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  • Andrew Jackson Nullification means insurrection and war; and the other states have a right to put it down.
    Andrew Jackson
    American president (7th) (1767 - 1845)
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  • Alfred Lord Tennyson O earth, what changes hast thou seen!
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    Alfred Lord Tennyson
    English poet (1809 - 1892)
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  • William Shakespeare O sleep, O gentle sleep, nature's soft nurse, how have I frightened thee, that thou no more wilt weigh my eye-lids down and steep my senses in forgetfulness?
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Euripides Of all things upon earth that bleed and grow, a herb most bruised is woman.
    Euripides
    Greek tragedian and poet (480 - 406)
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  • Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn Of course God is endlessly multi-dimensional so every religion that exists on earth represents some face, some side of God.
    Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn
    Russian Novelist (1918 - 2008)
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  • W. H. Auden Of course, behaviorism works. So does torture. Give me a no-nonsense, down-to-earth behaviorist, a few drugs, and simple electrical appliances, and in six months I will have him reciting the Athanasian Creed in public.
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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  • William Morris Of rich men it telleth, and strange is the story how they have, and they hanker, and grip far and wide; And they live and they die, and the earth and its glory has been but a burden they scarce might abide.
    William Morris
    British artist, writer (1834 - 1896)
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  • Bayard Taylor Oh! what waves of crime and bloodshed have swept like the waves of a deluge down the valley of the Rhine! War has laid his mailed hand on those desolate towers and ruthlessly torn down what time has spared, yet he could not mar the beauty of the shore, nor could Time himself hurl down the mountains that guard it.
    Bayard Taylor
    American poet, travel author, and diplomat (1825 - 1878)
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  • Steve Jobs Older people sit down and ask, 'What is it?' but the boy asks, 'What can I do with it?'.
    Steve Jobs
    American entrepreneur, business magnate, inventor, and industrial (1955 - 2011)
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  • Caity Lotz On 'Death Valley,' I fought this werewolf, and he was picking me up and slamming me down. They put padding down in the garbage so he could really slam me down. They're flying around and I'm doing these jumping flying triangles pulling the guy down. It's just fun.
    Caity Lotz
    American actress, dancer and singer (1986 - )
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  • Jules Renard On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it.
    Jules Renard
    French writer (1864 - 1910)
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  • William Hamilton On earth there is nothing great but man; in man there is nothing great but mind.
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  • Adlai Stevenson II On the plains of hesitation lie the blackened bones of countless millions who at the dawn of victory lay down to rest, and in resting died.
    Adlai Stevenson II
    American politician and governor (1900 - 1965)
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  • Woody Allen On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily as lying down.
    Woody Allen
    American movie director and actor (1935 - )
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  • Gloria Steinem One day an army of gray-haired women may quietly take over the Earth!
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    Gloria Steinem
    American feminist writer (1934 - )
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  • Virginia Woolf One has to secrete a jelly in which to slip quotations down people's throats -and one always secretes too much jelly.
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Aphra Behn One hour of right-down love is worth an age of dully living on.
    Aphra Behn
    English playwright, poet and translator (1640 - 1689)
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  • Virginia Woolf One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Booker T. Washington One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.
    Booker T. Washington
    American Black Leader and Educator (1856 - 1915)
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  • Vilayat Inayat Khan One must be aware that one is continually being tested in what one wishes most in order to make clear whether one's heart is on earth or in heaven.
    Vilayat Inayat Khan
    Teacher of meditation and of the traditions of Sufism (1882 - 1927)
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