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  • Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh The process of meditation does not take you to some new world; it only introduces you to the world where you have been for lives upon lives. The process of meditation does not add anything to you; it only takes away what is wrong, cuts it away, sheds it off.
    Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
    Indian godman and mystic (1931 - 1990)
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  • Billy Evans The public wouldn't like the perfect umpire in every game. It would kill off baseball's greatest alibi - 'We was robbed.'
    Billy Evans
    American umpire in Major League Baseball (1884 - )
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  • Cam Newton The quarterback is an extension of the coach and has a certain type of swagger mentality, on and off the field.
    Cam Newton
    American football player (1989 - )
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  • Carl Rowan The Reagan Administration has fostered a climate in which a barest majority of the Supreme Court caters to the passions and hatreds of the American mob, stripping away the constitutional shield outside our bedrooms.... How tragically ironic that an Administration that promised to get Government off our backs is now so active in draping Government gumshoes over every part of our anatomies.
    Carl Rowan
    American government official, journalist and author (1925 - 2000)
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  • Ben Bradlee The really tough thing would have been to decide to take Woodward and Bernstein off the story. They were carrying the coal for us - in that their stories were right.
    Ben Bradlee
    American journalist (1921 - 2014)
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  • Lenny Bruce The reason I'm in this business, I assume all performers are - it's ''Look at me, Ma!'' It's acceptance, you know - ''Look at me, Ma, look at me, Ma, look at me, Ma.'' And if your mother watches, you'll show off till you're exhausted; but if your mother goes, Ptshew!
    Lenny Bruce
    American Comedian (1925 - 1966)
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  • Zig Ziglar The relationships we have with people are extremely important to success on and off the job.
    Zig Ziglar
    American author, salesman, and motivational speaker. (1926 - 2012)
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  • Karl Marx The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.
    Karl Marx
    German economist and state philosopher (1818 - 1883)
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  • Ben Shapiro The separation of church and state was meant to protect church from state; a state that declares religion off limits in public life is a state that declares itself supreme over all religious values.
    Ben Shapiro
    American conservative political commentator and attorney (1984 - )
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  • Bill Rodgers The starting line of the New York Marathon is kind of like a giant time bomb behind you about to go off. It is the most spectacular start in sport.
    Bill Rodgers
    American marathon athlete (1947 - )
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  • Bruce Springsteen The street's alive as secret debts are paid,
    Contacts made, they vanished unseen.
    Kids flash guitars just like switch-blades
    Hustling for the record machine.
    The hungry and the hunted explode into rock'n'roll bands
    That face off against each other out in the street, down in Jungleland.
    Born To Run (1975) Jungleland
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Allen Klein The studies indicate that focusing our attention on someone else, takes our mind off of our own problems. We stay healthier and thereby live longer.
    Allen Klein
    American businessman, music publisher (1931 - 2009)
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  •  Vikram Seth The thing about inspiration is that it takes your mind off everything else.
    Vikram Seth
    Indian poet and novelist (1952 - )
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  • Abraham Lincoln The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Billy Tauzin The timing was terrible, and having one disaster after another didn't help. I think the pictures on television of the way in which the disaster was handled also helped to turn off the public and Congress.
    Billy Tauzin
    American lobbyist and politician (1943 - )
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  • Rosamond Lehmann The trouble with Ian is that he gets off with women because he can't get on with them.
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  • Abe Lemons The trouble with retirement is that you never get a day off.
    Abe Lemons
    American basketball player and coach (1922 - 2002)
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  • Olive Schreiner The troubles of the young are soon over; they leave no external mark. If you wound the tree in its youth the bark will quickly cover the gash; but when the tree is very old, peeling the bark off, and looking carefully, you will see the scar there still. All that is buried is not dead.
    Olive Schreiner
    South African author and anti-war campaigner (1855 - 1920)
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  • Carine Roitfeld The true test of a man's style is the haircut. There are some men who look good no matter how their hair is styled, whether it's trendy or not. A man can change his haircut many times, but to pull off any haircut, you have to be very chic. Like Brad Pitt.
    Carine Roitfeld
    French fashion editor (1954 - )
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  • Jorge Luis Borges The truth is that we live out our lives putting off all that can be put off; perhaps we all know deep down that we are immortal and that sooner or later all men will do and know all things.
    Jorge Luis Borges
    Argentijns writer (1899 - 1986)
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