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  • Lord George Byron What should I have known or written had I been a quiet, mercantile politician or a lord in waiting? A man must travel, and turmoil, or there is no existence.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Joseph Brodsky What should I say about life? That it's long and abhors transparence.
    Joseph Brodsky
    Russian-born American Poet, Critic (1940 - 1996)
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  • Thomas Jefferson What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Henry David Thoreau What sort of philosophers are we, who know absolutely nothing about the origin and destiny of cats?
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Michelangelo What spirit is so empty and blind, that it cannot recognize the fact that the foot is more noble than the shoe, and skin more beautiful that the garment with which it is clothed?
    Michelangelo
    Italian sculptor, painter and poet (1475 - 1564)
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  • Tim O'Brien What sticks to memory, often, are those odd little fragments that have no beginning and no end.
    Source: De last die ze droegen (1990) 34
    Tim O'Brien
    American novelist (1946 - )
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  • Andrew Lloyd Webber What strikes me is that there's a very fine line between success and failure. Just one ingredient can make the difference.
    Andrew Lloyd Webber
    English composer and impresario (1948 - )
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  • Bee Wilson What strikes me, the more I cook, is that the best recipes are ones where the basic anatomy is so sound it will survive multiple adjustments. When a recipe has good bones, you can change the seasoning, double the garlic, swap lime for lemon, and it still turns out delicious.
    Bee Wilson
    British food writer, journalist and historian
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  • Burton Richter What struck me first on reading the Ten Hoeve-Jacobson paper was how small the consequences of the radiation release from the Fukushima reactor accident are projected to be compared to the devastation wrought by the giant earthquake and tsunami.
    Burton Richter
    American physicist (1931 - 2018)
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  • Bernie Sanders What the American people want to see in their president is somebody who not necessarily can win every fight, but they want to see him stand up and fight for what he believes, take his case to the American people.
    Bernie Sanders
    American politician (1941 - )
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  • Will Rogers What the country needs is dirtier fingernails and cleaner minds.
    Will Rogers
    American actor and humorist (1879 - 1935)
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  • Bertrand Piccard What the history of aviation has brought in the 20th century should inspire us to be inventors and explorers ourselves in the new century.
    Bertrand Piccard
    Swiss psychiatrist (1958 - )
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  • Berenice Abbott What the human eye observes causally and incuriously, the eye of the camera notes with relentless fidelity.
    Berenice Abbott
    American photographer (1898 - 1991)
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  • Caspar David Friedrich What the newer landscape artists see in a circle of a hundred degrees in Nature they press together unmercifully into an angle of vision of only forty-five degrees. And furthermore, what is in Nature separated by large spaces, is compressed into a cramped space and overfills and over-satiates the eye, creating an unfavorable and disquieting effect on the viewer.
    Caspar David Friedrich
    German landscape painter (1774 - 1840)
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  • Aristotle What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Pearl Bailey What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.
    Pearl Bailey
    American actress (1918 - 1990)
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  • John Gay What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when they've won us.
    John Gay
    British playwright and poet (1685 - 1732)
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  • Barbara Lee What they are doing is taking something that otherwise creates pollution and turning it into something useful.
    Barbara Lee
    American politician (1946 - )
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  • Alexander Graham Bell What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.
    Alexander Graham Bell
    Scottish-born scientist, inventor, engineer, and innovator (1847 - 1922)
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  • Thomas Moore What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine.
    Thomas Moore
    Irish poet (1779 - 1852)
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