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  • Ban Ki-moon By strengthening the three pillars of the United Nations - security, development and human rights - we can build a more peaceful, more prosperous and more just world for our succeeding generations.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Miguel de Cervantes By such innovations are languages enriched, when the words are adopted by the multitude, and naturalized by custom.
    Miguel de Cervantes
    Spanish writer and poet (1547 - 1616)
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  • Robert S. Hillyer By the age of twenty, any young man should know whether or not he is to be a specialist and just where his tastes lie. By postponing the question we have set on immaturity a premium which controls most American personality to its deathbed.
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  • C. Wright Mills By the power elite, we refer to those political, economic, and military circles which as an intricate set of overlapping cliques share decisions having at least national consequences. In so far as national events are decided, the power elite are those who decide them.
    The Power Elite (1956)
    C. Wright Mills
    American sociologist (1916 - 1962)
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  • Adolf Hitler By the skillful and sustained use of propaganda, one can make a people see even heaven as hell or an extremely wretched life as paradise.
    Adolf Hitler
    German politician (1889 - 1945)
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  • Miguel de Cervantes By the street of by-and-by, one arrives at the house of never.
    Miguel de Cervantes
    Spanish writer and poet (1547 - 1616)
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  • Billy Bragg By the time I was 19, punk had occurred. It had a completely different cultural dynamic to it which rejected everything and started again from the year zero.
    Billy Bragg
    English singer-songwriter (1957 - )
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  • Caroline Leavitt By the time I was 5, I was already an outcast. It was the early 1960s, and I was part of the only Jewish family in a decidedly Christian suburb of Waltham, Mass.
    Caroline Leavitt
    American novelist
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  • Brit Morin By the time I was a senior in high school, I knew I wanted to move to Silicon Valley and learn more about computers and the Internet. I just fell in love with technology and the potential of everything the Internet had to offer.
    Brit Morin
    American entrepreneur (1985 - )
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  • Albert Maltz By the time I was at college, I became very alert to the question of racial discrimination, and I remember one of my first writing attempts had to do with a lynching.
    Albert Maltz
    American playwright and fiction writer (1908 - 1985)
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  • Andrea Dworkin By the time we are women, fear is as familiar to us as air. It is our element. We live in it, we inhale it, we exhale it, and most of the time we do not even notice it. Instead of ''I am afraid,'' we say, ''I don't want to,'' or ''I don't know how,'' or ''I can't.''
    Andrea Dworkin
    American radical feminist and writer (1946 - 2005)
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  • Calamity Jane By the time we reached Virginia City I was considered a remarkable good shot and a fearless rider for a girl of my age.
    Calamity Jane
    American frontierswoman (1852 - 1903)
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  • Brendan Coyle By the time you've been single for quite a long time, you can get quite specific about what you can and can't put up with.
    Brendan Coyle
    English-Irish actor (1962 - )
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  • Angelus Silesius By the will art thou lost, by the will art thou found, by the will art thou free, captive, and bound.
    Angelus Silesius
    German Catholic priest and physician (1624 - 1677)
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  • Jackie Mason By these things examine thyself. By whose rules am I acting; in whose name; in whose strength; in whose glory? What faith, humility, self-denial, and love of God and to man have there been in all my actions?
    Jackie Mason
    American stand-up comedian and actor (1928 - 2021)
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  • Barton Seaver By thinking through the grilling process while still in the kitchen, you can easily gather all of the items that you might need and conveniently carry them to the outdoors area.
    Barton Seaver
    American author and chef (1979 - )
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  • Thomas à Kempis By two wings a man is lifted up from things earthly: by simplicity and purity.
    Thomas à Kempis
    Dutch medieval Augustinian canon, writer and mystic (1380 - 1471)
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  • Buzz Aldrin By venturing into space, we improve life for everyone here on Earth - scientific advances and innovations that come from this kind of research create products we use in our daily lives.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • Ashley Montagu By virtue of being born to humanity, every human being has a right to the development and fulfillment of his potentialities as a human being.
    Ashley Montagu
    British-American anthropologist (1905 - 1999)
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  • Solomon Schechter By vulgarity I mean that vice of civilization which makes man ashamed of himself and his next of kin, and pretend to be somebody else.
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