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  • Anne Northup Who I really am is the mother of six kids and Woody's wife.
    Anne Northup
    American politician and educator (1948 - )
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  • Bono Who in Ireland could have too much respect for organized religion? We've seen it tear our country in two. My mother was a Protestant. My father was a Catholic. And I learned that religion is often the enemy of God, actually.
    Source: CNN Larry King Weekend (2002)
    Bono
    Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
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  • Johann Kaspar Lavater Who in the same given time can produce more than others has vigor; who can produce more and better, has talents; who can produce what none else can, has genius.
    Johann Kaspar Lavater
    Swiss theologist and mysticist (1741 - 1801)
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  • Bunker Roy Who is a professional? A professional is someone who has a combination of competence, confidence and belief. A water diviner is a professional. A traditional midwife is a professional. A traditional bone setter is a professional. These are professionals all over the world. You find them in any inaccessible village around the world.
    Bunker Roy
    Indian social activist and educator (1945 - )
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  • Alec Guinness Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?
    Alec Guinness
    English actor (1914 - 2000)
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  • Carl Sagan Who is more humble? The scientist who looks at the universe with an open mind and accepts whatever it has to teach us, or somebody who says everything in this book must be considered the literal truth and never mind the fallibility of all the human beings involved?
    Source: Interview with Charlie Rose (1996)
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Epictetus Who is not attracted by bright and pleasant children, to prattle, to creep, and to play with them?
    Epictetus
    Roman philosopher (50 - 130)
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  • Alan Paton Who knows what we live, and struggle, and die?... Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom.
    Alan Paton
    South African author and anti-apartheid activist (1903 - 1988)
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  • Martin Luther Who loves not women, wine and song remains a fool his whole life long.
    Martin Luther
    German preacher (1483 - 1546)
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  • A. E. Housman Who made the world I cannot tell;
    'Tis made, and here am I in hell.
    My hand, though now my knuckles bleed,
    I never soiled with such a deed.
    Source: More Poems (1936) No. 19, st. 2
    A. E. Housman
    British poet (1859 - 1936)
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  • Carl Sandburg Who put up that cage? Who hung it up with bars, doors? Why do those on the inside want to get out? Why do those outside want to get in? What is this crying inside and out all the time? What is this endless, useless beating of baffled wings at these bars, doors, this cage?
    Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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  • Francis Bacon Who questions much, shall learn much, and retain much.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Basil Bunting Who says it's poetry, anyhow?
    My ten year old
    can do it and rhyme.
    Mr Hines says so, and he's a schoolteacher,
    he ought to know.
    Go and find work
    Source: Odes What The Chairman Told Tom, II:6
    Basil Bunting
    British poet (1900 - 1985)
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  • Alexander Pope Who shall decide when doctors disagree, And soundest casuists doubt, like you and me?
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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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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  • Sir Walter Raleigh Who so taketh in hand to frame any state or government ought to presuppose that all men are evil, and at occasions will show themselves so to be.
    Sir Walter Raleigh
    British courtier, writer (1552 - 1618)
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  • Amos Bronson Alcott Who speaks to the instincts speaks to the deepest in mankind, and finds the readiest response.
    Amos Bronson Alcott
    American educator and social reformer (1799 - 1888)
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  • Abraham Cowley Who that has reason, and his smell, Would not among roses and jasmin dwell?
    Abraham Cowley
    English poet (1618 - 1667)
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  • Billy Beane Who wants to get really granular with sabermetrics when you're going to see a two-and-a-half-hour Brad Pitt movie? You don't go to the cinema for a maths lesson.
    Billy Beane
    American baseball player (1962 - )
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  • Eliza Cook Who would not rather trust and be deceived?
    Eliza Cook
    English author and poet (1818 - 1889)
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