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  • Bobby Orr If you talk to most athletes, the place you're most comfortable is your playing field. I'm not so comfortable at a podium or talking about events.
    Bobby Orr
    Canadian ice hockey player (1948 - )
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  • Abigail Van Buren If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
    Abigail Van Buren
    American advice columnist and radio show host (1918 - 2013)
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  • Bill Bradley Imagination allows us to escape the predictable. It enables us to reply to the common wisdom that we cannot soar by saying, 'Just watch!'
    Bill Bradley
    American former professional basketball player and politician (1943 - )
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  • Paul Mccartney Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.
    Paul Mccartney
    English singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and composer (1942 - )
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  • Bjork In '96, I was in a very specific place with my own music - I was only listening to beats. You would come to my house, and I would just play beats all day.
    Bjork
    Icelandic singer, songwriter and actress (1965 - )
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  • Beeban Kidron In 1982, fellow film student Amanda Richardson and I went to Greenham Common for the day - to see what was going on and to shoot some video. The day turned into a weekend, the weekend into seven months, and the dozens of hours of footage turned into a film - 'Carry Greenham Home.'
    Beeban Kidron
    British filmmaker (1961 - )
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  • Arthur Helps In a balanced organization, working towards a common objective, there is success.
    Arthur Helps
    English writer and dean
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  • Barbara Amiel In a free world there is, alas, more common crime than in a dictatorial system.
    Barbara Amiel
    British journalist, writer, and socialite (1940 - )
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  • Diogenes of Sinope In a rich man's house there is no place to spit but his face.
    Diogenes of Sinope
    Greek philosopher (412 - 323)
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  • Ben Shapiro In actuality, California could be a wonderful place to live. In fact, if you're highly educated and ambitious, you can do quite well here while enjoying the sun and the fun. The only problem: California will then blame you for your success and recommend that all your cash be removed from you.
    Ben Shapiro
    American conservative political commentator and attorney (1984 - )
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  • Alfred Marshall In common use almost every word has many shades of meaning, and therefore needs to be interpreted by the context.
    Alfred Marshall
    British economist (1842 - 1924)
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  • Alfred Marshall In common use almost every word has many shades of meaning, and therefore needs to be interpreted by the context.
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  • William S. Burroughs In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality.
    William S. Burroughs
    American writer and artist (1914 - 1997)
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  • Alexander Hamilton In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men the great difficulty lies in this: You must first enable the government to control the governed, and in the next place, oblige it to control itself.
    Alexander Hamilton
    American statesman (1757 - 1804)
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  • Friedrich Melchior Grimm In general, it is not very difficult for little minds to attain splendid situations. It is much more difficult for great minds to attain the place to which their merit fully entitles them.
    Friedrich Melchior Grimm
    German-born French-language journalist, art critic and diplomat
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  • Plutarch In human life there is constant change of fortune; and it is unreasonable to expect an exemption from the common fate. Life itself decays, and all things are daily changing.
    Plutarch
    Greek biographer and essayist (46 - 120)
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  • Bahman Ghobadi In Iranian cinema, all the lying takes place before making the film. In order to be able to make the film, you have to lie.
    Bahman Ghobadi
    Iranian-Kurdish film director, producer and writer (1969 - )
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  • Alexander Smith In life there is nothing more unexpected and surprising than the arrivals and departures of pleasure. If we find it in one place today, it is vain to seek it there tomorrow. You can not lay a trap for it.
    Alexander Smith
    Scottish Poet, Author (1829 - 1867)
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  • Abram L. Urban In my garden there is a large place for sentiment. My garden of flowers is also my garden of thoughts and dreams. The thoughts grow as freely as the flowers, and the dreams are as beautiful.
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  • Elie Wiesel In the concentration camps, we discovered this whole universe where everyone had his place. The killer came to kill, and the victims came to die.
    Interview Oprah november 2000
    Elie Wiesel
    Rumanian-born American Writer (1928 - 2016)
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