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  • Wallace Stevens All the great things have been denied and we live in an intricacy of new and local mythologies, political, economic, poetic, which are asserted with an ever-enlarging incoherence.
    Wallace Stevens
    American poet (1879 - 1955)
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  • Bill Maris All the information in the world has been pretty dispersed, but Google's mission has been to organize it and make it universally accessible.
    Bill Maris
    American entrepreneur and venture capitalist
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  • Bradley Joseph All the information you need is available to you to have a successful career in music, if you're paying attention, and not closed off to anything. Remember, Perseverance is King.
    On running a label Indie Journal Interview
    Bradley Joseph
    American composer and producer
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  • Dale Carnegie All the king's horses and all the king's men can't put the past together again. So let's remember: Don't try to saw sawdust.
    Dale Carnegie
    American writer and lecturer (1888 - 1955)
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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow All the means of action - the shapeless masses - the materials - lie everywhere about us. What we need is the celestial fire to change the flint into the transparent crystal, bright and clear. That fire is genius.''
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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  • W. C. Fields All the men in my family were bearded, and most of the women.
    W. C. Fields
    American Actor (1880 - 1946)
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  • Joseph Rudyard Kipling All the money in the world is no use to a man or his country if he spends it as fast as he makes it. All he has left is his bills and the reputation for being a fool.
    Joseph Rudyard Kipling
    English writer (1865 - 1936)
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  • Baruch Spinoza All the objects pursued by the multitude not only bring no remedy that tends to preserve our being, but even act as hinderances, causing the death not seldom of those who possess them, and always of those who are possessed by them.
    On the Improvement of the Understanding
    Baruch Spinoza
    Dutch philosopher (1632 - 1677)
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  • Brad Holland All the other kids in ninth grade were drawing hot rods and cocker spaniels and getting blue ribbons in art class. I was getting rejection slips from the 'Saturday Evening Post.'
    Brad Holland
    American basketball player (1956 - )
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  • George Orwell All the papers that matter live off their advertisements, and the advertisers exercise an indirect censorship over news.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Joseph Rudyard Kipling All the people like us are We, and everyone else is They.
    Joseph Rudyard Kipling
    English writer (1865 - 1936)
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  • Bess Myerson All the praise I received couldn't substitute for the praise I had never received from my mother at home. I longed for some wonderful man to come and save me from my life - but there didn't seem to be any, at least not for me.
    Bess Myerson
    American politician and model (1924 - 2014)
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  • Andrew Jackson All the rights secured to the citizens under the Constitution are worth nothing, and a mere bubble, except guaranteed to them by an independent and virtuous Judiciary.
    Andrew Jackson
    American president (7th) (1767 - 1845)
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  • Alberto Giacometti All the sculptures of today, like those of the past, will end one day in pieces... So it is important to fashion ones work carefully in its smallest recess and charge every particle of matter with life.
    Alberto Giacometti
    Swiss sculptor, painter, draftsman and printmaker (1901 - 1966)
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  • James Freeman Clarke All the strength and force of man comes from his faith in things unseen. He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.
    James Freeman Clarke
    American theologian and author (1810 - 1888)
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  • George Bernard Shaw All the sweetness of religion is conveyed to the world by the hands of story-tellers and image-makers. Without their fictions the truths of religion would for the multitude be neither intelligible nor even apprehensible; and the prophets would prophesy and the teachers teach in vain.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Bill Bryson All the things that are part of your heritage make you British - that makes this country what it is. It's part of your history. And here, unlike America, it's still living history.
    Bill Bryson
    American-British author (1951 - )
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  • Peter Mcwilliams All the things you think you should have done that you didn't do, and all of the things that you shouldn't have done, accept them. You did (or did not) do them. That's reality. That's happened. No changing the past.
    Peter Mcwilliams
    American self-help author (1949 - 2000)
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  • George Orwell All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Bryan Burrough All the way back in 1999, when I first stumbled upon the idea of a project tracking John Dillinger and Baby Face Nelson and all the major Depression-era bank robbers, I thought the subject was too big to be a single book. Instead, with a friend's help, I pitched the idea as a miniseries to HBO. To my amazement, they bought it.
    Bryan Burrough
    American author and correspondent (1961 - )
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