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  • Aaron Eckhart But then, even with sex, I'm more in the school of less is more in movies.
    Aaron Eckhart
    American actor (1968 - )
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  • Brent Scowcroft But there is scant evidence to tie Saddam to terrorist organizations, and even less to the Sept. 11 attacks.
    Brent Scowcroft
    American US Air Force officer (1925 - 2020)
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  • Arianna Huffington But you have to do what you dream of doing even while you're afraid.
    Arianna Huffington
    Greek-American author, syndicated columnist, and businesswoman (1950 - )
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  • Billy Bragg But, in the end, even a song that's as politically bland as Blowin in the Wind, you probably wouldn't get up and sing that now, whereas some of Bob Dylan's love songs that were contemporary with that, like say Girl from the North Country, you can still get up an play now.
    Billy Bragg
    English singer-songwriter (1957 - )
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  • Edmund Burke By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • Adolf Hitler By the skillful and sustained use of propaganda, one can make a people see even heaven as hell or an extremely wretched life as paradise.
    Adolf Hitler
    German politician (1889 - 1945)
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  • Andrea Dworkin By the time we are women, fear is as familiar to us as air. It is our element. We live in it, we inhale it, we exhale it, and most of the time we do not even notice it. Instead of ''I am afraid,'' we say, ''I don't want to,'' or ''I don't know how,'' or ''I can't.''
    Andrea Dworkin
    American radical feminist and writer (1946 - 2005)
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  • Bryant H. McGill Callousness and insolence bring to bare unanimous social condemnation, while the simple efforts of politeness are admired; even in those who are otherwise despised.
    Bryant H. McGill
    American journalist and author (1969 - )
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  • Anita Hill Certainly my life will not ever be as private and discreet, and perhaps I should even use the word insulated, as it was before.
    Anita Hill
    American lawyer and academic (1956 - )
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  • Simone Signoret Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads which sew people together through the years. That is what makes a marriage last - more than passion or even sex!
    Simone Signoret
    French actress (ps. of Simone Kaminker) (1921 - 1985)
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  • Richard Hooker Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better.
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  • Adolf Loos Changes in the traditional way of building are only permitted if they are an improvement. Otherwise stay with what is traditional, for truth, even if it be hundreds of years old has a stronger inner bond with us than the lie that walks by our side.
    Adolf Loos
    Austrian and Czechoslovak architect (1870 - 1933)
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  • Bruce Schneier Chaos is hard to create, even on the Internet. Here's an example. Go to Amazon.com. Buy a book without using SSL. Watch the total lack of chaos.
    Biancuzzi, Federico (2005)
    Bruce Schneier
    American cryptographer, computer security professional and writer (1963 - )
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  • Clarence Darrow Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails.
    Clarence Darrow
    American Lawyer (1857 - 1938)
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  • Percy Bysshe Shelley Chastity is a monkish and evangelical superstition, a greater foe to natural temperance even than unintellectual sensuality.
    Percy Bysshe Shelley
    English poet (1792 - 1822)
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  • Harry Emerson Fosdick Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.
    Harry Emerson Fosdick
    American minister (1878 - 1969)
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  • Bruno Dumont Cinema builds memories; great films continue to exist in the spectator's mind. We are naturally capable of and prone to nostalgia. A spectator will reconstruct a film he or she has seen, years later, and may even change their original opinion. One critic, for example, once gave the finger to one of my films; later he wrote me to apologize.
    Bruno Dumont
    French film director and screenwriter (1958 - )
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  • Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt Coercion may prevent many transgressions; but it robs even actions which are legal of a part of their beauty. Freedom may lead to many transgressions, but it lends even to vices a less ignoble form.
    Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt
    German statesman (1767 - 1835)
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  • Eric Hoffer Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul: where there is compassion even the most poisonous impulses remain relatively harmless.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Louisa May Alcott Conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long; even if it is, the consciousness of possessing and using it well should satisfy one, and the great charm of all power is modesty.
    Louisa May Alcott
    American Author (1832 - 1888)
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