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  • Bert McCracken We definitely didn't want it to be anything like our first or second records. We wanted to experiment more than we ever had and take any new idea and run with it as far as we could.
    Bert McCracken
    American singer (1982 - )
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  • A. J. McLean We didn't realize there were that many boy bands until we started touring in Europe. I don't think we were ever affected by it since a lot of the groups in Europe didn't really sing live, but we did and would perform a cappella as well.
    A. J. McLean
    American singer (1978 - )
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  • Benedict Arnold We have a wretched motley crew, in the fleet; the marines the refuse of every regiment, and the seamen, few of them, ever wet with salt water.
    Source: Letter to General Gates (21 September 1776), in Battle of Valcour on Lake Champlain, October 11th, 1776 by Peter Sailly Palmer(1876) p. 5
    Benedict Arnold
    American military officer (1741 - 1801)
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  • Black Kettle We have been travelling through a cloud. The sky has been dark ever since the war began.
    Black Kettle
    Native Indian Cheyenne chief (1803 - 1868)
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  • Susie Orbach We know that ever woman wants to be thin. Our images of womanhood are almost synonymous with thinness.
    Susie Orbach
     
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  • G.W.F. Hegel We may affirm absolutely that nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion.
    G.W.F. Hegel
    German philosopher (1770 - 1831)
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  • Salman Rushdie We must conclude that it is not only a particular political ideology that has failed, but the idea that men and women could ever define themselves in terms that exclude their spiritual needs.
    Salman Rushdie
    Engels writer (1947 - )
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  • Aristotle Onassis We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds.
    Aristotle Onassis
    Greek shipping magnate (1906 - 1975)
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  • Ansel Adams We must remember that a photograph can hold just as much as we put into it, and no one has ever approached the full possibilities of the medium.
    Ansel Adams
    American landscape photographer and environmentalist (1902 - 1984)
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  • Barbara Lee We must use all the tools of American power in resolving disputes, including diplomacy. And we must have sufficient congressional debate and oversight before ever putting another U.S. solider in harm's way.
    Barbara Lee
    American politician (1946 - )
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  • Cary Fowler We now know that we cannot continue to put ever-increasing amounts of CO2 into the atmosphere. Actions have consequences. In fact, the consequences of past actions are already in the pipeline. Global temperatures are rising. Glaciers are melting. Sea levels are rising. Extreme weather events are multiplying.
    Cary Fowler
    American agriculturalist and businessman (1949 - )
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  • Bruce Barton We pay just as dearly for our triumphs as we do for our defeats. Go ahead and fail. But fail with wit, fail with grace, fail with style. A mediocre failure is as insufferable as a mediocre success. Embrace failure! Seek it out. Learn to love it. That may be the only way any of us will ever be free. Tom Robbins Before you give up hope, turn back and read the attacks that were made on Lincoln.
    Bruce Barton
    American Author, Advertising Executive (1886 - 1967)
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  • Blaise Pascal We sail within a vast sphere, ever drifting in uncertainty, driven from end to end.
    Source: Pensees
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Angela Davis We still have to struggle against the impact of racism, but it doesn't happen in the same way. I think it is much more complicated today than it ever was.
    Angela Davis
    American political activist, philosopher, academic, and author (1944 - )
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  • Bjorn Lomborg We worry about the seemingly ever-increasing number of natural catastrophes. Yet this is mainly a consequence of CNN - we see many more, but the number is roughly constant, and we manage to deal much better with them over time. Globally, the death rate from catastrophes has dropped about fifty-fold over the past century.
    Bjorn Lomborg
    Danish author (1965 - )
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  • Thomas Mann We, when we sow the seeds of doubt deeper than the most up-to-date and modish free-thought has ever dreamed of doing, we well know what we are about. Only out of radical skeptics, out of moral chaos, can the Absolute spring, the anointed Terror of which the time has need.
    Thomas Mann
    German author, critic and Nobel laureate in literature (1929) (1875 - 1955)
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  • Grace Speare Welcome every problem as an opportunity. Each moment is the great challenge, the best thing that ever happened to you . The more difficult the problem, the greater the challenge in working it out.
    Grace Speare
    American author (1927 - )
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  • Calista Flockhart Well, I don't think I've ever consciously come up with tricks and tools to, kind of, hide. I do think I'm a bit more vigilant, in terms of safety issues and things. And sometimes it is kind of nice to try to hold onto your anonymity.
    Calista Flockhart
    American actress (1964 - )
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  • Bruce Jackson Well, I think everybody's a little jealous of the Vietnam Wall, even people from wars that already have good monuments. You have a monument like the Wall and nobody ever forgets your war, you can bet on that.
    Bruce Jackson
    American folklorist, documentary filmmaker and writer (1936 - )
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  • Boyd Rice Well, I use the word Satanist, but I don't know if I ever really considered myself as somebody who's into Satan.
    Boyd Rice
    American musician (1956 - )
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