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  • Oscar Wilde In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Michael Ondaatje In Canada pianos needed water. You opened up the back and left a full glass of water, and a month later the glass would be empty. Her father had told her about the dwarfs who drank only at pianos, never in bars.
    De Engelse patient (2011) 67
    Michael Ondaatje
    Sri Lankan-born Canadian poet, fiction writer (1943 - )
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  • Will Rogers In Hollywood the woods are full of people that learned to write but evidently can't read. If they could read their stuff, they'd stop writing.
    Will Rogers
    American actor and humorist (1879 - 1935)
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  • Bill Dedman In Illinois, where legislators are paid $45,000, plus as much as $10,000 for leadership work, about half are full-time politicians.
    Bill Dedman
    American journalist (1960 - )
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  • Louis de Bernieres In reality the world is as full of bad mothers as it is of bad fathers, and it is not the motherless children who become delinquent but the fatherless ones.
    Louis de Bernieres
    British novelist (1954 - )
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  • Henry Ward Beecher In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Asa Gray Indeed upon much that may have to say, I expect rather the charitable judgment than the full assent of those whose approbation I could most wish to win.
    Asa Gray
    American botanist (1810 - 1888)
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  • Benjamin Graham Instead of passing blithely over into that Promised Land, flowing almost literally with milk and honey, it may be our destiny to wander a full 40 years or more in the wilderness of doubt and divided sentiments.
    Storage and Stability Part I, Ch. I, The Changing Role of Surplus Stocks
    Benjamin Graham
    British-born American economist, professor and investor (1894 - 1976)
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  • Bob Marley It is better to live on the house top
    than to live in a house full of confusion
    Song Lyrics Running Away, from the album Kaya
    Bob Marley
    Jamaican singer-songwriter (1945 - 1981)
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  • Bill Flores It is important that we take full advantage of the RSC's size, character and the passion of its members to advance our conservative agenda in order to restore America to the 'shining city on a hill' that Ronald Reagan envisioned.
    Bill Flores
    American businessman and politician (1954 - )
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  • Patrick Kavanagh It is impossible to read the daily press without being diverted from reality. You are full of enthusiasm for the eternal verities - life is worth living, and then out of sinful curiosity you open a newspaper. You are disillusioned and wrecked.
    Patrick Kavanagh
    Irish poet and novelist (1904 - 1967)
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  • Burgess Owens It is not a fun process to run full-tilt toward guys who are running toward you full-tilt.
    Burgess Owens
    American football player (1951 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson It is not length of life, but depth of life.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Arthur Schopenhauer It is only at the first encounter that a face makes its full impression on us.
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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  • Brad Henry It is only through raising expectations and striving for excellence that our children can reach their full potential.
    Brad Henry
    American lawyer and politician (1963 - )
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  • Arthur Capper It is our duty to see that our future citizens are well born; that they are properly nourished, and are reared in that environment most likely to develop in them their full capacity and powers.
    Arthur Capper
    American politician (1865 - 1951)
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  • Bill Pascrell It is shameful that millions of Americans are suffering the economic injustice of working a full-time job and earning a wage that leaves them below the poverty line.
    Bill Pascrell
    American politician (1937 - )
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  • Bram Stoker It is the eve of St. George's Day. Do you not know that tonight, when the clock strikes midnight, all the evil things in the world will have full sway?
    Dracula
    Bram Stoker
    Irish author (1847 - 1912)
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  • Charles Baudelaire It is unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more than an orgy of the common man. Instead of being a sudden impulse full of ardor and reverie, it becomes a distastefully utilitarian affair.
    Charles Baudelaire
    French poet (1821 - 1867)
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne It is very easy to accuse a government of imperfection, for all mortal things are full of it.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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