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  • Bill Flores From the depths of the Pacific to the deserts of Iraq, more than a million American soldiers, Airmen, midshipmen, and Marines have laid down their lives for their friends, their families and our nation.
    Bill Flores
    American businessman and politician (1954 - )
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  • Napoleon From the heights of these pyramids, forty centuries look down on us.
    Napoleon
    French Emperor (1769 - 1821)
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  • Oscar Wilde From the point of view of literature Mr. Kipling is a genius who drops his aspirates. From the point of view of life, he is a reporter who knows vulgarity better than any one has ever known it.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Ayn Rand From the smallest necessity to the highest religious abstraction, from the wheel to the skyscraper, everything we are and everything we have comes from one attribute of man - the function of his reasoning mind.
    Ayn Rand
    Russian Writer, Philosopher (1905 - 1982)
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  • Ben Lloyd-Hughes Funnily enough, I did a play called 'Jumpy' on the West End before I did 'Divergent,' and there was an essence of that character I played, called Cam, in Will. In the sense of his vulnerability, and... he had a sense of humor that comes out of adversity, similar to Will.
    Ben Lloyd-Hughes
    British actor (1988 - )
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  • Brin-Jonathan Butler Galileo wasn't put in prison because he was wrong about anything he discovered looking through his telescope; rather, he was incarcerated simply because he saw what others didn't wish to see.
    Brin-Jonathan Butler
    American journalist and filmmaker
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  • John Stuart Mill General laws may be laid down respecting the tides; predictions may be founded on those laws, and the result will in the main, though often not with complete accuracy, correspond to the predictions.
    A System of Logic, Book 6, The Logic of the Moral Sciences Ch. 3
    John Stuart Mill
    English economist (1806 - 1873)
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  • Ronald Reagan General Secretary Gorbachev, if you seek peace, if you seek prosperity for the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, if you seek liberalization: Come here to this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!
    Speech Berlin, 12 June 1997
    Ronald Reagan
    American politician and actor (1911 - 2004)
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  • Bertolt Brecht General, your tank
    is a powerful vehicle
    it smashes down forests
    and crushes a hundred men.
    but it has one defect:
    it needs a driver.
    Poems, 1913-1956
    Bertolt Brecht
    German - Austrian writer (1898 - 1956)
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  • Marlene Dietrich Gentleman. A man who buys two of the same morning paper from the doorman of his favorite nightclub when he leaves with his girl.
    Marlene Dietrich
    German-born American Film Actor (1901 - 1992)
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  • Al Gore George Bush taking credit for the wall coming down is like the rooster taking credit for the sun rising.
    Al Gore
    American politician and environmentalist (1948 - )
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  • Bill Medley George Klein says that Elvis had five real friends outside of his circle, and I was blessed to be one of them. I spent a lot of time with Elvis in Vegas and at Graceland.
    Bill Medley
    American singer and songwriter (1940 - )
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  • Basil Bunting Gin the goodwife stint
    and the bairns hunger
    the Duke can get his rent
    one year longer.
    Odes Gin the Goodwife Stint, I:14
    Basil Bunting
    British poet (1900 - 1985)
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  • Louisa May Alcott Girls are so queer you never know what they mean. They say No when they mean Yes, and drive a man out of his wits for the fun of it.
    Louisa May Alcott
    American Author (1832 - 1888)
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  • C. Neil Strait Give a man a dollar and you cheer his heart. Give him a dream and you challenge his heart. Give him Christ and you change his heart. Then the dollar and the dream become meaningful to him, and to others.
    C. Neil Strait
    American priest and author (1934 - 2003)
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  • George Canning Give me the avowed, the erect, the manly foe, bold I can meet, perhaps may turn his blow! But of all plagues, good Heavens, thy wrath can send, save, save, oh save me from the candid friend!
    George Canning
    British statesman (1770 - 1827)
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  • Andrew William Mellon Give tax breaks to large corporations, so that money can trickle down to the general public, in the form of extra jobs.
    Andrew William Mellon
    American banker and businessman
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  • William Shakespeare Give thy thoughts no tongue, nor any unproportioned thought his act. Be thou familiar but by no means vulgar.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • John Dryden Go miser go, for money sell your soul. Trade wares for wares and trudge from pole to pole, So others may say when you are dead and gone. See what a vast estate he left his son.
    John Dryden
    English poet and playwright (1631 - 1700)
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  • Graham Greene God created a number of possibilities in case some of his prototypes failed - that is the meaning of evolution.
    Graham Greene
    English writer (1904 - 1991)
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