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  • Carolyn Chute Every time I think I know what's right and wrong, I end up being wrong. All I want to do is explore. I want to see what people would do. I say, 'What would this person do in this situation?' and I write it down. I'm not writing manifestos of my political views.
    Carolyn Chute
    American writer and populist
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  • Bob Beauprez Every time Washington regulators pass down another heavy-handed rule or levy another hefty fine, Colorado loses potential jobs, revenue, and economic security.
    Bob Beauprez
    American politician and member (1948 - )
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  • Ben Shapiro Every time we rock our babies in the night, we bring order back to a disordered world. Every time we look down at our children and cry, we make the world one shade brighter. That's what children do to us - and for us.
    Ben Shapiro
    American conservative political commentator and attorney (1984 - )
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  • Brendan Dooling Every young male actor dreams of being James Bond in an action movie. And that's their first role. But the truth is, when it comes down to it, that's not relatable.
    Brendan Dooling
    American actor (1990 - )
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  • David Foster Wallace Everybody is identical in their secret unspoken belief that way deep down they are different from everyone else.
    David Foster Wallace
    American author (1962 - 2008)
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  • Saul Bellow Everybody knows there is no fineness or accuracy of suppression; if you hold down one thing, you hold down the adjoining.
    Saul Bellow
    American writer (1915 - 2005)
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  • Cab Calloway Everybody that you could name would join in our audiences from, Laguardia on down. Everybody came. Everybody came to the Cotton Club.
    Cab Calloway
    American jazz singer, dancer, bandleader and actor (1907 - 1994)
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  • Robert Louis Stevenson Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    Scottish writer and poet (1850 - 1894)
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  • Buddy Guy Everyone thinks because you're from the south you know everyone down there, but it's not like that; I never knew nothing about no Mississippi.
    Buddy Guy
    American blues guitarist and singer (1936 - )
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  • Paul Klee Everything vanishes around me, and works are born as if out of the void. Ripe, graphic fruits fall off. My hand has become the obedient instrument of a remote will.
    Paul Klee
    Swiss artist (1879 - 1940)
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  • John Updike Facts are generally overesteemed. For most practical purposes, a thing is what men think it is. When they judged the earth flat, it was flat. As long as men thought slavery tolerable, tolerable it was. We live down here among shadows, shadows among shadows.
    John Updike
    American writer and criticus (1932 - 2009)
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  • Bernie S. Siegel Feelings aroused by the touch of someone's hand, the sound of music, the smell of a flower, a beautiful sunset, a work of art, love, laughter, hope and faith - all work on both the unconscious and the conscious aspects of the self, and they have physiological consequences as well.
    Bernie S. Siegel
    American writer and pediatric surgeon (1932 - )
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  • Dhammapada Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death.
    Dhammapada
    collection of sayings of the Buddha in verse form
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  • Ingmar Bergman Film as dream, film as music. No art passes our conscience in the way film does, and goes directly to our feelings, deep down into the dark rooms of our souls.
    Ingmar Bergman
    Swedish stage and film director (1918 - 2007)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Find enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime Minister; write them down and you're a Shakespeare.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Ray Bradbury First you jump off the cliff and you build wings on the way down.
    Ray Bradbury
    American science-fiction writer (1920 - 2012)
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  • Fitzhugh Dodson First you write down your goal; your second job is to break down your goal into a series of steps, beginning with steps which are absurdly easy.
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  • T. S. Eliot Footfalls echo in the memory Down the passage which we did not take Towards the door we never opened Into the rose-garden. My words echo Thus, in your mind.
    T. S. Eliot
    British essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic (1888 - 1965)
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  • Hal Borland For all his learning or sophistication, man still instinctively reaches towards that force beyond. Only arrogance can deny its existence, and the denial falters in the face of evidence on every hand. In every tuft of grass, in every bird, in every opening bud, there it is.
    Hal Borland
    American author, journalist and naturalist
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  • Bruce Springsteen For an adult, the world is constantly trying to clamp down on itself. Routine, responsibility, decay of institutions, corruption: this is all the world closing in.
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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