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  • William Butler Yeats The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.
    William Butler Yeats
    Irish poet (1865 - 1939)
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  • Al Sharpton The boxing world is full of all kinds of corruption.
    Al Sharpton
    American civil rights activist, Baptist minister and talk show host (1954 - )
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  • Ba Jin The changes in the chief and the assistant chief surgeon were most noticeable. At first they felt that they were just fulfilling their duty to the injured worker but were very dubious about the result. But then, full of confidence they really began doing their best.
    A Battle For Life
    Ba Jin
    Chinese author and political activist (1904 - 2005)
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  • Seneca The courts of kings are full of people, but empty of friends.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Boyle Roche The cup of Ireland's misery has been overflowing for centuries and is not yet half full.
    Boyle Roche
    Irish politician
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  • Oscar Wilde The English country gentleman galloping after a fox - the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Barbara Deming The free man must be born before freedom can be won, and the brotherly man must be born before full brotherhood can be won. It will come into being only if we build it out of our very muscle and bone - by trying to act it out.
    Two essays: On anger, New men, new women : some thoughts on nonviolence
    Barbara Deming
    American feminist and advocate (0 - 1984)
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  • Bryce Harper The full thing is God-given. I don't know how I got my swing or what I did. I know I worked every single day. I know I did as much as I could with my dad. But I never really looked at anything mechanical. There was nothing really like, 'Oh, put your hands here.' It was, 'Where are you comfortable? You're comfortable here; hit from there.'
    Bryce Harper
    American baseball player (1992 - )
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton The full value of this life can only be got by fighting; the violent take it by storm. And if we have accepted everything we have missed something - war. This life of ours is a very enjoyable fight, but a very miserable truce.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Charles de Gaulle The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
    Charles de Gaulle
    French statesman (1890 - 1970)
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  • Mahatma Gandhi The history of the world is full of men who rose to leadership, by sheer force of self-confidence, bravery and tenacity.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • Bill Hicks The idea of getting a, you know, syringe full of heroin and shooting it in the vein under my cock right now seems like almost a productive act.
    Im Sorry Folks
    Bill Hicks
    American stand-up comedian, social critic, satirist and musician (1961 - 1994)
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  • Carl Sagan The illegality of cannabis is outrageous, an impediment to full utilization of a drug which helps produce the serenity and insight, sensitivity and fellowship so desperately needed in this increasingly mad and dangerous world.
    Essay as Mr. X (1969)
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Michael Faraday The lecturer should give the audience full reason to believe that all his powers have been exerted for their pleasure and instruction.
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  • Alfred A. Montapert The main source of our wealth is goodness. The affections and the generous qualities that God admires in a world full of greed.
    Alfred A. Montapert
    American writer
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  • Bernard Goldberg The most meaningless term in the English language is 'I take full responsibility.' When a politician utters those words it means absolutely nothing.
    Bernard Goldberg
    American author and journalist (1945 - )
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  • Nicolas Chamfort The person is always happy who is in the presence of something they cannot know in full. A person as advanced far in the study of morals who has mastered the difference between pride and vanity.
    Nicolas Chamfort
    French writer, journalist and playwright (1741 - 1794)
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  • Betty Friedan The problem that has no name (which is simply the fact that American women are kept from growing to their full human capacities) is taking a far greater toll on the physical and mental health of our country than any known disease.
    The Feminine Mystique Ch. 14 A New Life Plan for Women
    Betty Friedan
    American feministisch writer (1921 - 2006)
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  • John Paul II The question confronting the Church today is not any longer whether the man in the street can grasp a religious message, but how to employ the communications media so as to let him have the full impact of the Gospel message.
    John Paul II
    Polish priest and later 264th Pope (1920 - 2005)
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  • Eric Hoffer The remarkable thing is that it is the crowded life that is most easily remembered. A life full of turns, achievements, disappointments, surprises, and crises is a life full of landmarks. The empty life has even its few details blurred, and cannot be remembered with certainty.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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