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  • Edna St. Vincent Millay Set the foot down with distrust on the crust of the world - it is thin.
    Edna St. Vincent Millay
    American poet (1892 - 1950)
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  • D. H. Lawrence Sex goes through the rhythm of the year, in man and woman, ceaselessly changing: the rhythm of the sun in his relation to the earth.
    Lady Chatterley's Lover (1928)
    D. H. Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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  • George Eliot She was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit down with it as a lasting companion and make it a sharer in her thoughts.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Bruce Springsteen She went away, she cut me like a knife
    Hello beautiful thing, maybe you could save my life
    In just a glance, down here on magic street
    Loves a fool's dance
    And I ain't got much sense, but I still got my feet.
    Magic (2007) Girls in Their Summer Clothes
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Bill Kristol Shouldn't Democrats insist that Sen. Durbin step down as their whip, the number two man in their leadership?
    Bill Kristol
    American political analyst (1952 - )
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  • Barbara Boxer Since 1980, we've used reconciliation 22 times, and out of those times, Republicans used it 16 times. So, earth to my Republican friends, you can have your option but you cannot change these facts. They're in the Congressional Record.
    Barbara Boxer
    American politician (1940 - )
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  • Burton Richter Since stepping down as laboratory director in 1999, I have devoted an increasing fraction of my time to international issues. I am involved with energy, environment, and sustainability issues, particularly as they involve new energy sources free of greenhouse gases.
    Burton Richter
    American physicist (1931 - 2018)
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  • Bill Gates Since when has the world of computer software design been about what people want? This is a simple question of evolution. The day is quickly coming when every knee will bow down to a silicon fist, and you will all beg your binary gods for mercy.
    Bill Gates
    American business magnate, investor, author and philanthropist (1955 - )
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  • Billie Holiday Singing songs like 'The Man I Love' or 'Porgy' is no more work than sitting down and eating Chinese roast duck, and I love roast duck.
    Billie Holiday
    American jazz musician and singer-songwriter (1915 - 1959)
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  • Phyllis Mcginley Sisters are always drying their hair. Locked into rooms, alone, they pose at the mirror, shoulders bare, trying this way and that their hair, or fly importunate down the stair to answer the telephone.
    Phyllis Mcginley
    American poet and author (1905 - 1978)
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  • Thomas Henry Huxley Sit down before fact like a little child, and be prepared to give up every preconceived notion. Follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss Nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.
    Thomas Henry Huxley
    English biologist (1825 - 1895)
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  • Buffy Sainte-Marie Sixteen million colors in your palette are hard for any artist, especially a beginner, to turn down.
    Buffy Sainte-Marie
    Indigenous Canadian-American singer-songwriter and musician (1941 - )
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  • Dave Barry Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face.
    Dave Barry
    American humorist, writer
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  • Brody Jenner So many girls and guys want to find a girlfriend and settle down. But it's fun to be single.
    Brody Jenner
    American television personality, disc jockey and model (1983 - )
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  • Austan Goolsbee So more than 8 million people lost their jobs. It's going to take a significant push on our part and time before that comes down. I don't anticipate it coming down rapidly.
    Austan Goolsbee
    American economist (1969 - )
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  • Henry Vaughan So stick up ivy and the bays, and then restore the heathen ways, green will remind you of the Spring, though this great day denies the thing, and mortifies the earth, and all, but your wild revels, and loose hall.
    Henry Vaughan
    Welsh poet, author, translator and physician (1621 - 1695)
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  • Ben Shahn So, I was offered this job to come down there but first it was suggested that I take a trip around the country in the areas in which we worked to see what it's all about, and I tell you that was a revelation to me.
    Ben Shahn
    Lithuanian-born American artist (1898 - 1969)
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  • Jules Renard Socialism must come down from the brain and reach the heart.
    Jules Renard
    French writer (1864 - 1910)
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  • Victor Hugo Society is a republic. When an individual tries to lift themselves above others, they are dragged down by the mass, either by ridicule or slander.
    Victor Hugo
    French writer (1802 - 1885)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes Society is always trying in some way to grind us down to a single flat surface.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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