Quotes with hit-and-run

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  • Luis Bunuel If the devil were to offer me a resurgence of what is commonly called virility, I'd decline. ''Just keep my liver and lungs in good working order,'' I'd reply, ''so I can go on drinking and smoking!''
    Luis Bunuel
    Spanish director (1900 - 1983)
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  • Bill Nye If the Earth gets hit by an asteroid, it's game over. It's control-alt-delete for civilization.
    Bill Nye
    American science communicator, television presenter (1955 - )
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  • Alexander Smith If the egotist is weak, his egotism is worthless. If the egotist is strong, acute, full of distinctive character, his egotism is precious, and remains a possession of the race.
    Alexander Smith
    Scottish Poet, Author (1829 - 1867)
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  • Henry David Thoreau If the fairest features of the landscape are to be named after men, let them be the noblest and worthiest men alone.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Kahlil Gibran If the grandfather of the grandfather of Jesus had known what was hidden within him, he would have stood humble and awe-struck before his soul.
    Kahlil Gibran
    Libian painter and writer (1883 - 1931)
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  • Bert Lance If the house is on fire, and the fireman shows up, you don't question his color or credentials. You don't send him back to the firehouse and say, 'Send somebody else.'
    Bert Lance
    American businessman (1931 - 2013)
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  • Carlton Fisk If the human body recognized agony and frustration, people would never run marathons, have babies, or play baseball.
    Carlton Fisk
    American baseball player (1947 - )
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  • Winston Churchill If the human race wishes to have a prolonged and indefinite period of material prosperity, they have only got to behave in a peaceful and helpful way toward one another
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Carl von Clausewitz If the leader is filled with high ambition and if he pursues his aims with audacity and strength of will, he will reach them in spite of all obstacles.
    Carl von Clausewitz
    Prussian general and military theorist (1780 - 1831)
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  • Abdelaziz Bouteflika If the lives of men can be measured in terms of years, ideologies in decades, and nations in centuries, then the unit measuring civilizations, born of the interaction among peoples, would be the millennium.
    Abdelaziz Bouteflika
    Algerian politician (1937 - )
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe If the mass of people hesitate to act, strike with swiftly and with boldness, the brave heart that understands and seizes opportunity can everything.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Benjamin N. Cardozo If the nature of a thing is such that it is reasonably certain to place life and limb in peril when negligently made, it is then a thing of danger. Its nature gives warning of the consequences to be expected. If to the element of danger there is added knowledge that the thing will be used by persons other than the purchaser, and used without new tests, then, irrespective of contract, the manufacturer of this thing of danger is under a duty to make it carefully.
    Source: MacPherson v. Buick Motor Co.
    Benjamin N. Cardozo
    American lawyer and jurist (1870 - 1938)
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  • Bob Knight If the NBA were on channel 5 and a bunch of frogs making love was on channel 4, I'd watch the frogs even if they were coming in fuzzy.
    Bob Knight
    American basketball coach (1940 - )
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  • Carter G. Woodson If the Negroes are to remain forever removed from the producing atmosphere, and the present discrimination continues, there will be nothing left for them to do.
    Carter G. Woodson
    American historian, author and journalist (1875 - 1950)
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  • Bill Cosby If the new American father feels bewildered and even defeated, let him take comfort from the fact that whatever he does in any fathering situation has a fifty percent chance of being right.
    Bill Cosby
    American actor, comedian, producer (1937 - )
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  • Russell Hoban If the past cannot teach the present and the father cannot teach the son, then history need not have bothered to go on, and the world has wasted a great deal of time.
    Russell Hoban
    American writer (1925 - 2011)
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  • Edmund Burke If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude that to be good from whence good is derived.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • Barack Obama If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists - to protect them and to promote their common welfare - all else is lost.
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Bob Filner If the President really wanted to know exactly how Rove and Libby were involved, he could walk down to their offices and demand that they answer him honestly.
    Bob Filner
    American politician (1942 - )
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  • Andrew Johnson If the rabble were lopped off at one end and the aristocrats at the other, all would be well with the country.
    Andrew Johnson
    American politician and 17th US president (1808 - 1875)
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