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  • Bonnie Bedelia Whenever there's heavy-duty emotional work to be done, they call me. As for playing the completely off-the-wall, sexy, gorgeous lady that I am - no, they don't think of me.
    Bonnie Bedelia
    American actress (1948 - )
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  • Samuel Johnson Where secrecy or mystery begins, vice or roguery is not far off.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Allen Klein Whether planned or not, humor takes our mind off of our troubles.
    Allen Klein
    American businessman, music publisher (1931 - 2009)
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  • Bobby Scott While we must ensure that these dangerous new drugs and precursors do not get in the hands of children or others who would use them improperly, we must also be aware that these same drugs have legitimate uses.
    Bobby Scott
    American politician (1947 - )
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  • Bill Hicks Why is pot against the law? It wouldn't be because anyone can grow it, and therefore you can't make a profit off it, would it?
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    Bill Hicks
    American stand-up comedian, social critic, satirist and musician (1961 - 1994)
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  • Philip Larkin Why should I let the toad work Squat on my life? Can't I use my wit as a pitchfork and drive the brute off?
    Philip Larkin
    English poet, novelist and librarian (1922 - 1985)
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  • Lord Burleigh Win hearts, and you have hands and purses.
    Lord Burleigh
    English statesman
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  • Ezra Pound With one day's reading a man may have the key in his hands.
    Ezra Pound
    American poet (1885 - 1972)
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  • Bayard Taylor With rushing winds and gloomy skies The dark and stubborn Winter dies: Far-off, unseen, Spring faintly cries, Bidding her earliest child arise; March!
    Bayard Taylor
    American poet, travel author, and diplomat (1825 - 1878)
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  • Jean Baudrillard With the truth, you need to get rid of it as soon as possible and pass it on to someone else. As with illness, this is the only way to be cured of it. The person who keeps truth in his hands has lost.
    Jean Baudrillard
    French sociologist and philosopher. (1929 - 2007)
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  • Louis Ferdinand Céline With two thousand years of Christianity behind him... a man can't see a regiment of soldiers march past without going off the deep end. It starts off far too many ideas in his head.
    Louis Ferdinand Céline
    French writer (1894 - 1961)
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  • Jean Paul Getty Without the element of uncertainty, the bringing off of even, the greatest business triumph would be dull, routine, and eminently unsatisfying.
    Jean Paul Getty
    American-born British industrialist, founder of Getty Oil Company (1892 - 1976)
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  • Caroline Knapp Women are actually superb at math; they just happen to engage in their own variety of it, an intricate personal math in which desires are split off from one another, weighed, balance, traded, assessed.
    Caroline Knapp
    American writer and columnist
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  • Lord George Byron Women hate everything which strips off the tinsel of sentiment, and they are right, or it would rob them of their weapons.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Andrea Dworkin Women have been taught that, for us, the earth is flat, and that if we venture out, we will fall off the edge. Some of us have ventured out nevertheless, and so far we have not fallen off. It is my faith, my feminist faith, that we will not.
    Andrea Dworkin
    American radical feminist and writer (1946 - 2005)
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  • Aldous Huxley Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one's never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • George Eliot Would not love see returning penitence afar off, and fall on its neck and kiss it?
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Julie Burchill Writing is more than anything a compulsion, like some people wash their hands thirty times a day for fear of awful consequences if they do not. It pays a whole lot better than this type of compulsion, but it is no more heroic.
    Julie Burchill
    British journalist, writer
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  • Robert A. Heinlein Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards.
    Robert A. Heinlein
    American science fiction writer (1907 - 1988)
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  • Germaine Greer Yet if a woman never lets herself go, how will she ever know how far she might have got? If she never takes off her high-heeled shoes, how will she ever know how far she could walk or how fast she could run?
    Germaine Greer
    Australian writer and public intellectual (1939 - )
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