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  • A. P. Herbert Well, fancy giving money to the Government! Might as well have put it down the drain.
    A. P. Herbert
    English humorist, novelist and playwright (1890 - 1971)
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  • Bill Rancic Well, the 'Giuliana & Bill' show is a little bit different because Giuliana and I are the executive producers of the show, so certainly we have a lot of control and we have total, I guess if we wanted to, editing power, but I will say, in the seven seasons we've done the show, we've never used our executive producer powers to cut something out.
    Bill Rancic
    American entrepreneur (1971 - )
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  • Bruce Sterling Well, they didn't lack for topics after Hiroshima. Why should 9/11 slow them down? I know it got a lot of press, but it's just a few large buildings and aircraft, it's not like D-Day and the Seige of Berlin.
    Bruce Sterling
    American science fiction author (1954 - )
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  • Henry Ward Beecher What a mother sings to the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Hermann Hesse What constitutes a real, live human being is more of a mystery than ever these days, and men - each one of whom is a valuable, unique experiment on the part of nature - are shot down wholesale.
    Hermann Hesse
    German-Swiss writer, poet and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1946) (1877 - 1962)
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  • Horace What do sad complaints avail if the offense is not cut down by punishment.
    Horace
    Roman poet
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  • Henry David Thoreau What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Sir Isaac Newton What goes up must come down.
    Sir Isaac Newton
    British scientist, mathematician (1643 - 1727)
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  • Boris Pasternak What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth: life always spills over the rim of every cup.
    As quoted in Bridges to Infinity : The Human Side of Mathematics (1983)
    Boris Pasternak
    Russian writer (1890 - 1960)
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  • Polly Adler What it comes down to is this: the grocer, the butcher, the baker, the merchant, the landlord, the druggist, the liquor dealer, the policeman, the doctor, the city father and the politician - these are the people who make money out of prostitution, these are the real reapers of the wages of sin.
    Polly Adler
    American madam and author (0 - 1962)
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  • Walter Lippmann What we call a democratic society might be defined for certain purposes as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
    Walter Lippmann
    American writer, reporter, and political commentator (1889 - 1974)
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  • Joan Didion What's so hard about that first sentence is that you're stuck with it. Everything else is going to flow out of that sentence. And by the time you've laid down the first two sentences, your options are all gone.
    Faceboek (2013)
    Joan Didion
    American Essayist (1934 - 2021)
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  • A. A. Milne What? said Piglet, with a jump. And then, to show that he hadn't been frightened, he jumped up and down once or twice more in an exercising sort of way.
    Winnie-the-Pooh (1926) Chapter Three
    A. A. Milne
    English author, writer of the Winnie-the-Pooh books (1882 - 1956)
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  • Barbara Corcoran Whatever you got you have to accentuate. I ran my female card up and down the ladder my whole career, because I was in a man's world. It was worked by women but owned by men. I was the only female owner in my field at that time.
    Barbara Corcoran
    American businesswoman, investor, speaker and consultant (1949 - )
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  • Carl Sandburg When a nation goes down, or a society perishes, one condition may always be found; they forgot where they came from. They lost sight of what had brought them along.
    Wade House: one of Wisconsins first stagecoach inns, its preservation and restoration, Kohler Co., 1957, p. 7
    Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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  • Edward Bulwer-Lytton When a person is down in the world, an ounce of help is better than a pound of preaching.
    Edward Bulwer-Lytton
    English writer and poet (1803 - 1873)
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  • Byron Dorgan When businesses face tough times, one of the first items they cut is overhead expenses. The government should do the same.
    Byron Dorgan
    American author, businessman (1942 - )
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  • Bill Griffith When drugs came around I sampled them just like anybody else but I never became dependent creatively on drugs; like various cartoonists in the underground never did anything if they weren't stoned, That was the prerequisite for sitting down and drawing.
    Bill Griffith
    American cartoonist (1944 - )
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  • Bart Stupak When I came to Congress, like our first panel, small business people, 64 percent of the people had health insurance. We'd buy it. Now, we're down to about 34 percent. That's why we have to do something on health care in this country because the cost is killing us.
    Bart Stupak
    American politician (1952 - )
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  • Buddy Hackett When I do an hour-and-a-half show, if I don't improvise 20 minutes worth of new material each night, I feel I've let myself down.
    Buddy Hackett
    American actor and comedian (1924 - 2003)
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