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  • Samuel Johnson Wickedness is always easier than virtue, for it takes a short cut to everything.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Buffalo Bill With the help of a friend I got father into a wagon, when the crowd had gone. I held his head in my lap during the ride home. I believed he was mortally wounded. He had been stabbed down through the kidneys, leaving an ugly wound.
    An Autobiography of Buffalo Bill (2009 edition), Arc Manor LLC
    Buffalo Bill
    American soldier, bison hunter, and showman (1846 - 1917)
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  • Federico Garcia Lorca With their souls of patent leather, they come down the road. Hunched and nocturnal, where they breathe they impose, silence of dark rubber, and fear of fine sand.
    Federico Garcia Lorca
    Spanish poet and playwright (1898 - 1936)
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  • Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn Woe to that nation whose literature is cut short by the intrusion of force. This is not merely interference with freedom of the press but the sealing up of a nation's heart, the excision of its memory.
    Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn
    Russian Novelist (1918 - 2008)
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  • Barbara Mikulski Women leading means that Congress is working to create jobs, make quality child care more affordable and strengthen the middle class because we understand that America grows the economy and opportunity from the middle out, not the top down.
    Barbara Mikulski
    American politician (1936 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Words are alive; cut them and they bleed.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Boyle Roche Would cut us to mincemeat, and throw our bleeding heads on that table to stare us in the face.
    Boyle Roche
    Irish politician
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  • Francis Bacon Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Don Marquis Writing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.
    Don Marquis
    American writer (1878 - 1937)
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  • Robert Frost Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.
    Robert Frost
    American poet (1874 - 1963)
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  • Bootsy Collins Yeah, because what it all boils down to is at the end of the day, we are all riding on the same boat and we have to learn how to deal with each other. I think that the music and what we do in our actions is what can kind of bring us together, hopefully.
    Bootsy Collins
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1951 - )
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  • Yogi Berra Yogi ordered a pizza. The waitress asked How many pieces do you want your pie cut? Yogi responded, Four. I don't think I could eat eight.
    Yogi Berra
    American baseball player (1925 - 2015)
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  • Marcia Wieder You can come to understand your purpose in life by slowing down and feeling your heart's desires.
    Marcia Wieder
    CEO and Founder of Dream University
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  • Caroline Wozniacki You can either feel sorry for yourself and lay down and cry, or you can actually learn from it and move on and find all the positives in it.
    Caroline Wozniacki
    Danish tennis player (1990 - )
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  • St. Edward Aubyn You can only give things up once they start to let you down.
    The Patrick Melrose Novels (2014) 285
    St. Edward Aubyn
    English writer and journalist (1960 - )
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  • William Boetcker You cannot raise a man up by calling him down.
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  • C. A. R. Hoare You cannot teach beginners top-down programming, because they don't know which end is up.
    C. A. R. Hoare
    British computer scientist
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  • Aaron Copland You compose because you want to somehow summarize in some permanent form your most basic feelings about being alive, to set down... some sort of permanent statement about the way it feels to live now, today.
    Aaron Copland
    American composer and writer (1900 - 1990)
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  • Bruce Sterling You don't get to cut that chain of evidence and start over. You're always going to be pursued by your data shadow, which is forming from thousands and thousands of little leaks and tributaries of information.
    Bruce Sterling
    American science fiction author (1954 - )
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  • Brendan I. Koerner You don't have to be Wilt Chamberlain to get into the Basketball Hall of Fame. If you don't have a sweet turnaround jumper from 18 feet, the best route to the Hall is fatherhood. Daniel Biasone, aka the 'father of the 24-second clock,' made the cut.
    Brendan I. Koerner
    American author (1974 - )
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