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  • Brion James Westerns was why I got into the business. I grew up on a small farm in California and all I ever wanted to do was to play gangsters and cowboys in movies.
    Brion James
    American actor (1945 - 1999)
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  • Margot Asquith What a pity, when Christopher Colombus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it.
    Margot Asquith
    Anglo-Scottish socialite, author, and wit (1864 - 1945)
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  • Raymond Williams What breaks capitalism, all that will ever break capitalism, is capitalists. The faster they run the more strain on their heart.
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  • Hermann Hesse What constitutes a real, live human being is more of a mystery than ever these days, and men - each one of whom is a valuable, unique experiment on the part of nature - are shot down wholesale.
    Hermann Hesse
    German-Swiss writer, poet and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1946) (1877 - 1962)
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  • John Stuart Mill What ever crushes individuality is despotism, no matter what name it is called.
    John Stuart Mill
    English economist (1806 - 1873)
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  • Edmund Burke What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • Hitopadesa What ever is the natural propensity of a person is hard to overcome. If a dog were made a king, he would still gnaw at his shoes laces.
    Hitopadesa
    Indian text in Sanskrit
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  • Edward Bulwer-Lytton What ever our wandering our happiness will always be found within a narrow compass, and in the middle of the objects more immediately within our reach.
    Edward Bulwer-Lytton
    English writer and poet (1803 - 1873)
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  • Hugh Blair What ever purifies the heart also fortifies it.
    Hugh Blair
    Scottish minister of religion, author and rhetorician (1718 - 1800)
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  • Napoleon Hill What ever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
    Napoleon Hill
    American self-help author (1883 - 1970)
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  • Samuel Johnson What ever the motive for the insult, it is always best to overlook it; for folly doesn't deserve resentment, and malice is punished by neglect.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Audre Lorde What I most regretted were my silences. Of what had I ever been afraid?
    Source: Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (2012) 41
    Audre Lorde
    American writer, feminist, womanist, librarian, and civil (1934 - 1992)
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  • Angela Davis What I think is different today is the lack of political connection between the black middle class and the increasing numbers of black people who are more impoverished than ever before.
    Angela Davis
    American political activist, philosopher, academic, and author (1944 - )
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  • Caitlin Moran What is feminism? Simply the belief that women should be as free as men, however nuts, dim, deluded, badly dressed, fat, receding, lazy, and smug they might be.
    Caitlin Moran
    English journalist, author, and broadcaster (1975 - )
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  • Sir William Osler What is the student but a lover courting a fickle mistress who ever eludes his grasp?
    Sir William Osler
    Canadian Physician (1849 - 1919)
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  • Caroline Knapp What is this drive to be thinner, prettier, better dressed, other? Who exactly is this other and what does she look like beyond the jacket she's wearing or the food she's not eating? What might we be doing, thinking, feeling about if we didn't think about body image, ever?
    Caroline Knapp
    American writer and columnist
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  • Burton Richter What lots of people have been trying to do ever since is find what's beyond the current Standard Model. So far, it has stood impervious to all attacks.
    Burton Richter
    American physicist (1931 - 2018)
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  • Burton Rascoe What no wife of a writer can ever understand is that a writer is working when he's staring out of the window.
    Burton Rascoe
     
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  • Abraham Cowley What shall I do to be for ever known,
    And make the age to come my own?
    Abraham Cowley
    English poet (1618 - 1667)
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  • Samuel Johnson What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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