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  • Beau Willimon The way I see politics is, I don't think it's cynical to accept the fact politicians are human beings, that they're flawed, and they represent the best and the worst of us.
    Beau Willimon
    American playwright and screenwriter (1977 - )
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  • Aberjhani The way out of the maze of whiteness and blackness that led inevitably, repeatedly, to violent conflict was through the simple recognition of and respect for blacks and whites as not two races but one: the human race.
    The Wisdom of W.E.B. Du Bois (2003)
    Aberjhani
    American historian, columnist and novelist (1957 - )
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  • Casey Affleck The way people appear in the gossip papers, as they're depicted as celebrities, it's not often much like who they are. The more people I meet, the more that's true. Sometimes, they're worse.
    Casey Affleck
    American actor and director (1975 - )
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  • Bette Davis The weak are the most treacherous of us all. They come to the strong and drain them. They are bottomless. They are insatiable. They are always parched and always bitter. They are everyone's concern and like vampires they suck our life's blood.
    Bette Davis
    American Actress, Producer (1908 - 1989)
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  • Barry Commoner The weapons were conceived and created by a small band of physicists and chemists; they remain a cataclysmic threat to the whole of human society and the natural environment.
    Barry Commoner
    American cellular biologist, college professor, and politician (1917 - 2012)
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  • Jerome K. Jerome The weather is like the government, always in the wrong.
    Jerome K. Jerome
    British Humorous Writer, Novelist, Playwright (1859 - 1927)
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  • Joseph Conrad The Westerly Wind asserting his sway from the south-west quarter is often like a monarch gone mad, driving forth with wild imprecations the most faithful of his courtiers to shipwreck, disaster, and death.
    Joseph Conrad
    In Poland born English writer (1857 - 1924)
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  • Malcolm X The white man is not inherently evil, but America's racist society influences him to act evilly. The society has produced and nourishes a psychology which brings out the lowest, most base part of human beings.
    Operation Shylock: A Confession (1993)
    Malcolm X
    American activist (1925 - 1965)
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  • Charles III The whole imposing edifice of modern medicine is like the celebrated tower of Pisa - slightly off balance.
    Charles III
    King of the United Kingdom since 2022 (1948 - )
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  • Alexis de Tocqueville The whole life of an American is passed like a game of chance, a revolutionary crisis, or a battle.
    Alexis de Tocqueville
    French aristocrat, political philosopher and sociologist (1805 - 1859)
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  • Blake Bailey The whole psychoanalytical establishment in America at midcentury was geared to make people with homosexual proclivities feel like monsters, moral degenerates.
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  • Harold Macmillan The wind of change is blowing through the continent. Whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact.
    Harold Macmillan
    British Conservative politician, prime minister (1894 - 1986)
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  • Barbara Mikulski The women of the Senate are like the U.S. Olympic team: we come in different sizes, but we sure are united in our determination to do the best for our country!
    Barbara Mikulski
    American politician (1936 - )
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  • Henry David Thoreau The words which express our faith and piety are not definite; yet they are significant and fragrant like frankincense to superior natures.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Hortense Calisher The words! I collected them in all shapes and sizes and hung them like bangles in my mind.
    Hortense Calisher
    American writer (1911 - 2009)
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  • Edward Blishen The work was like peeling an onion. The outer skin came off with difficulty... but in no time you'd be down to its innards, tears streaming from your eyes as more and more beautiful reductions became possible.
    Edward Blishen
    English author and broadcaster (1920 - 1996)
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  • Basil O'Connor The world cannot continue to wage war like physical giants and to seek peace like intellectual pygmies.
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  • Richard Rorty The world does not speak. Only we do. The world can, once we have programmed ourselves with a language, cause us to hold beliefs. But it cannot propose a language for us to speak. Only other human beings can do that.
    Richard Rorty
    American philosopher (1931 - 2007)
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  • Samuel Johnson The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Bill Hicks The world is like a ride in an amusement park. And when you choose to go on it you think it's real because that's how powerful our minds are. And the ride goes up and down and round and round. It has thrills and chills and it's very brightly coloured and it's very loud and it's fun, for a while. Some people have been on the ride for a long time and they begin to question: Is this real, or is this just a ride? And other people have remembered, and they come back to us, they sa
    Bill Hicks
    American stand-up comedian, social critic, satirist and musician (1961 - 1994)
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