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  • Gore Vidal Sex is. There is nothing more to be done about it. Sex builds no roads, writes no novels and sex certainly gives no meaning to anything in life but itself.
    Gore Vidal
    American writer and criticus (1925 - 2012)
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  • Benjamin Franklin So much for industry, my friends, and attention to one's own business; but to these we must add frugality if we would make our industry more certainly successful. A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose all his life to the grindstone, and die not worth a grout at last.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Herman Melville Some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us so little for evermore, the poor fellows ought to be indulged.
    Herman Melville
    American author (1819 - 1891)
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  • Albert J. Nock Someone asked me years ago if it were true that I disliked Jews, and I replied that it was certainly true, not at all because they are Jews but because they are folks, and I don't like folks.
    Albert J. Nock
    American libertarian author (1870 - 1945)
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  • Buzz Osborne Stupidity knows no bounds and certainly no city limits, but by and large, 99 percent of the people who come to Melvins shows seem to be relatively well behaved... I'm happy and relieved by this.
    Buzz Osborne
    American guitarist, vocalist and songwriter (1964 - )
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  • Arthur Peacocke Such an emphasis on the immanence of God as Creator in, with, and under the natural processes of the world unveiled by the sciences is certainly in accord with all that the sciences have revealed since those debates of the nineteenth century.
    Arthur Peacocke
    English Anglican theologian and biochemist (1924 - 2006)
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  • A. R. Ammons That's a wonderful change that's taken place, and so most poetry today is published, if not directly by the person, certainly by the enterprise of the poet himself, working with his friends.
    A. R. Ammons
    American poet (1926 - 2001)
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  • Benjamin Tucker The Anarchists most certainly believe in the Church; only they insist that all its work shall be purely voluntary, and that its discoveries and achievements, however beneficial, shall not be imposed upon the individual by authority.
    Individual Liberty
    Benjamin Tucker
    American anarchist and socialist (1854 - 1939)
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  • Carlisle Floyd The artist is something of an outsider in America. I have always felt that America does not value its artists, certainly not in the sense that the Europeans do.
    Carlisle Floyd
    American opera composer
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  • H.G. Wells The doctrine of the Kingdom of Heaven, which was the main teaching of Jesus, is certainly one of the most revolutionary doctrines that ever stirred and changed human thought.
    H.G. Wells
    British-born American author (1866 - 1946)
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  • Brad Falchuk The East Coast, and certainly Boston, has a provincial quality to it that makes it harder to bust out and move up. Try to be too different and they'll pull you down.
    Brad Falchuk
    American television writer, director, and producer (1971 - )
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  • Carine Roitfeld The fashion industry certainly has its obscene sides. The cost of a coat can be obscene. So can the cost of a photo shoot if you're working with a really good photographer.
    Carine Roitfeld
    French fashion editor (1954 - )
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  • Charlotte Perkins Gilman The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses.
    Charlotte Perkins Gilman
    American feminist, sociologist, novelist, writer and poet (1860 - 1935)
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  • Annie Dillard The painter... does not fit the paints to the world. He most certainly does not fit the world to himself. He fits himself to the paint. The self is the servant who bears the paintbox and its inherited contents.
    Annie Dillard
    American author (1945 - )
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  • Brit Hume The president's poking fun at himself over what goes down. I thought it was a good-natured performance. It made him look good. But he certainly doesn't disguise the record on weapons of mass destruction. And you feel like saying to people, Just get over it.
    Brit Hume
    American journalist and political commentator (1943 - )
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  • Margaret Mitchell The south produced statesmen and soldiers, planters and doctors and lawyers and poets, but certainly no engineers and mechanics. Let Yankees adopt such low callings. [Gone With The Wind]
    Margaret Mitchell
    American writer (1900 - 1949)
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  • Barry Larkin The stance I took was there is no room for racial bias anywhere in sports. I believe that was basically all I said about it. Certainly I was cast as an abolitionist. Death threats came. Hate mail came.
    Barry Larkin
    American baseball player (1964 - )
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  • Jane Austen There are certainly are not so many men of large fortune in the world as there are of pretty woman to deserve them.
    Jane Austen
    English writer (1775 - 1817)
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  • Carol Shields There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud.
    De stenen dagboeken (2008) 82
    Carol Shields
    American-born Canadian novelist (1935 - 2003)
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  • Bruce Forsyth There are enough tears in any child's life; we certainly don't need to add to them in the name of entertainment.
    Bruce Forsyth
    British presenter, actor, comedian, singer, dancer and screenwriter (1928 - 2017)
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