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  • Bill Bryson We couldn't place their accents but we thought the smaller one might be Australian since he seemed so at home down under.
    Neither Here nor There: Travels in Europe
    Bill Bryson
    American-British author (1951 - )
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  • Ben Klassen We CREATORS are builders. We are dedicated to the idea of building a beautiful world so different and so superior to the present one that we CREATORS of this generation will go down in history as the revolutionaries who ushered in the Golden Age of Mankind.
    White Mans Bible White Mans Bible (1983)
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  • Boris Johnson We did everything we could to break down barriers that restrain poorest.
    Boris Johnson
    British politician and author (1964 - )
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  • Benjamin Whorf We dissect nature along lines laid down by our native language. Language is not simply a reporting device for experience but a defining framework for it.
    Benjamin Whorf
    American linguist and engineer (1897 - 1941)
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  • Carl Rowan We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the ;status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.
    Carl Rowan
    American government official, journalist and author (1925 - 2000)
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  • Andrew Lloyd Webber We felt we had to know something of his back story. I don't think people in the cinema would just accept that he's there. I think we had to learn how he (got there).
    Andrew Lloyd Webber
    English composer and impresario (1948 - )
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  • Brian Austin Green We finally sat down and asked ourselves how much of our lives we wanted to give everybody. We had just given a little too much, and it started to become a burden.
    Brian Austin Green
    American actor, rapper and producer (1973 - )
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  • Bartlett Sher We get a lot of raps as Americans for being small-minded, but in fact, when you really drill down to the core of the culture, there's an enormous amount of compassion and forgiveness and support.
    Bartlett Sher
    American theatre director (1959 - )
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  • Barbara Mandrell We had to go all through the night thinking that our baby was dead. When God showed him to us, he wasn't dead, he was sucking his thumb. God had him safe and sound. He is a miracle. He is so healthy, so perfect, and God has really, really blessed us.
    Barbara Mandrell
    American country music singer, musician, and actress (1948 - )
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  • Billy Corgan We have a problem with any labels that people try to hang on us, because all it does is drag you down.
    In: Stapleton, Jim. Smashing Pumpkins (1996)
    Billy Corgan
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1967 - )
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  • Mark Twain We have not all had the good fortune to be ladies. We have not all been generals, or poets, or statesmen; but when the toast works down to the babies, we stand on common ground.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Harold Macmillan We have not overthrown the divine right of kings to fall down for the divine right of experts.
    Harold Macmillan
    British Conservative politician, prime minister (1894 - 1986)
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  • Bill Kurtis We know Roger Ebert loved the 'Sun-Times' and his career as a newspaper columnist. But ironically, it was his illness and losing his voice that caused him to explore another venue.
    Bill Kurtis
    American television journalist (1940 - )
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  • George Steiner We know that a man can read Goethe or Rilke in the evening, that he can play Bach and Schubert, and go to his day's work at Auschwitz in the morning.
    George Steiner
    French-born American Critic, Novelist (1929 - 2020)
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  • Chief Seattle We know that the white man does not understand our ways. One portion of land is the same to him as the next, for he is a stranger who comes in the night and takes from the land whatever he needs. The earth is not his brother, but his enemy, and when he has conquered it, he moves on.
    Chief Seattle
    Suquamish Tribe chief (1786 - 1866)
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  • Aneurin Bevan We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run down.
    Observer, 6 December 1953
    Aneurin Bevan
    British Labor politician (1897 - 1960)
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  • Aaron Sorkin We live in a world that has walls. And those walls have to be guarded by men with guns. Who's gonna do it? You?... You can't handle it. Because deep down, in places you don't talk about, you want me on that wall. You need me there. We use words like honor, code, loyalty. We use these words as a backbone to a life spent defending something. You use them as a punchline. I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who rises and sleeps under the blanket of the
    A Few Good Men (1989) Act 2
    Aaron Sorkin
    American screenwriter, director, producer, and playwright (1961 - )
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  • Franklin D. Roosevelt We look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms. The first is freedom of speech and expression. The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way. The third is freedom from want…. The fourth is freedom from fear.
    Franklin D. Roosevelt
    American statesman (1882 - 1945)
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  • Asa Gray We may take it to be the accepted idea that the Mosaic books were not handed down to us for our instruction in scientific knowledge, and that it is our duty to ground our scientific beliefs upon observation and inference, unmixed with considerations of a different order.
    Asa Gray
    American botanist (1810 - 1888)
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  • Al Stewart We measure our days out in steps of uncertainty not turning to see how far we've come. And peer down the highway from here to eternity and reach out for love on the run.
    Al Stewart
    Scottish singer-songwriter (1945 - )
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