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  • Joseph Conrad The sea - this truth must be confessed - has no generosity. No display of manly qualities - courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness - has ever been known to touch its irresponsible consciousness of power.
    Joseph Conrad
    In Poland born English writer (1857 - 1924)
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  • Barry Cornwall The sea! the sea! the open sea!
    The blue, the fresh, the ever free!
    Source: The Sea, reported in Bartletts Familiar Quotations, 10th ed.
    Barry Cornwall
    English poet (pen name of Bryan Procter) (1787 - 1874)
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  • Barry Manilow The shows at the Hilton are the most exciting shows I've ever done. The stage is huge, but the theater is intimate, so we can have a magnificent production and still connect with the audience.
    Barry Manilow
    American singer-songwriter, producer and actor (1943 - )
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  • Iris Murdoch The sin of pride may be a small or a great thing in someone's life, and hurt vanity a passing pinprick, or a self-destroying or ever murderous obsession.
    Iris Murdoch
    Anglo-Irish novelist and philosopher (1919 - 1999)
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  • Tuckerman The soul, by an instinct stronger than reason, ever associates beauty with truth.
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  • William Blake The strongest poison ever known came from Caesar's laurel crown.
    William Blake
    English poet (1757 - 1827)
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  • Sholem Asch The sword conquered for a while, but the spirit conquers for ever!
    Sholem Asch
    Polish-Jewish novelist, dramatist, and essayist (0 - 1957)
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  • Carey Mulligan The thinnest I've ever been was after I had my appendix out, during the London run of The Seagull. I went down to 112 pounds and realized my brain doesn't work when I'm that thin, so I can't do my job. That's why, when I came out here, I never had that whole Hollywood pressure thing.
    Carey Mulligan
    English actress (1985 - )
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  • William Shakespeare The time is out of joint. O cursed spite that ever I was born to set it right!
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Arthur Laffer The trade deficit is the capital surplus and don't ever think of having a capital surplus as being a bad thing for our country.
    Arthur Laffer
    American economist and author (1940 - )
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  • Don DeLillo The true life is not reducible to words spoken or written, not by anyone, ever.
    Source: Point Omega (2010) 17
    Don DeLillo
    American Author (1936 - )
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  • Thomas Carlyle The true past departs not, no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die; but all is still here, and, recognized or not, lives and works through endless change.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Buddy Wakefield The truth is I am a perfect part of the exact point at which all individual human beings meet and the spectrum of voices weaving themselves in between and screaming 'every sick thought you've ever had and every twisted feeling you've ever felt are what make this painting complete.
    Source: Poetry
    Buddy Wakefield
    American poet and actor (1974 - )
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  • George Washington The tumultuous populace of large cities are ever to be dreaded. Their indiscriminate violence prostrates for the time all public authority, and its consequences are sometimes extensive and terrible.
    George Washington
    First president of the US (1732 - 1799)
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  • Cass Sunstein The U.S. is an optimistic nation. No candidate has ever won the American presidency by speaking primarily to people's deepest fears and by manufacturing a sense of apocalypse - that our leaders 'can't do anything right,' that things are utterly falling apart.
    Cass Sunstein
    American legal scholar (1954 - )
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  • Franklin D. Roosevelt The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written.
    Franklin D. Roosevelt
    American statesman (1882 - 1945)
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  • Charles Evans Hughes The United States is the greatest law factory the world has ever known.
    Charles Evans Hughes
    American statesman and Republican politician (1862 - 1948)
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  • Anais Nin The violence and obscenity are left unadulterated, as manifestation of the mystery and pain which ever accompanies the act of creation.
    Anais Nin
    French-born American Novelist, Dancer (1903 - 1977)
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  • Donald H. Mcgannon The world has more winnable people than ever before… but it is possible to come out of a ripe field empty-handed.
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  • Lord Chesterfield The world is a country which nobody ever yet knew by description; one must travel through it one's self to be acquainted with it.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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