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  • B. F. Skinner The speaker does not feel the grammatical rules he is said to apply in composing sentences, and men spoke grammatically for thousands of years before anyone knew there were rules.
    B. F. Skinner
    American psychologist, behaviorist and author (1904 - 1990)
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  • Allan Bloom The spirit is at home, if not entirely satisfied, in America.
    Allan Bloom
    American writer (1930 - 1992)
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  • George Santayana The spirit's foe in man has not been simplicity, but sophistication.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • Harold Clurman The stage is life, music, beautiful girls, legs, breasts, not talk or intellectualism or dried-up academics.
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  • Oscar Wilde The stage is not merely the meeting place of all the arts, but is also the return of art to life.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Barbara Bush The state dinner is almost a formula, but you try to make it interesting. You try not to overload it with too many political types. You try to get a cross section.
    Barbara Bush
    American First Lady (1925 - 2018)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The State must follow, and not lead, the character and progress of the citizen.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • James I of England The state of monarchy is the supremest thing upon earth: for kings are not only God's Lieutenants upon earth, and sit upon God's throne, but even by God himself they are called Gods.
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  • Arthur Hays Sulzberger The statesmen still say that we should not interfere in the internal affairs of other nations and yet it is not possible any longer not to interfere, even when we do not mean to do so.
    Arthur Hays Sulzberger
    American newspaper publisher (1891 - 1968)
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  • Alice Munro The stories are not autobiographical, but they're personal in that way. I seem to know only the things that I've learned. Probably some things through observation, but what I feel I know surely is personal.
    Alice Munro
    Canadian short story writer (1931 - )
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  • Bob Shacochis The stories are there first, and they come from my experiences wandering around in the world. They will resonate into bigger things, forces sweeping the planet, themes and archetypes, but I'm not smart enough to have lucid integration of all that in my head as I'm writing.
    Bob Shacochis
    American writer (1951 - )
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  • Helen Hayes The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
    Helen Hayes
    American actress (1900 - 1993)
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  • Brenda Blethyn The strange thing is that since I've been offered lots of films I think that maybe they think that I've sold out to Hollywood. Which is not the case if anybody's listening.
    Brenda Blethyn
    English actress (1946 - )
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  • Blaise Pascal The strength of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts.
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Ben Bernanke The stress on the financial system in the fall of 2007 was significant, but not so significant as to threaten the overall stability of the U.S. economy, although it did lead to the beginning of a recession at the end of 2007.
    Ben Bernanke
    American economist (1953 - )
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  • Blaise Pascal The struggle alone pleases us, not the victory.
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Walter Lippmann The study of error is not only in the highest degree prophylactic, but it serves as a stimulating introduction to the study of truth.
    Walter Lippmann
    American writer, reporter, and political commentator (1889 - 1974)
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  • Alfred de Vigny The study of social progress is today not less needed in literature than is the analysis of the human heart.
    Alfred de Vigny
    French poet and writer (1797 - 1863)
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  • Thomas Szasz The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naïve forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.
    Thomas Szasz
    American psychiatrist (1920 - 2012)
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  • Carlos Ruiz Zafon The success of 'The Shadow of the Wind' made me very happy, but it did not change my perspective or the way I was.
    Carlos Ruiz Zafon
    Spanish novelist (1964 - 2020)
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