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  • Barbara Jordan Throughout out history, when people have looked for new ways to solve their problems, and to uphold the principles of this nation, many times they have turned to political parties. They have often turned to the Democratic Party.
    Speaking the truth with eloquent thunder
    Barbara Jordan
    American lawyer, educator and politician (1936 - 1996)
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  • Comte De Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont Throughout the centuries, man has considered himself beautiful. I rather suppose that man only believes in his own beauty out of pride; that he is not really beautiful and he suspects this himself; for why does he look on the face of his fellow-man with such scorn?
    Comte De Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont
    French author, poet (1846 - 1870)
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  • Ben Jonson Thus, in his belly, can he change a sin,
    Lust it comes out, that gluttony went in.
    The Works of Ben Jonson, First Folio CXVIII, On Gut, lines 5-6.
    Ben Jonson
    British Dramatist, Poet (1572 - 1637)
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  • Bill Rancic Tight hamstrings are fierce. And I'm guilty of not allocating the time that I should to stretch. I'll put the time in for the runs, but then I go, 'I have to go here. I've got to go there.' Usually, stretching is what gets cut out of the program, but it's so critical.
    Bill Rancic
    American entrepreneur (1971 - )
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  • Louise Erdrich Time is the water in which we live, and we breathe it like fish. ... Time pours into us and then pours out again. In between the two pourings we live our destiny.
    Louise Erdrich
    American author (1954 - )
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  • Billy Collins To a poet, it's quite ruinous to have a poem distorted, out of shape, or squeezed, shall we say, into this tiny screen. But I'm not sure big digital companies are sensitive to the needs of poets.
    Billy Collins
    American poet (1941 - )
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  • John Churton Collins To ask for advice is in nine cases out of ten to ask for flattery.
    John Churton Collins
    British literary critic (1848 - 1908)
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  • William Shakespeare To be honest, as this world goes, is to be. One man picked out of ten thousand.
    Hamlet 2,2
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Barbara Kingsolver To be hopeful, to embrace one possibility after another that is surely the basic instinct - crying out: High tide! Time to move out into the glorious debris. Time to take this life for what it is!
    Barbara Kingsolver
    American novelist, essayist and poet (1955 - )
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  • Maxwell Maltz To change a habit, make a conscious decision, then act out the new behavior.
    Maxwell Maltz
    American surgeon and author (1889 - 1975)
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  • Bobby Ghosh To conflict journalists, a tiny, tight-knit tribe, tragedy is practically an occupational requirement: our work requires us to seek it out, measure it, contextualize it, and chronicle it.
    Bobby Ghosh
    Indian-born American journalist and commentator
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  • W. M. Thackeray To endure is greater than to dare; to tire out hostile fortune; to be daunted by no difficulty; to keep heart when all have lost it; to go through intrigue spotless; to forego even ambition when the end is gained - who can say this is not greatness?
    W. M. Thackeray
    Indian-born, British novelist (1811 - 1863)
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  • John Dewey To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.
    John Dewey
    American philosopher (1859 - 1952)
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  • Arthur Schopenhauer To find out your real opinion of someone, judge the impression you have when you first see a letter from them.
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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  • Barry Marshall To gastroenterologists, the concept of a germ causing ulcers was like saying that the Earth is flat.
    Barry Marshall
    Australian physician, Nobel Prize Laureate in Physiology (1951 - )
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  • Victor Hugo To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.
    Victor Hugo
    French writer (1802 - 1885)
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  • Bethany Hamilton To lose your everyday life of surfing and being creative on waves, enjoying the ocean - that's scary to me. It was essential to at least try surfing again and get out there and see how it went.
    Bethany Hamilton
    American professional surfer (1990 - )
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  • Jean Baudrillard To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.
    Jean Baudrillard
    French sociologist and philosopher. (1929 - 2007)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Muriel Spark To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul. To Miss Mackay it is a putting in of something that is not there, and that is not what I call education, I call it intrusion.
    Muriel Spark
    British writer (1918 - 2006)
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