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  • I remember being in Hollywood at the age of 16 and marveling at the stars. The idea of being part of it never entered my mind. It was too far-fetched.
  • With care, and skill, and cunning art, She parried Time's malicious dart, And kept the years at bay, Till passion entered in her heart and aged her in a day!
  • She entered his dreams sane and left mad. She began with words of love and ended with sounds that frightened him.
  • In 1948 I entered the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, undecided between studies of chemistry and physics, but my first year convinced me that physics was more interesting to me.
  • The venerable emeritus professors still at Yale when I entered graduate school may have been reserved, puritanical WASPs, but they were men of honor who had given their lives to scholarship. Today in the elite schools, honor and ethics are gone.
  • The most powerful idea that's entered the world in the last few thousand years - the idea of grace - is the reason I would like to be a Christian.
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  • Abbe Pierre After the war, prompted by the Cardinal Archbishop of Paris, I entered Parliament so that a priest could speak out for the poor, as canon law at that time still permitted.
    Abbe Pierre
    French Catholic priest (born Henri Grous) (1912 - 2007)
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  • Tacitus All enterprises that are entered into with indiscreet zeal may be pursued with great vigor at first, but are sure to collapse in the end.
    Tacitus
    Roman senator and historian (56 - 117)
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  • Benazir Bhutto As a woman leader, I thought I brought a different kind of leadership. I was interested in women's issues, in bringing down the population growth rate... as a woman, I entered politics with an additional dimension - that of a mother.
    Benazir Bhutto
    Pakistani politician (1953 - 2007)
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  • Bhagavad Gita But they for whom I am the supreme goal, who do all work renouncing self for me and meditate on me with single-hearted devotion, these I will swiftly rescue from death's vast sea, for their consciousness has entered into me.
    Bhagavad Gita
    Indian Hindu storybook
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  • Ben Johnson Cares that have entered once in the breast, will have whole possession of the rest.
    Ben Johnson
    English playwright and poet (1572 - 1637)
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  • John D. Rockefeller Giving should be entered into in just the same way as investing. Giving is investing.
    John D. Rockefeller
    American industrialist: founder Exxon (1839 - 1937)
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  • Graham Greene He entered the territory of lies without a passport for return.
    Graham Greene
    English writer (1904 - 1991)
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  • Arthur W. Pinero I believe the future is only the past again, entered through another gate.
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  • Brock Lesnar I know of Conor McGregor. This sport has evolved even from when I first entered the octagon. I think people are finding out that you have to talk the talk, and you have to - more importantly, you have to walk the walk.
    Brock Lesnar
    American professional wrestler (1977 - )
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  • Arthur Godfrey I liked the way they treated the first, second, and third place finishers equally. It was an amazing year. I only entered two song contests this year; I won one and placed second in the other. And I entered each of them a day or two before the deadline.
    Arthur Godfrey
    American radio and television (1903 - 1983)
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  • George L. Jackson I met Marx, Lenin, Trotsky, Engels and Mao when I entered prison and they redeemed me.
    The Prison Letters of George Jackson (1970)
    George L. Jackson
    African-American author and activist
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  • Bryan Adams I remember being in Hollywood at the age of 16 and marveling at the stars. The idea of being part of it never entered my mind. It was too far-fetched.
    Bryan Adams
    Canadian singer, songwriter, record producer and guitarist (1959 - )
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  • Carol Shields I've never had the right words to describe my life, and now that I've entered my story, I need them more than ever.
    Middlesex (2003) 217
    Carol Shields
    American-born Canadian novelist (1935 - 2003)
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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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  • Burton Richter In 1948 I entered the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, undecided between studies of chemistry and physics, but my first year convinced me that physics was more interesting to me.
    Burton Richter
    American physicist (1931 - 2018)
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  • Alexis de Tocqueville Life is to entered upon with courage.
    Alexis de Tocqueville
    French aristocrat, political philosopher and sociologist (1805 - 1859)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Ogden Nash Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who cannot sleep with window shut, and a woman who cannot sleep with the window open.
    Ogden Nash
    American poet (1902 - 1971)
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  • Camille Paglia Metaphorically, every vagina has secret teeth, for the male exits as less than when he entered. The basic mechanics of conception require action in the male but nothing more than passive receptivity in the female.
    Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Barry Humphries Most of my contemporaries at school entered the World of Business, the logical destiny of bores.
    Barry Humphries
    Australian comedian, actor, artist, and author (1934 - 2023)
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