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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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  • Charles L. Allen Why should you be content with so little? Why shouldn't you reach out for something big?
    Charles L. Allen
    American ordained United Methodist minister (1913 - 2005)
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  • Carl Safina Why would even I say we can't stop drilling in the Gulf? Because we have no alternatives. Whether or not we drill in the Gulf, or in Alaska, we will continue to wring the last out of anyplace else.
    Carl Safina
    American ecologist and author (1955 - )
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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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  • Samuel Johnson Wine gives a man nothing. It neither gives him knowledge nor wit; it only animates a man, and enables him to bring out what a dread of the company has repressed. It only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Abigail Adams Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.
    Abigail Adams
    Wife of John Adams (1744 - 1818)
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  • M. Henry Wise anger is like fire from a flint: there is great ado to get it out; and when it does come, it is out again immediately.
    M. Henry
     
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  • Billy Koch With a fresh start, I hope it'll work out good. I know the whole Fox story and how he came over here and had a great year for them. I'm hoping that's what it'll be - fresh start, new faces, new team, new city. I'm looking forward to getting out there.
    Billy Koch
     
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  • Alfred de Musset With a kiss let us set out for an unknown world.
    Alfred de Musset
    French writer (1810 - 1857)
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  • C. C. H. Pounder With acting, I started very young, and I'd performed for a lot of children in boarding schools, late at night after the dormitory lights were out. I'd have a flashlight, and I'd be Count Dracula, or Shakespeare, or Yogi Bear, and leap from bunk to bunk. I loved the laughter; I liked the way it made people feel.
    C. C. H. Pounder
    Guyanese–American actress
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  • Charles Dickens With affection beaming in one eye, and calculation shining out of the other.
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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  • Bobby Hatfield With me and Bill... I think we started out with $15 apiece and split the other $20 between the band.
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  • Robert Pollok With one hand he put a penny in the urn of poverty, and with the other took a shilling out.
    Robert Pollok
     
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  • Carolyn Chute With upper- and middle-class lawns, there's more hidden, whereas with working-class or poor lawns, there's more out to see. It just sits right out there. Very honest. Like the people.
    Carolyn Chute
    American writer and populist
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  • Bjarne Stroustrup Within C++, there is a much smaller and cleaner language struggling to get out.
    Bjarne Stroustrup
    Danish computer scientist (1950 - )
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  • Camille Paglia Within the U.S., the Obama presidency will be mainly measured by the success or failure of his economic policies. And here, I fear, the monstrous stimulus package with which this administration stumbled out of the gate will prove to be Obama's Waterloo.
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Lao-Tzu Without stirring abroad, one can know the whole world; Without looking out of the window one can see the way of heaven. The further one goes the less one knows.
    Lao-Tzu
    Chinese philosopher (600 - 550)
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  • Louise Erdrich Women are strong, strong, terribly strong. We don't know how strong until we're pushing out our babies.
    Louise Erdrich
    American author (1954 - )
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  • Andrea Dworkin Women have been taught that, for us, the earth is flat, and that if we venture out, we will fall off the edge. Some of us have ventured out nevertheless, and so far we have not fallen off. It is my faith, my feminist faith, that we will not.
    Andrea Dworkin
    American radical feminist and writer (1946 - 2005)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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