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  • Bradley A. Smith Ultimately, the court is heading to a doctrine of 'separation of campaign and state.' This doctrine, like separation of church and state or separation of military and civilian authority, is not explicit in the Constitution but flows naturally from its structure and commitment to freedom and democracy.
    Bradley A. Smith
    American law professor (1958 - )
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  • Andrea Dworkin Undernourished, intelligence becomes like the bloated belly of a starving child: swollen, filled with nothing the body can use.
    Andrea Dworkin
    American radical feminist and writer (1946 - 2005)
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  • Scott Alexander Understand that most problems are a good sign. Problems indicate that progress is being made, wheels are turning, you are moving toward your goals. Beware when you have no problems. Then you've really got a problem... Problems are like landmarks of progress.
    Scott Alexander
    American professional baseball pitcher (1989 - )
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  • Burgess Owens Unfortunately, I have been a little disappointed that we have issues out there like traditional marriage, abortion, school education, and we have so much silence from the black community, from black preachers, because they understand first hand the impact of all that.
    Burgess Owens
    American football player (1951 - )
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  • Susan Sontag Unfortunately, moral beauty in art - like physical beauty in a person - is extremely perishable. It is nowhere so durable as artistic or intellectual beauty. Moral beauty has a tendency to decay very rapidly into sententiousness or untimeliness.
    Susan Sontag
    American writer, filmmaker, teacher, and political activist (1933 - 2004)
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  • Bob Filner Unfortunately, my district like many others across the country has a problem with gangs, which is why I introduced this amendment.
    Bob Filner
    American politician (1942 - )
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  • Bruce Springsteen Until I realized that rock music was my connection to the rest of the human race, I felt like I was dying, for some reason, and I didn't know why.
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Anita Diamant Until very recently men and women inhabited very separate spheres. There was always interconnection, passion, love. But men and women didn't hang out at the end of the day and chat about what their day was like at the office.
    Anita Diamant
    American author (1951 - )
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  • Carlo Collodi Upon awakening he discovered that he was no longer a wooden puppet, but that he had become instead a boy, like all other boys.
    Pinocchio (1892)
    Carlo Collodi
    Italian author, humorist and journalist (1826 - 1890)
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  • Susan Sontag Using a camera appeases the anxiety which the work-driven feel about not working when they are on vacation and supposed to be having fun. They have something to do that is like a friendly imitation of work: they can take pictures.
    Susan Sontag
    American writer, filmmaker, teacher, and political activist (1933 - 2004)
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  • Bernard Malamud Usually when he forgot words he would wait for them to seep back into consciousness like fish drawn up to the hungry surface of a stream. He would remember the initial letter of the forgotten word or sense sounds in it; soon the word reappeared in an illumination.
    Bernard Malamud
    American novelist (1914 - 1986)
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  • Bjork Usually when you see females in movies, they feel like they have these metallic structures around them, they are caged in by male energy.
    Bjork
    Icelandic singer, songwriter and actress (1965 - )
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  • Britt Daniel Usually, whenever my mom would come over I would try and put on music that I thought she would like just to make her feel more at ease.
    Britt Daniel
    American musician (1971 - )
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  • Billy Campbell Vancouver is one of my favorite places on earth. It's gray and rainy there a lot of the time, but for some reason, even though it's gray and rainy, I feel like it's a sunny day.
    Billy Campbell
    American film and television actor (1959 - )
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  • Truman Capote Venice is like eating an entire box of chocolate liqueurs in one go.
    Truman Capote
    American writer (1924 - 1984)
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  • Adam Osborne Venture capitalists are like lemmings jumping on the software bandwagon.
    Adam Osborne
    British-American author and publisher (1939 - 2003)
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  • Bertrand Piccard Very often, human beings are living like on autopilot, reacting automatically with what happens. What interests me about the life of an explorer is you are in the unknown; you are out of your habits.
    Bertrand Piccard
    Swiss psychiatrist (1958 - )
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  • Finley Peter Dunne Vice is a creature of such hideous mien... that the more you see it the better you like it.
    Finley Peter Dunne
    American Journalist, Humorist (1867 - 1936)
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  • Ben Jonson Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment.
    Ben Jonson
    British Dramatist, Poet (1572 - 1637)
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  • Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a madhouse.
    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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