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  • Carl Sandburg Here is the difference between Dante, Milton, and me. They wrote about hell and never saw the place. I wrote about Chicago after looking the town over for years and years.
    Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Here there is no hope, and consequently no duty, no work, nothing to be gained by praying, nothing to be lost by doing what you like. Hell, in short, is a place where you have nothing to do but amuse yourself.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Bob Dylan Hey, Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me.
    I'm not sleepy and there is no place I'm going to.
    Hey, Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me.
    In the jingle-jangle morning, I'll come following you.
    Bringing It All Back Home (1965)
    Bob Dylan
    American musician (1941 - )
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  • Hubert Humphrey History teaches us that the great revolutions aren't started by people who are utterly down and out, without hope and vision. They take place when people begin to live a little better - and when they see how much yet remains to be achieved.
    Hubert Humphrey
    American politician (1911 - 1978)
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  • Fred A. Allen Hollywood is a place where people from Iowa mistake each other for stars.
    Fred A. Allen
    American comic (1894 - 1956)
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  • Marilyn Monroe Hollywood's a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss, and fifty cents for your soul.
    Marilyn Monroe : In Her Own Words (1983)
    Marilyn Monroe
    American actress (1926 - 1962)
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  • Angela Carter Hollywood... was the place where the United States perpetrated itself as a universal dream and put the dream into mass production.
    Angela Carter
    British author (1940 - 1992)
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  • Robert Frost Home is the place where, when you have to go there, They have to take you in.
    Robert Frost
    American poet (1874 - 1963)
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  • Ben Horowitz How do you make your company a good place to work in general? That's a really, really, really large and complex set of skills. A lot of it is on-the-job training, combined with excellent mentorship.
    Ben Horowitz
    American businessman, investor, blogger, and author (1966 - )
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  • Alexis de Tocqueville However energetically society in general may strive to make all the citizens equal and alike, the personal pride of each individual will always make him try to escape from the common level, and he will form some inequality somewhere to his own profit.
    Alexis de Tocqueville
    French aristocrat, political philosopher and sociologist (1805 - 1859)
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  • Christopher Leach Human Love... It is that extra creation that stands hurt and baffled at the place of death. Being human, wanting children and sunlight and breath to go on, forever.
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  • Billy Collins Humor, for me, is really a gate of departure. It's a way of enticing a reader into a poem so that less funny things can take place later. It really is not an end in itself, but a means to an end.
    Billy Collins
    American poet (1941 - )
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  • Oscar Wilde I adore political parties. They are the only place left to us where people don't talk politics.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Stokely Carmichael I also know that while I am black I am a human being, and therefore I have the right to go into any public place. White people didn't know that. Every time I tried to go into a place they stopped me.
    Stokely Carmichael
    American activist (1941 - 1998)
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  • Annie Leibovitz I am impressed with what happens when someone stays in the same place and you took the same picture over and over and it would be different, every single frame.
    Annie Leibovitz
    American portrait photographer (1949 - )
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  • Thomas Hardy I am the family face; flesh perishes, I live on, projecting trait and trace through time to times anon, and leaping from place to place over oblivion.
    Thomas Hardy
    British writer and poet (1840 - 1928)
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  • Ahmed Ben Bella I am the son of poor peasants who came at a very young age to live in Algeria. I only recently saw the place where they were born, near the city of Marrakech.
    Ahmed Ben Bella
    Algerian politician, socialist soldier and revolutionary (1916 - 2012)
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  • Queen Elizabeth I I am your anointed Queen. I will never be by violence constrained to do anything. I thank God I am endued with such qualities that if I were turned out of the Realm in my petticoat I were able to live in any place in Christendom.
    Queen Elizabeth I
    Queen of England and Ireland (1533 - 1603)
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  • Rosa Parks I believe we are here on the planet Earth to live, grow up and do what we can to make this world a better place for all people to enjoy freedom.
    Rosa Parks
    American activist in the civil rights movement (1913 - 2005)
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  • Dorothy Parker I can't talk about Hollywood. It was a horror to me when I was there and it's a horror to look back on. I can't imagine how I did it. When I got away from it I couldn't even refer to the place by name. ''Out there,'' I called it.
    Dorothy Parker
    American humoristic writer (1893 - 1967)
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