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  • Boyle Roche All along the untrodden paths of the future, I can see the footprints of an unseen hand.
    Boyle Roche
    Irish politician
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  • Rebecca West All good biography, as all good fiction, comes down to the study of original sin, of our inherent disposition to choose death when we ought to choose life.
    Rebecca West
    British author (1892 - 1983)
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  • Sir Walter Scott All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.
    Sir Walter Scott
    British writer and poet (1771 - 1832)
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  • Logan Pearsall Smith All my life, as down an abyss without a bottom. I have been pouring van loads of information into that vacancy of oblivion I call my mind.
    Logan Pearsall Smith
    English writer (1865 - 1946)
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  • Bill Kurtis All vacations can come down to a few little moments - what do your remember when you're alone, totally relaxed and taken out of yourself to appreciate this other world.
    Bill Kurtis
    American television journalist (1940 - )
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  • Black Kettle All we ask is that we have peace with the whites. We want to hold you by the hand. You are our father.
    Black Kettle
    Native Indian Cheyenne chief (1803 - 1868)
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  • Laurence Sterne All womankind, from the highest to the lowest love jokes; the difficulty is to know how they choose to have them cut; and there is no knowing that, but by trying, as we do with our artillery in the field, by raising or letting down their breeches, till we hit the mark.
    Laurence Sterne
    British author (1713 - 1768)
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  • August Wilson All you need in the world is love and laughter. That's all anybody needs. To have love in one hand and laughter in the other.
    August Wilson
    American playwright (1945 - 2005)
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  • Wilson Mizner Always be nice to people on the way up; because you'll meet the same people on the way down.
    Wilson Mizner
    American Author (1876 - 1933)
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  • William Penn Always rise from the table with an appetite, and you will never sit down without one.
    William Penn
    English religious leader, founder of Pennsylvania (1644 - 1718)
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  • Bonnie Tyler Alzheimer's is a horrible thing. Some people are naive about it. They think, 'Oh it's just your memory,' but my mother was in terrible pain. Your body closes down. She didn't know if she'd eaten or if she wanted to eat. She couldn't remember how to walk. Towards the end, she didn't know us. It came gradually, then it got worse.
    Bonnie Tyler
    Welsh singer (1951 - )
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  • David Herbert Lawrence America does to me what I knew it would do: it just bumps me. The people charge at you like trucks coming down on you - no awareness. But one tries to dodge aside in time. Bump! bump! go the trucks. And that is human contact.
    David Herbert Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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  • Bill Gross Americans now know that housing prices can go down and they can go down by 10, 20, 30, and in some cases, 40 or 50 percent. We know they can go down. But five years ago, we thought they could only go up.
    Bill Gross
    American investor, fund manager, and philanthropist (1944 - )
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  • Thomas Jefferson An association of men who will not quarrel with one another is a thing which has never yet existed, from the greatest confederacy of nations down to a town meeting or a vestry.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • A. W. Tozer An idol of the mind is as offensive to God as an idol of the hand.
    A. W. Tozer
    American Christian pastor, preacher and author
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  • Carl Karcher And for a very special group of people, we've provided their only job. I'm speaking of course of the disabled. They have stated they don't want a hand out just a hand. We are happy to give them one.
    Carl Karcher
    American businessman (1917 - 2008)
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  • Edmund Burke And having looked to government for bread, on the very first scarcity they will turn and bite the hand that fed them. To avoid that evil, government will redouble the causes of it; and then it will become inveterate and incurable.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • Bertolt Brecht And I always thought: the very simplest words
    Must be enough. When I say what things are like
    Everyone's heart must be torn to shreds.
    That you'll go down if you don't stand up for yourself
    Surely you see that.
    Poems, 1913-1956 And I always thought [Und ich dachte immer] (c. 19
    Bertolt Brecht
    German - Austrian writer (1898 - 1956)
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  • Bob Dylan And I hope that you die
    And your death'll come soon
    I will follow your casket
    In the pale afternoon
    And I'll watch while you're lowered
    Down to your deathbed
    And I'll stand o'er your grave
    'Til I'm sure that you're dead
    The Freewheelin Bob Dylan (1963)
    Bob Dylan
    American musician (1941 - )
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  • Al Franken And I think that being able to make people laugh and write a book that's funny makes the information go down a lot easier and it makes it a lot more fun to read, easier to understand, and often stronger. So there's all kinds of advantages to it.
    Al Franken
    American comedian, politician and author (1951 - )
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