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  • Bruce Springsteen Born down in a dead man's town;
    The first kick I took was when I hit the ground.
    You end up like a dog that's been beat too much
    'Til you spend half your life just covering up.
    Born In The U.S.A. (1984) Born in the USA
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Buzz Aldrin Bringing an asteroid back to Earth? What's that have to do with space exploration? If we were moving outward from there, and an asteroid is a good stopping point, then fine. But now it's turned into a whole planetary defense exercise at the cost of our outward exploration.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • Alan Watts Buddhism has in it no idea of there being a moral law laid down by somekind of cosmic lawgiver.
    Alan Watts
    English philosopher, priest and writer (1915 - 1973)
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  • Frank Lloyd Wright Business is like riding a bicycle. Either you keep moving or you fall down.
    Frank Lloyd Wright
    American architect (1867 - 1959)
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  • Beilby Porteus But chiefly Thou, Whom soft-eyed Pity once led down from Heaven To bleed for man, to teach him how to live, And, oh! still harder lesson! how to die.
    Beilby Porteus
    English Bishop and reformer (1731 - 1809)
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  • Barbara Walters But for Muslims, everything that they don't have on earth is what they get in heaven. They can drink, they can have sex. All of the forbidden pleasures on earth, you can have in paradise.
    Barbara Walters
    American journalist and author (1929 - )
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  • Bryan Ferry But I was feeling quite down at the time. I was living in L.A., which was kind of weird for me.
    Bryan Ferry
    English singer and songwriter (1945 - )
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  • Buck Owens But most distinctly, I remember always saying to myself that when I get big, I'm not going to go to bed hungry, I'm not going to wear hand-me-down clothes.
    Buck Owens
    American musician, singer, songwriter (1929 - 2006)
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  • Bill Griffith But now with technology I could sit down and do a bunch of character drawings and scan them into a computer, and the computer using my exact style could bring it into life, where it would have been edited by various human beings before.
    Bill Griffith
    American cartoonist (1944 - )
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  • Audre Lorde But the question is a matter of the survival and the teaching. That's what our work comes down to. No matter where we key into it, it's the same work, just different pieces of ourselves doing it.
    Audre Lorde
    American writer, feminist, womanist, librarian, and civil (1934 - 1992)
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  • Black Kettle But we want peace, I would move all my people down this way. I could then keep them all quietly near camp.
    Black Kettle
    Native Indian Cheyenne chief (1803 - 1868)
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  • Virginia Woolf But when the self speaks to the self, who is speaking? The entombed soul, the spirit driven in, in, in to the central catacomb; the self that took the veil and left the world - a coward perhaps, yet somehow beautiful, as it flits with its lantern restlessly up and down the dark corridors.
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Buzz Aldrin By venturing into space, we improve life for everyone here on Earth - scientific advances and innovations that come from this kind of research create products we use in our daily lives.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • Berkeley Breathed Cartooning is about deconstruction: you gotta tear something down to make a joke.
    Berkeley Breathed
    American cartoonist, director and screenwriter (1957 - )
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  • Brin-Jonathan Butler Castro was always using his athletes as a way of symbolically defeating the United States in the ring, and after these Cubans defeated Americans in the ring, they were turning down exorbitant sums to leave the island.
    Brin-Jonathan Butler
    American journalist and filmmaker
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  • Kelvin Throop III Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
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  • Anthony Trollope Cham is the only thing to screw one up when one is down a peg.
    Anthony Trollope
    British writer (1815 - 1882)
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  • Charles H. Parkhurst Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.
    Charles H. Parkhurst
    American clergyman and social reformer (1842 - 1933)
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  • Martin Luther Christians are rare people on earth.
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  • Carlo Ratti Cities are 2% of the earth's crust, but they are 50% of the world's population.
    Carlo Ratti
    Italian architect, engineer and activist
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