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  • Les Brown Take action in order to move toward your goals.
    Les Brown
    American motivational speaker, author and radio DJ (1945 - )
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  • Bob Beauprez Terri's death brings to a close a very tragic, human and personal event that has left everyone with a feeling of emptiness, regardless of what side of the issue you may have been on.
    Bob Beauprez
    American politician and member (1948 - )
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  • Hunter S. Thompson That was always the difference between Muhammad Ali and the rest of us. He came, he saw, and if he didn't entirely conquer - he came as close as anybody we are likely to see in the lifetime of this doomed generation.
    Hunter S. Thompson
    American journalist (1937 - 2005)
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  • Napoleon The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely.
    Napoleon
    French Emperor (1769 - 1821)
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  • Alfred N. Whitehead The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order.
    Alfred N. Whitehead
    English philosopher and mathematician (1861 - 1947)
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  • Willem De Kooning The attitude that nature is chaotic and that the artist puts order into it is a very absurd point of view, I think. All that we can hope for is to put some order into ourselves.
    Willem De Kooning
    Dutch-American painter (1904 - 1997)
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  • Carter G. Woodson The author takes the position that the consumer pays the tax, and as such every individual of the social order should be given unlimited opportunity to make the most of himself.
    Carter G. Woodson
    American historian, author and journalist (1875 - 1950)
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  • Bob Barr The average American returning from a trip abroad likely - and understandably - assumes the contents of his or her electronic device does not come close to meeting the threshold of 'criminal' activity, such as would give a government agent the right to seize and peruse their iPad just because they are returning from a vacation.
    Bob Barr
    American attorney and politician (1948 - )
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  • Adrian Smith The band has always stayed close to its fans and not sold out. That's a very rare thing. I can see how rare that is having been outside of the band for eight years. Maiden has integrity. I think people appreciate that.
    Adrian Smith
    English guitarist and pianist (1957 - )
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  • Scott Alexander The basic rule of free enterprise: You must give in order to get.
    Scott Alexander
    American professional baseball pitcher (1989 - )
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  • Barry Ritholtz The beauty of diversification is it's about as close as you can get to a free lunch in investing.
    Barry Ritholtz
    American author and newspaper columnist
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  • James Kelman The beauty of prose fiction that I see is simply that in order to create something you need only pay attention to personal exigency.
    James Kelman
    Scottish writer (1946 - )
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  • Giordano Bruno The beginning, middle, and end of the birth, growth, and perfection of whatever we behold is from contraries, by contraries, and to contraries; and whatever contrariety is, there is action and reaction, there is motion, diversity, multitude, and order, there are degrees, succession and vicissitude.
    Giordano Bruno
    Italian philosopher and priest (1548 - 1600)
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  • Leonard Cohen The blizzard of the world has crossed the threshold and it's overturned the order of the soul...
    Leonard Cohen
    Canadian-born American Musician, Songwriter, Singer (1934 - 2016)
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  • Archibald Macleish The business of the law is to make sense of the confusion of what we call human life - to reduce it to order but at the same time to give it possibility, scope, even dignity.
    Archibald Macleish
    American poet (1892 - 1982)
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  • John Berger The camera relieves us of the burden of memory. It surveys us like God, and it surveys for us. Yet no other god has been so cynical, for the camera records in order to forget.
    John Berger
    English art critic, novelist, painter and poet (1926 - 2017)
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  • Auberon Herbert The career of a politician mainly consists in making one part of the nation do what it does not want to do, in order to please and satisfy the other part of the nation.
    Auberon Herbert
    British writer, theorist, philosopher
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  • Alan Dundes The class has become over the years fairly large, running to three hundred or more, but I always insist upon reading all the student folklore collections myself. Although this is a tall order, I look forward to it because I learn so much from it.
    Alan Dundes
    American folklorist
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  • Socrates The comic and the tragic lie inseparably close, like light and shadow.
    Socrates
    Greek philosopher (469 - 399)
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  • Thornton Wilder The comic spirit is given to us in order that we may analyze, weigh, and clarify things in us which nettle us, or which we are outgrowing, or trying to reshape.
    Thornton Wilder
    American writer and playwright (1897 - 1975)
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