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  • Brent Scowcroft So far the changes in the president in his second term have been mainly of a rhetorical nature.
    Brent Scowcroft
    American US Air Force officer (1925 - 2020)
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  • Art Buchwald So far things are going my way. I am known in the hospice as The Man Who Wouldn't Die. I don't know if this is true or not, but I think some people, not many, are starting to wonder why I'm still around.
    Art Buchwald
    American humorist (1925 - 2007)
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  • Anna Louise Strong So far we have not convinced the Chinese authorities. My own brother was refused a visa on what was probably my last chance of seeing him when he was going around the world on a tour. Scott Nearing was similarly refused.
    Anna Louise Strong
    American journalist and activist (1885 - 1970)
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  • Bob Inglis So I submit to my colleagues here today that hydrogen is not as far away as we think it is.
    Bob Inglis
    American politician (1959 - )
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  • Barbara Boxer So when you go up against the Far Right you go up against the big financial special interests like the Halliburtons of the world, the big oil companies, the big energy companies who work so hard to rip us off.
    Barbara Boxer
    American politician (1940 - )
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  • Barack Obama So while I will never minimize the costs involved in military action, I am convinced that a failure to act in Libya would have carried a far greater price for America.
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Simone de Beauvoir Society cares for the individual only so far as he is profitable.
    Simone de Beauvoir
    French writer and philosopher (1908 - 1986)
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  • Bill Gates Software suppliers are trying to make their software packages more 'user-friendly' [...] Their best approach, so far, has been to take all the old brochures, and stamp the words, 'user-friendly' on the cover.
    Bill Gates
    American business magnate, investor, author and philanthropist (1955 - )
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  • Nicolas Chamfort Sometimes apparent resemblance of character will bring two men together and for a certain time unite them. But their mistake gradually becomes evident, and they are astonished to find themselves not only far apart, but even repelled, in some sort, at all their points of contact.
    Nicolas Chamfort
    French writer, journalist and playwright (1741 - 1794)
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  • Burt Bacharach Somewhere there's a happy harbor
    far from the storm.
    Out where the sun shines there is someone
    I'm meant to adore,
    and I know the day I find her,
    I'll smile once more.
    Song Nikki
    Burt Bacharach
    American composer, songwriter and pianist (1928 - 2023)
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  • Theodore Roosevelt Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.
    Theodore Roosevelt
    American statesman (1858 - 1919)
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  • Aneurin Bevan Stand not too near the rich man lest he destroy thee - and not too far away lest he forget thee.
    Aneurin Bevan
    British Labor politician (1897 - 1960)
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  • Anna Lindh Still, corruption and oppression are far too common threats to the democratic society.
    Anna Lindh
    Swedish Social Democratic politician (1957 - 2003)
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  • Audrey Hepburn Success is like reaching an important birthday and finding you're exactly the same.
    Audrey Hepburn
    British actress, model, dancer and humanitarian (1929 - 1993)
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  • Carl E. Olson Superficial similarities exist between Christianity and some ancient pagan religions. But careful study reveals that there are far more dissimilarities.
    Carl E. Olson
    American author
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  • Baruch Spinoza Surely human affairs would be far happier if the power in men to be silent were the same as that to speak. But experience more than sufficiently teaches that men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more easily than their words.
    Baruch Spinoza
    Dutch philosopher (1632 - 1677)
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  • Carl von Clausewitz Surprise becomes effective when we suddenly face the enemy at one point with far more troops than he expected. This type of numerical superiority is quite distinct from numerical superiority in general: it is the most powerful medium in the art of war.
    On War (1832)
    Carl von Clausewitz
    Prussian general and military theorist (1780 - 1831)
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  • Brit Hume Surveys have shown going back as far as you and I can remember that people have perceived a leftward tilt in the basic coverage that they get on TV news.
    Brit Hume
    American journalist and political commentator (1943 - )
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  • Jean Cocteau Tact in audacity consists in knowing how far we may go too far.
    Jean Cocteau
    French writer (1889 - 1963)
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  • Jean Cocteau Tact is knowing how far to go too far.
    Jean Cocteau
    French writer (1889 - 1963)
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