In Belgiƫ geboren American literair criticus (1919 - 1983)
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  • Pete Sampras The difference of great players is at a certain point in a match they raise their level of play and maintain it. Lesser players play great for a set, but then less.
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  • Carter G. Woodson The different ness of races, moreover, is no evidence of superiority or of inferiority. This merely indicates that each race has certain gifts which the others do not possess.
    Carter G. Woodson
    American historian, author and journalist (1875 - 1950)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The eloquent man is he who is no eloquent speaker, but who is inwardly drunk with a certain belief.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Henry James The face of nature and civilization in this our country is to a certain point a very sufficient literary field. But it will yield its secrets only to a really grasping imagination. To write well and worthily of American things one need even more than elsewhere to be a master.
    Henry James
    American author (1843 - 1916)
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  • Albert Einstein The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The German intellect wants the French sprightliness, the fine practical understanding of the English, and the American adventure; but it has a certain probity, which never rests in a superficial performance, but asks steadily, To what end? A German public asks for a controlling sincerity.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Caitriona Balfe The herbalist I met a few times - it was great - she gave me literature about the different processes that an herbalist would do to make medicines from certain herbs and things.
    Caitriona Balfe
    Irish actress, producer and former (1979 - )
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  • Ben Kingsley The hierarchy of class in London was rigid. It was like a religion. It still is to a certain extent.
    Ben Kingsley
    English actor (1943 - )
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  • Carl Sandburg The impact of television on our culture is... indescribable. There's a certain sense in which it is nearly as important as the invention of printing.
    Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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  • George Orwell The intellectual is different from the ordinary man, but only in certain sections of his personality, and even then not all the time.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Barry Levinson The interesting thing about movies, it's not always - y'know, you have to have structure etc and all those things, but an audience responds, in many ways, we walk away and certain things stay in our heads that are memorable.
    Barry Levinson
    American filmmaker, screenwriter, and actor (1942 - )
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche The invalid is a parasite on society. In a certain state it is indecent to go on living. To vegetate on in cowardly dependence on physicians and medicaments after the meaning of life, the right to life, has been lost ought to entail the profound contempt of society.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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