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  • Christopher Marlowe Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?
    Christopher Marlowe
    British Dramatist, Poet (1564 - 1593)
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  • Sir Walter Raleigh Who so desireth to know what will be hereafter, let him think of what is past, for the world hath ever been in a circular revolution; whatsoever is now, was heretofore; and things past or present, are no other than such as shall be again: Redit orbis in orbem.
    Sir Walter Raleigh
    British courtier, writer (1552 - 1618)
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  • Anne Frank Who would ever think that so much went on in the soul of a young girl?
    Anne Frank
    Jewish refugee and writer (1929 - 1945)
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  • Plato Whoever is detected in a shameful fraud is ever after not believed even if they speak the truth.
    Phaedrus
    Plato
    Greek philosopher (427 - 347)
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  • Dorothy Parker Why is it no one ever sent me yet one perfect limousine, do you suppose? Ah no, it's always just my luck to get one perfect rose.
    Dorothy Parker
    American humoristic writer (1893 - 1967)
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  • Boyle Roche Why should we put ourselves out of our way to do anything for posterity? For what has posterity ever done for us?
    Boyle Roche
    Irish politician
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  • Bob Knight Why talk now when so many things have been said without ever giving me a chance to talk?
    Bob Knight
    American basketball coach (1940 - )
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  • Herman Melville Why, ever since Adam, who has got to the meaning of this great allegory - the world? Then we pygmies must be content to have out paper allegories but ill comprehended.
    Herman Melville
    American author (1819 - 1891)
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  • Bonnie Blair Winning doesn't always mean being first. Winning means you're doing better than you've ever done before.
    Bonnie Blair
    American athlete and speed skater (1964 - )
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  • Clarence Darrow With all their faults, trade unions have done more for humanity than any other organization of men that ever existed. They have done more for decency, for honesty, for education, for the betterment of the race, for the developing of character in man, than any other association of men.
    Clarence Darrow
    American Lawyer (1857 - 1938)
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  • Arthur Laffer With the shrinking of the US economy, and it's shrinking very rapidly, you not only have more money, but you also have fewer goods. That's a classic double-whammy on inflation.
    Arthur Laffer
    American economist and author (1940 - )
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  • Bill Walton Without question, no hesitation, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was the best player I ever played against.
    Bill Walton
    American basketball player (1952 - )
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  • Carl Gustav Jung Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable.
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Norman Mailer Writing books is the closest men ever come to childbearing.
    Norman Mailer
    American writer (1923 - 2007)
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  • James Joyce Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins committed in previous lives. The English reading public explains the reason why.
    James Joyce
    Irish writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Billie Holiday Yes, the strong gets more
    While the weak ones fade
    Empty pockets don't ever make the grade
    Mama may have, Papa may have
    But God bless the child that's got his own
    That's got his own.
    God Bless The Child
    Billie Holiday
    American jazz musician and singer-songwriter (1915 - 1959)
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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Yes, we must ever be friends; and of all who offer you friendship Let me be ever the first, the truest, the nearest and dearest!
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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  • John Adams Yesterday the greatest question was decided which ever was debated in America; and a greater perhaps never was, nor will be, decided among men. A resolution was passed without one dissenting colony, ''that these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States.''
    John Adams
    President of the USA (2nd) (1735 - 1826)
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  • Germaine Greer Yet if a woman never lets herself go, how will she ever know how far she might have got? If she never takes off her high-heeled shoes, how will she ever know how far she could walk or how fast she could run?
    Germaine Greer
    Australian writer and public intellectual (1939 - )
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  • Sir Isaac Newton Yet one thing secures us what ever betide, the scriptures assures us the Lord will provide.
    Sir Isaac Newton
    British scientist, mathematician (1643 - 1727)
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