Quotes with five-point

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  • Carl Schurz We have come to a point where it is loyalty to resist, and treason to submit.
    Source: State Rights and Byron Paine, Albany Hall, Milwaukee, (23 March 1859)
    Carl Schurz
    American statesman, journalist, and reformer (1829 - 1906)
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  • Bjorn Lomborg We have to be aware that the scientific community throws up tons of different hypotheses and at a certain point we'll find out who was right and who was wrong. But we have to go with the best information right now, which I would claim to be the IPCC reports.
    Bjorn Lomborg
    Danish author (1965 - )
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  • B. W. Powe We have to learn how to contact one another over an enormous land space, across five-and-a-half time zones, in what as once a wilderness of scattered settlements, in what is now a sprawl of suburban edge cities and satellite towns. Technology forges connections and disconnections here.
    Source: Towards A Canada of Light First Meditation, p. 35
    B. W. Powe
    Canadian poet, novelist and teacher (1955 - )
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  • Bob Graham We need to have a strong defense focused on areas that are in the greatest vulnerability. I have been very concerned about America's 361 seaports as a point in which terrorist activities and materials could be brought into the country.
    Bob Graham
    American politician and author (1936 - )
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  • Betty Friedan We need to see men and women as equal partners, but it's hard to think of movies that do that. When I talk to people, they think of movies of forty-five years ago! Hepburn and Tracy!
    Betty Friedan
    American feministisch writer (1921 - 2006)
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  • Henry Ward Beecher We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Adrian Smith We try and stay out of the corporate side of it. The band has never compromised. At some point in our career we could have made a certain type of record and sold millions of units, as they are called.
    Adrian Smith
    English guitarist and pianist (1957 - )
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  • Buck Owens We used to get one room and we'd park the vehicle outside, everybody would all take showers and we'd steal towels because we knew we wasn't gonna have enough towels for all five of us to shower.
    Buck Owens
    American musician, singer, songwriter (1929 - 2006)
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  • Cab Calloway We usually never got out of there before four or five o'clock in the morning. Every morning. So it was rough.
    Cab Calloway
    American jazz singer, dancer, bandleader and actor (1907 - 1994)
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  • Bill Bruford We were from totally different social backgrounds. This is what is very hard for an American to understand, but we could have been five guys from Mars.
    Bill Bruford
    English drummer, composer and producer (1949 - )
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  • Anita Borg We're at unique point in history where the things that we are building are going to significantly impact our social, political, economical, and personal lives.
    Anita Borg
    American computer scientist (1949 - 2003)
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  • Helen Rowland Wedding: the point at which a man stops toasting a woman and begins roasting her.
    Helen Rowland
    American journalist (1875 - 1950)
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  • Bernhard Langer Well, the memories were obviously - every match is important, every point counts, especially the last sort of 18, 20 years when the matches have been so tight.
    Bernhard Langer
    German professional golfer (1957 - )
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  • Bliss Carman What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease.
    Bliss Carman
    Canadian poet (1861 - 1929)
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  • Bernard Cornwell What I mean by that is that the point of life, as I see it, is not to write books or scale mountains or sail oceans, but to achieve happiness, and preferably an unselfish happiness.
    Bernard Cornwell
    British author of historical novels (1944 - )
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  • Bernhard Schlink What I really like about law is that it's not an endless discourse like history or philosophy. In law, there comes a point where problems have to be solved, and cases decided.
    Bernhard Schlink
    German lawyer, academic, and novelist (1944 - )
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  • Barry Commoner What is new is that environmentalism intensely illuminates the need to confront the corporate domain at its most powerful and guarded point - the exclusive right to govern the systems of production.
    Barry Commoner
    American cellular biologist, college professor, and politician (1917 - 2012)
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  • Oscar Wilde What is said of a man is nothing. The point is, who says it.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Alan Watts What the devil is the point of surviving, going on living, when it's a drag? But you see, that's what people do.
    Alan Watts
    English philosopher, priest and writer (1915 - 1973)
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  • Caspar David Friedrich What the newer landscape artists see in a circle of a hundred degrees in Nature they press together unmercifully into an angle of vision of only forty-five degrees. And furthermore, what is in Nature separated by large spaces, is compressed into a cramped space and overfills and over-satiates the eye, creating an unfavorable and disquieting effect on the viewer.
    Caspar David Friedrich
    German landscape painter (1774 - 1840)
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