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  • Anita Roddick But the minute we went public on the stock market, which is how our wealth was created, it was no longer how many people you employed, it was how much you were worth and how much your company was worth.
    Anita Roddick
    British businesswoman and human rights activist (1942 - 2007)
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  • Alan Paton But the one thing that has power completely is love, because when a man loves, he seeks no power, and therefore he has power.
    Alan Paton
    South African author and anti-apartheid activist (1903 - 1988)
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  • Audre Lorde But the question is a matter of the survival and the teaching. That's what our work comes down to. No matter where we key into it, it's the same work, just different pieces of ourselves doing it.
    Audre Lorde
    American writer, feminist, womanist, librarian, and civil (1934 - 1992)
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  • Aldous Huxley But the quiet grows and grows. Beautifully and unbearably.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Bob Schieffer But the reporter has the responsibility to determine, number one, whether that is true, and number two, to make a judgment as to whether it's in the public interest and whether or not it should be part of the debate.
    Bob Schieffer
    American television journalist (1937 - )
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  • Bruce Springsteen But the star thing I can live with. The music I can't live without. And that's how it lays out for me, you know. I got as big an ego and enjoy the attention.
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Abu Bakar Bashir But the weakness comes from these Westernised co-opted Muslim leaders who just want to look good in the eyes of the West and Western media.
    Abu Bakar Bashir
    Indonesian Muslim cleric (1938 - )
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  • Abu Bakar Bashir But the West is trying to weaken Islam from outside and inside. They attack our people and invade our countries from outside, and they weaken us from within with ideas like secularism, liberalism and democracy. This is all designed to contaminate our pure Islam.
    Abu Bakar Bashir
    Indonesian Muslim cleric (1938 - )
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  • Buffalo Bill But the West of the old times, with its strong characters, its stern battles and its tremendous stretches of loneliness, can never be blotted from my mind.
    An Autobiography of Buffalo Bill (1920)
    Buffalo Bill
    American soldier, bison hunter, and showman (1846 - 1917)
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  • Bruce Springsteen But then I go through long periods where I don't listen to things, usually when I'm working. In between the records and in between the writing I suck up books and music and movies and anything I can find.
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Anthony Trollope But then in novels the most indifferent hero comes out right at last. Some god comes out of a theatrical cloud and leaves the poor devil ten thousand-a-year and a title.
    Anthony Trollope
    British writer (1815 - 1882)
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  • Aldous Huxley But then people don't read literature in order to understand; they read it because they want to re-live the feelings and sensations which they found exciting in the past. Art can be a lot of things; but in actual practice, most of it is merely the mental equivalent of alcohol and cantharides.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Brent Scowcroft But there is scant evidence to tie Saddam to terrorist organizations, and even less to the Sept. 11 attacks.
    Brent Scowcroft
    American US Air Force officer (1925 - 2020)
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  • Bode Miller But there was no question in my mind that I was gonna still go for it. I was still going for the win. I wasn't skiing for second or third place today, and in the end I think that's probably what got me there.
    Bode Miller
    American former World Cup alpine ski racer (1977 - )
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  • Augustus Baldwin Longstreet But there were women in the world, and from them each of our heroes had taken to himself a wife. The good ladies were no strangers to the prowess of their husbands. and, strange as it may seem, they presumed a little upon it.
    Augustus Baldwin Longstreet
    American lawyer, minister, educator, and humorist (1790 - 1870)
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  • Bhagavad Gita But they for whom I am the supreme goal, who do all work renouncing self for me and meditate on me with single-hearted devotion, these I will swiftly rescue from death's vast sea, for their consciousness has entered into me.
    Bhagavad Gita
    Indian Hindu storybook
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  • Bjorn Lomborg But this is an occupational hazard of being a scientist. You say this is the best information I have and then you realize that not everyone is going to read the footnotes or the whole book, so people are going to get the wrong impression.
    Bjorn Lomborg
    Danish author (1965 - )
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  • Barbara Jordan But this is the great danger America faces. That we will cease to be one nation and become instead a collection of interest groups: city against suburb, region against region, individual against individual. Each seeking to satisfy private wants.
    Speaking the truth with eloquent thunder
    Barbara Jordan
    American lawyer, educator and politician (1936 - 1996)
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  • Bret Easton Ellis But this was what happened when you didn't want to visit and confront the past: the past starts visiting and confronting you.
    Lunar Park (2010) 204
    Bret Easton Ellis
    American author, screenwriter, short-story writer, and director (1964 - )
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