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  • Barney Ross After the atomic bombs were dropped, the war ended and we went into Tokyo Bay with the rest of the fleet, the Missouri and the rest of them, while they signed the terms of surrender that ended the war.
    Barney Ross
    American professional boxer (1909 - 1967)
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  • Bob Beauprez After the Democrats shoved the 2700 pages of ObamaCare down our throats - and we did find out how expensive, controlling, and coercive the legislation was - a majority of Americans wanted the Supreme Court to toss it aside as unconstitutional.
    Bob Beauprez
    American politician and member (1948 - )
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  • Carl Sagan After the earth dies, some 5 billion years from now, after it's burned to a crisp, or even swallowed by the Sun, there will be other worlds and stars and galaxies coming into being - and they will know nothing of a place once called Earth.
    Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space (1994)
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Barbara Deming After the revolution, let us hope, prisons simply would not exist - if by prisons we mean places that could be experienced by the men and women in them at all as every place that goes by that name now is bound to be experienced.
    We cannot live without our lives
    Barbara Deming
    American feminist and advocate (0 - 1984)
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  • Barbara W. Tuchman After the war, when my husband came home, we had two more children, and domesticity for a while prevailed combined with beginning the work I had always wanted to do, which was writing a book.
    Barbara W. Tuchman
    American historian (1912 - 1989)
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  • Bob Ney After two years of hard work and debate, Congress has passed a highway bill that will help fuel our economy by creating roughly 500,000 new jobs, as well as address many critical transportation needs in Ohio and the 18th Congressional District.
    Bob Ney
    American politician (1954 - )
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  • Butch Trucks After we did the last Allman Brothers Band show, my wife and I just packed up and went to France for pretty much all of 2015, and I just got bored; I got the itch. I wanna play.
    Butch Trucks
    American musician (1947 - 2017)
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  • Bryan Cogman After we map out all the main characters' individual arcs, using color-coded index cards, we arrange them by episode and get a rough idea of the scene order.
    Bryan Cogman
    American writer and producer (1979 - )
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  • C. L. R. James After World War I the resentment of the working class against all that it had to suffer was directed more against Morgan, Wall Street and private capital than the government.
    C. L. R. James
    Trinidadian historian, journalist and socialist (1901 - 1989)
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  • Walt Whitman After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on - have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear - what remains? Nature remains.
    Walt Whitman
    American poet, essayist, and journalist (1819 - 1892)
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  • Bill Goldberg After you ride a roller coaster that's been going up for a year and a half, and you reach the pinnacle and then dive straight down with no gradual decline, it's a little disorienting. I didn't know how to take losing.
    Bill Goldberg
    American professional wrestler and actor (1966 - )
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  • Benny Goodman After you've done all the work and prepared as much as you can, what the hell, you might as well go out and have a good time.
    Benny Goodman
    American jazz clarinetist and bandleader (1909 - 1986)
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  • Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Against criticism a man can neither protest nor defend himself; he must act in spite of it, and then it will gradually yield to him.
    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Graham Greene Against the beautiful and the clever and the successful, one can wage a pitiless war, but not against the unattractive: then the millstone weighs on the breast.
    Graham Greene
    English writer (1904 - 1991)
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  • Virginia Woolf Against you I will fling myself, unvanquished and unyielding, O Death!
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Tryon Edwards Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow up.
    Tryon Edwards
    American theologian (1809 - 1894)
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  • George Macdonald Age is not all decay; it is the ripening, the swelling, of the fresh life within, that withers and bursts the husk.
    George Macdonald
    Scottish writer (1824 - 1905)
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  • Bernard M. Baruch Age is only a number, a cipher for the records. A man can't retire his experience. He must use it. Experience achieves more with less energy and time.
    On his 85th birthday. UPI News Report, August 20, 1955
    Bernard M. Baruch
    American investor, philanthropist, statesman, and political consultant (1870 - 1965)
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  • Ralph B. Perry Age should not have its face lifted, but it should rather teach the world to admire wrinkles as the etchings of experience and the firm line of character.
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  • George Burns Age to me means nothing. I can't get old; I'm working. I was old when I was twenty-one and out of work. As long as you're working, you stay young. When I'm in front of an audience, all that love and vitality sweeps over me and I forget my age.
    George Burns
    American Comedy Actor (1896 - 1996)
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