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  • Calvin Trillin In modern America, anyone who attempts to write satirically about the events of the day finds it difficult to concoct a situation so bizarre that it may not actually come to pass while the article is still on the presses.
    Calvin Trillin
    American journalist, humorist, food writer and poet (1935 - )
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  • Barry White In my day, we didn't have the cocaine, so we went out and knocked somebody over the head and took the money. But today, all this cocaine and crack, it doesn't give kids a chance.
    Barry White
    American singer-songwriter, record producer and composer (1944 - 2003)
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  • Jean Rostand In order to remain true to oneself one ought to renounce one's party three times a day.
    Jean Rostand
    French writer (1894 - 1977)
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  • Northrop Frye In our day the conventional element in literature is elaborately disguised by a law of copyright pretending that every work of art is an invention distinctive enough to be patented.
    Northrop Frye
    Canadian literair criticus (1912 - 1991)
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  • Bill McKibben In reality, climate change is actually the biggest thing that's going on every single day.
    Bill McKibben
    American environmentalist, author, and journalist (1960 - )
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  • Bruce Springsteen In the day we sweat it out in the streets Of a runaway American dream At night we ride through mansions of Glory in suicide machines.
    Source: Born to Run (1974)
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Carrie Fisher In the Fifties, my parents were known as 'America's sweethearts'. Their pictures graced the covers of all the newspapers. They were the Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston of their day.
    Carrie Fisher
    American actress, writer and comedienne (1956 - 2016)
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  • Alexander Dubcek In the first day of the Soviet Army's arrival, I and the other comrades were isolated and then found ourselves here, not knowing anything... I can only conjecture what could have happened.
    Alexander Dubcek
    Czechoslovak and Slovak politician (1921 - 1992)
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  • Raoul Vaneigem In the twentieth century, death terrifies men less than the absence of real life. All these dead, mechanized, specialized actions, stealing a little bit of life a thousand times a day until the mind and body are exhausted, until that death which is not the
    Raoul Vaneigem
    Belgian philosopher (1934 - )
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  • Brett Ratner In this day and age, you need a lot of patience if you are in the movie business.
    Brett Ratner
    American director and producer (1969 - )
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  • Alice Munro In twenty years I've never had a day when I didn't have to think about someone else's needs. And this means the writing has to be fitted around it.
    Alice Munro
    Canadian short story writer (1931 - )
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  • Nikita Ivanovich Panin In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the years are short and day's long.
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  • Clarence Day Information's pretty thin stuff unless mixed with experience.
    Clarence Day
    American author and cartoonist (1874 - 1935)
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  • Charles Baudelaire Inspiration comes of working every day.
    Charles Baudelaire
    French poet (1821 - 1867)
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  • Bernie S. Siegel Inspiration is the greatest gift because it opens your life to many new possibilities. Each day becomes more meaningful, and your life is enhanced when your actions are guided by what inspires you.
    Bernie S. Siegel
    American writer and pediatric surgeon (1932 - )
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  • Bubba Watson Instead of playing with army men or whatever, I played golf, like for hours every day.
    Bubba Watson
    American professional golfer (1978 - )
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  • Henry Ward Beecher Interest works night and day in fair weather and in foul. It gnaws at a man's substance with invisible teeth.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Mao Tse-Tung Investigation may be likened to the long months of pregnancy, and solving a problem to the day of birth. To investigate a problem is, indeed, to solve it.
    Mao Tse-Tung
    Chinese politician (1893 - 1976)
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  • Maximilien Robespierre Is it to be thought unreasonable that the people, in atonement for wrongs of a century, demand the vengeance of a single day?
    Maximilien Robespierre
    French lawyer and statesman (1758 - 1794)
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  • Angela Merkel It certainly is dangerous that there are only a few clubs left in Europe that can afford to pay millions. At the end of the day however, the spectators decide the rates of pay - by watching the games and consuming the goods and services advertised on sports TV programmes.
    Angela Merkel
    German politician and chancellor (1954 - )
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