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  • Armistead Maupin But I'm acutely aware that the possibility of fraud is even more prevalent in today's world because of the Internet and cell phones and the opportunity for instant communication with strangers.
    Armistead Maupin
    American writer (1944 - )
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  • Bruce Nauman But part of the enjoyment I take in it is finding the most efficient way to do it, which doesn't mean the corrections aren't made. I like to have a feeling of the whole task before I start, even if it changes.
    Bruce Nauman
    American artist (1941 - )
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  • George Eliot But the mother's yearning, that completest type of the life in another life which is the essence of real human love, feels the presence of the cherished child even in the debased, degraded man.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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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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  • Tacitus Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin.
    Tacitus
    Roman senator and historian (56 - 117)
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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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