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  • Henry David Thoreau All voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers or backgammon, with a slight moral tinge to it, a playing with right and wrong.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Audre Lorde All writers have periods when they stop writing, when they cannot write, and this is always painful and terrible because writing is like breathing.
    Audre Lorde
    American writer, feminist, womanist, librarian, and civil (1934 - 1992)
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  • Brian K. Vaughan All writing is the same: It's just making up lies until it starts to sound like the truth. That's what I do.
    Brian K. Vaughan
    American comic book and television writer (1976 - )
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  • Bill Gurley Almost everybody who thinks about local thinks about daily deals, but companies like OpenTable and Zillow and Yelp are all getting their money from the local market.
    Bill Gurley
    American businessman (1966 - )
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  • Busy Philipps Also, this is what a pregnant Busy Philipps does in her free time, I'm taking master fondant cake decorating class with Anna from 'Ace of Cakes' at Duff's Charm City Cakes. It's, like, 4 three-hour classes.
    Busy Philipps
    American actress and writer (1979 - )
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  • Bob Monkhouse Although I have always loved the noise of laughter, I really can't fear the coming of quiet. As for funerals, I rather like them. Such nice things are always said about the deceased, I feel sad that they had to miss hearing it all by just a few days.
    Source: Obituary in The Independent
    Bob Monkhouse
    English entertainer and comedian (1928 - 2003)
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  • Barbara Walters Although I myself don't go to church or synagogue, I do, whether it's superstition or whatever, pray every time I get on a plane. I just automatically do it. I say the same thing every time.
    Barbara Walters
    American journalist and author (1929 - )
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  • Jacob Braude Always behave like a duck - keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil underneath.
    Jacob Braude
     
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  • Edward Dahlberg Always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter. Walt Disney Every decision you make is a mistake.
    Edward Dahlberg
    American novelist, essayist and autobiographer (1900 - 1977)
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  • Sir John Denham Ambition is like love, impatient both of delays and rivals.
    Sir John Denham
    Anglo-Irish poet and courtier (1615 - 1669)
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  • Ben Jonson Ambition, like a torrent, ne'er looks back;
    And is a swelling, and the last affection
    A high mind can put off; being both a rebel
    Unto the soul and reason, and enforceth
    All laws, all conscience, treads upon religion,
    and offereth violence to nature's self.
    Source: Catiline His Conspiracy
    Ben Jonson
    British Dramatist, Poet (1572 - 1637)
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  • David Herbert Lawrence America does to me what I knew it would do: it just bumps me. The people charge at you like trucks coming down on you - no awareness. But one tries to dodge aside in time. Bump! bump! go the trucks. And that is human contact.
    David Herbert Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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  • Brent Scowcroft America has never seen itself as a national state like all others, but rather as an experiment in human freedom and democracy.
    Brent Scowcroft
    American US Air Force officer (1925 - 2020)
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  • Charlotte Bunch America is like an unfaithful love who promises us more than we got.
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  • E. M. Forster America is rather like life. You can usually find in it what you look for. It will probably be interesting, and it is sure to be large.
    E. M. Forster
    English novelist, short story writer, essayist and librettist (1879 - 1970)
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  • Ringo Starr America: It's like Britain, only with buttons.
    Ringo Starr
     
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  • Bill Clinton American and Israel share a special bond. Our relationship is unique among all nations. Like America, Israel is a strong democracy, a symbol of freedom, and an oasis of liberty, a home to the oppressed and persecuted.
    Bill Clinton
    President of the US (1946 - )
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  • Hubert Humphrey American public opinion is like an ocean - it cannot be stirred by a teaspoon.
    Hubert Humphrey
    American politician (1911 - 1978)
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  • Robert Frost Americans are like a rich father who wishes he knew how to give his son the hardships that made him rich.
    Robert Frost
    American poet (1874 - 1963)
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  • Brigitte Bardot Among Muslims, I think there are some who are very good and some hoodlums, like everywhere.
    Brigitte Bardot
    French fashion model, singer and actress (1934 - )
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