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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Bethany Hamilton God created the heavens and the earth, the oceans and the waves for our enjoyment. Surfing is just my way of worshipping Him.
    Bethany Hamilton
    American professional surfer (1990 - )
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  • Joseph Rudyard Kipling God gives all men all earth to love, but since man's heart is small, ordains for each one spot shall prove belovèd over all.
    Joseph Rudyard Kipling
    English writer (1865 - 1936)
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  • Benjamin Franklin God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: This is my country!
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • St. Augustine of Hippo God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.
    St. Augustine of Hippo
    Roman African Christian theologian and philosopher (354 - 430)
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  • Archibald Alexander God is not glorified in any transaction upon earth so much as in the conversion of a sinner.
    Archibald Alexander
    American Presbyterian theologian and professor (1772 - 1851)
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  • Bob Riley God looked down on this country because this country was founded on the rock and that rock was our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. And when the storms came and the rains came, the rock, it did not move. But over the last 15 or 20 years, something began to erode.
    Bob Riley
    American politician (1944 - )
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  • Anne Sexton God owns heaven but He craves the earth.
    Anne Sexton
    American poet (1928 - 1974)
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  • Bill Watterson God put me on this earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I am so far behind that I will never die.
    Bill Watterson
    American cartoonist (1958 - )
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  • Bob Marley God sent me on earth. He send me to do something, and nobody can stop me. If God want to stop me, then I stop. Man never can.
    Bob Marley
    Jamaican singer-songwriter (1945 - 1981)
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  • Paul Scherer God walked down the stairs of heaven with a Baby in His arms.
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  • Bridget Moynahan Going through that traumatic time of being heartbroken and then being pregnant turned my whole life upside down and inside out and just knocked the wind out of me. But I got so much out of that.
    Bridget Moynahan
    American actress and model (1971 - )
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  • Bernard M. Baruch Gold has worked down from Alexander's time... When something holds good for two thousand years I do not believe it can be so because of prejudice or mistaken theory.
    Bernard M. Baruch
    American investor, philanthropist, statesman, and political consultant (1870 - 1965)
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  • Bruce Springsteen Gonna be a twister to blow everything down
    That ain't got the faith to stand its ground
    Blow away the dreams that tear you apart
    Blow away the dreams that break your heart
    Blow away the lies that leave you nothing but lost and brokenhearted.
    Darkness On The Edge Of Town (1978) The Promised Land
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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