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  • Dorothy L. Sayers If it were not for the war, this war would suit me down to the ground.
    Dorothy L. Sayers
    British writer (1893 - 1957)
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  • Bob Dole If Lincoln had an affair with a slave woman, it would be an outrage, but when Clinton does it with one of his staff, everyone is okay with it.
    Reported in Tom Crisp, The Book of Bob: Choice Words, Memorable Men (2007)
    Bob Dole
    American politician and attorney (1923 - )
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  • Mark Twain If man had created man, he would be ashamed of his performance.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson If man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, though it be in the woods.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Al Sharpton If O.J. had been accused of killing his black wife, you would not have seen the same passion stirred up.
    Al Sharpton
    American civil rights activist, Baptist minister and talk show host (1954 - )
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  • Henry David Thoreau If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Albert Einstein If one were to take that goal out of out of its religious form and look merely at its purely human side, one might state it perhaps thus: free and responsible development of the individual, so that he may place his powers freely and gladly in the service of all mankind.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Benedict Cumberbatch If people ask, 'Are you Sherlock Holmes?', it's horribly naff, but I say, 'I'm not, I just look a bit like him' - which is how I feel. There are bad attributes of his that I really don't share!
    Benedict Cumberbatch
    English actor (1976 - )
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  • Bill Kristol If Romney explains why where we are with Obama is unacceptable, why whither we are tending is even worse - and why his own alternative path forward is superior - then we trust the American people to make the right choice in November.
    Bill Kristol
    American political analyst (1952 - )
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  • Ziad K. Abdelnour If someone is going out of his way to ignore you, he is not ignoring you, he is obsessed by you.
    Economic Warfare: Secrets of Wealth Creation in the Age of Welfare Politics
    Ziad K. Abdelnour
    American banker (1960 - )
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  • John Lennon If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, that's his problem. Love and peace are eternal.
    John Lennon
    British musician (1940 - 1980)
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  • Luis Bunuel If someone were to prove to me - right this minute - that God, in all his luminousness, exists, it wouldn't change a single aspect of my behavior.
    Luis Bunuel
    Spanish director (1900 - 1983)
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  • Elizabeth Taylor If someone's dumb enough to offer me a million dollars to make a picture, I'm certainly not dumb enough to turn it down.
    Elizabeth Taylor
    British-American actress, businesswoman, and humanitarian (1932 - 2011)
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  • Bill Kristol If the American people really come to a settled belief that Bush lied us into war, his presidency will be over.
    Bill Kristol
    American political analyst (1952 - )
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  • Anne Sullivan Macy If the child is left to himself, he will think more and better, if less showily. Let him go and come freely, let him touch real things and combine his impressions for himself.
    Anne Sullivan Macy
    American teacher (1866 - 1936)
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  • William Blake If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thru chinks of his cavern.
    William Blake
    English poet (1757 - 1827)
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  • Alexander Smith If the egotist is weak, his egotism is worthless. If the egotist is strong, acute, full of distinctive character, his egotism is precious, and remains a possession of the race.
    Alexander Smith
    Scottish Poet, Author (1829 - 1867)
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  • Ronald Reagan If the federal government had been around when the Creator was putting His hand to this state, Indiana wouldn't be here. It'd still be waiting for an environmental impact statement.
    Ronald Reagan
    American politician and actor (1911 - 2004)
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  • William Blake If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise.
    William Blake
    English poet (1757 - 1827)
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  • Alfred P. Sloan If the government decides to put your life under a microscope, do you think it won't find something? I suspect there's not an adult in the country who would walk away totally unscathed if every aspect of his or her life were investigated the way Stewart's ImClone trading was.
    Alfred P. Sloan
    American businessman (1875 - 1966)
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