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  • Bernice Johnson Reagon One of the biggest things I understood in a program like that was that it allowed more young African American scholars to do field research in the Caribbean and in Africa than had ever happened before in the history of the country and since.
    Bernice Johnson Reagon
    American composer, scholar, and social activist (1942 - )
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  • Henry Miller One of the few reasons why so few of us ever act, instead of reacting, is because we are continually stifling our deepest impulses.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • Ziad K. Abdelnour One of the hardest decisions you'll ever face in life is choosing whether to walk away or try harder.
    Economic Warfare: Secrets of Wealth Creation in the Age of Welfare Politics
    Ziad K. Abdelnour
    American banker (1960 - )
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  • Dorothy Canfield Fisher One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.
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  • John Ruskin One of the prevailing sources of misery and crime is in the generally accepted assumption, that because things have been wrong a long time, it is impossible they will ever be right.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Josh Billings One of the rarest things that a man ever does, is to do the best he can.
    Josh Billings
    American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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  • Albert Einstein One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Rose Macaulay One should, I think, always give children money, for they will spend it for themselves far more profitably than we can ever spend it for them.
    A casual commentary
    Rose Macaulay
    English writer (1881 - 1958)
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  • Butch Trucks One that really caught me was Joe Morello. He was the first drummer I ever saw that could do a roll with one hand. He would turn his hand over and use his fingertips to get the stick bouncing. He could sit there with his right hand doing stuff on the cymbals and tom-toms while he was doing a roll with his left on the snare drum.
    Butch Trucks
    American musician (1947 - 2017)
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  • Bee Wilson One thing I always make - and I'm sure this is partly to do with memory and yearning and because I've made it ever since my children were born - I make gingerbread every year. And it's partly just the perfume of the spices in the house, makes it smell like winter to me.
    Bee Wilson
    British food writer, journalist and historian
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  • Ace Frehley One thing I love to do is produce. I've produced a couple of bands. I mean, nothing ever really happened with 'em, but I enjoy getting a young band into the studio and guiding them, and making them feel at ease.
    Ace Frehley
    American musician and songwriter (1951 - )
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  • Richard Nixon Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.
    Richard Nixon
    American president (1913 - 1994)
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  • E. Glasgow Only morons would ever think of themselves as intellectuals. That's why they all look so sad.
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  • Oscar Wilde Only people who look dull ever get into the House of Commons, and only people who are dull ever succeed there.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • John Milton Our country is where ever we are well off.
    John Milton
    English poet, polemicist and man of letters (1608 - 1674)
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  • Bill Simmons Our favorite teams bring people together, keep family members close, bond people from different generations. Some of the happiest moments of my life involve something that happened with one of my teams. Some of the best relationships I ever had were with Boston athletes that I never even met.
    Bill Simmons
    American sports analyst and author (1969 - )
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  • George Eliot Our impartiality is kept for abstract merit and demerit, which none of us ever saw.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Henry David Thoreau Our moments of inspiration are not lost though we have no particular poem to show for them; for those experiences have left an indelible impression, and we are ever and anon reminded of them.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Alexander Pope Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Bob Filner Our policy for the last many years has been to deter the Chinese government in Beijing from ever coming into the position where they thought they had enough leverage over the U.S. to cross the Straits of Taiwan.
    Bob Filner
    American politician (1942 - )
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