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  • Butch Trucks Phil Walden had complete faith in us, and I'll respect him forever for that. I think he sunk about $150,000 in us. He was close to bankruptcy a lot of the time, and Atlantic kept telling him we didn't have a chance.
    Butch Trucks
    American musician (1947 - 2017)
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  • Carl von Clausewitz Phillipsburg was the name of one those badly drawn fortresses resembling a fool with his nose too close to the wall.
    On War (1832) Ch. 11
    Carl von Clausewitz
    Prussian general and military theorist (1780 - 1831)
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  • B. Kevin Turner Phones remain a critical component of the Microsoft device portfolio and an important piece of our mobility strategy, but a restructuring is in order.
    B. Kevin Turner
    American businessman (1965 - )
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  • Bill Berry Physically my brain is in great shape. My motor functions are fine, but I think going through the whole ordeal... coming pretty close to death, may have affected my priorities.
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  • George Eliot Play not with paradoxes. That caustic which you handle in order to scorch others may happen to sear your own fingers and make them dead to the quality of things.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Ronald Reagan Politics I supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.
    Ronald Reagan
    American politician and actor (1911 - 2004)
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  • Ronald Reagan Politics is just like show business. You have a hell of an opening, coast for a while, and then have a hell of a close.
    Ronald Reagan
    American politician and actor (1911 - 2004)
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  • Ronald Reagan Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.
    Ronald Reagan
    American politician and actor (1911 - 2004)
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  • Jean Anouilh Poor little men, poor little cocks! As soon as they're old enough, they swell their plumage to be conquerors. If they only knew that it's enough to be just a little bit wounded and sad in order to obtain everything without fighting for it.
    Jean Anouilh
    French playwright (1910 - 1987)
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  • George Orwell Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Walt Whitman Press close bare-bosomed night - press close magnetic nourishing night! Night of south winds! night of the large few stars! Still nodding night! mad naked summer night.
    Walt Whitman
    American poet, essayist, and journalist (1819 - 1892)
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  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge Prose, words in their best order. Poetry, the best words in the best order.
    Samuel Taylor Coleridge
    English poet and critic (1772 - 1834)
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  • Anne Sexton Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard.
    Anne Sexton
    American poet (1928 - 1974)
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  • Gustave Flaubert Read in order to live.
    Gustave Flaubert
    French writer (1821 - 1880)
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  • Beau Willimon Real leaders have to live a paradoxical life, where they must break the rules in order to maintain them. If your expectations are high, you're setting yourself up for disillusionment. The land of governance is paved with gray streets, not black or white ones.
    Beau Willimon
    American playwright and screenwriter (1977 - )
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  • C. S. Lewis Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn Religion always remains higher than everyday life. In order to make the elevation towards religion easier for people, religion must be able to alter its forms in relation to the consciousness of modern man.
    Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn
    Russian Novelist (1918 - 2008)
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  • Willa Cather Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.
    Willa Cather
    American author (1873 - 1947)
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  • Charles Caleb Colton Repartee is perfect when it effects its purpose with a double edge. It is the highest order of wit, as it indicates the coolest yet quickest exercise of genius, at a moment when the passions are roused.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Frank Herbert Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.
    Frank Herbert
    American science fiction writer (1920 - 1986)
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