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  • Barry Mann If I waited for inspiration every time I sat down to write a song I probably would be a plumber today.
    Barry Mann
    American songwriter and musician (1939 - )
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  • Brody Jenner If I'm in Malibu driving up and down Pacific Coast Highway, my '68 Dodge Charger usually is what I like to drive.
    Brody Jenner
    American television personality, disc jockey and model (1983 - )
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  • Belle Boyd If it is a crime to love the South, its cause and its President, then I am a criminal. I would rather lie down in this prison and die than leave it owing allegiance to a government such as yours.
    Belle Boyd
    American Confederate spy (1844 - 1900)
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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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  • Bill Nye If NASA is to reach beyond the Moon and someday reach Mars, it must be relieved of the burden of launching people and cargo to low earth orbit. To do that, we must invest more in commercial spaceflight.
    Bill Nye
    American science communicator, television presenter (1955 - )
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  • Alan Patrick Herbert If nobody said anything unless he knew what he was talking about, a ghastly hush would descend upon the earth.
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  • Nadine Gordimer If people would forget about utopia! When rationalism destroyed heaven and decided to set it up here on earth, that most terrible of all goals entered human ambition. It was clear there'd be no end to what people would be made to suffer for it.
    Nadine Gordimer
    South african writer (1923 - 2014)
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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 Nye If the Earth gets hit by an asteroid, it's game over. It's control-alt-delete for civilization.
    Bill Nye
    American science communicator, television presenter (1955 - )
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  • Bob Filner If the President really wanted to know exactly how Rove and Libby were involved, he could walk down to their offices and demand that they answer him honestly.
    Bob Filner
    American politician (1942 - )
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  • James Baldwin If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • W. M. Thackeray If the secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader.
    W. M. Thackeray
    Indian-born, British novelist (1811 - 1863)
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  • Caleb Cushing If there be any plausible reason for supposing that we have the right to legislate on the slave interests of the District, you cannot put down the investigation of the subject out of doors, by refusing to receive petitions.
    Caleb Cushing
    American Democratic politician and diplomat (1800 - 1879)
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  • Karl William Kapp If there had been a computer in 1872 it would have predicted that by now there would be so many horse-drawn vehicles that the entire surface of the earth would be ten feet deep in horse manure.
    Karl William Kapp
    German-American economist (1910 - 1976)
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  • Harriet Martineau If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.
    Harriet Martineau
    British writer, social criticus (1802 - 1876)
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  • Joseph De Maistre If there was no moral evil upon earth, there would be no physical evil.
    Joseph De Maistre
    French diplomat and philosopher (1753 - 1821)
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  • Assata Shakur If we are not committed to saving this earth we will be buying designer air filters and gas masks with little Nike swishes on them.
    Assata Shakur
    American activist and former member of the Black Liberation Army (BLA) (1947 - )
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  • Ray Bradbury If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be cynical. Well, that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.
    Ray Bradbury
    American science-fiction writer (1920 - 2012)
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg If we make a couple of discoveries here and there we need not believe things will go on like this for ever. Just as we hit water when we dig in the earth, so we discover the incomprehensible sooner or later.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Benigno Aquino III If we say yes to something we believe is wrong now, what guarantee is there that the wrong will not be further exacerbated down the line?
    Benigno Aquino III
    Filipino politician (1960 - )
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