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  • Bertolt Brecht General, your tank
    is a powerful vehicle
    it smashes down forests
    and crushes a hundred men.
    but it has one defect:
    it needs a driver.
    Source: Poems, 1913-1956
    Bertolt Brecht
    German - Austrian writer (1898 - 1956)
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  • P. D. James Great literature cannot grow from a neglected or impoverished soil. Only if we actually tend or care will it transpire that every hundred years or so we might get a Middlemarch.
    P. D. James
    English crime writer (1920 - 2014)
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  • Edward Dahlberg Hardly a book of human worth, be it heaven's own secret, is honestly placed before the reader; it is either shunned, given a Periclean funeral oration in a hundred and fifty words, or interred in the potter's field of the newspapers back pages.
    Edward Dahlberg
    American novelist, essayist and autobiographer (1900 - 1977)
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  • Charles de Gaulle How can you govern a country with two hundred and forty six varieties of cheese?
    Charles de Gaulle
    French statesman (1890 - 1970)
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  • Alex Trebek I don't gamble, because winning a hundred dollars doesn't give me great pleasure. But losing a hundred dollars pisses me off.
    Alex Trebek
    Canadian-American television personality and actor (1940 - )
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  • Bryan Callen I guess I am attracted to older women. I'm looking for a 40-something who has had her heart broken two or three hundred times. She's going to be fun!
    Bryan Callen
    American stand-up comedian, actor, writer (1967 - )
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  • William Shakespeare I have full cause of weeping, but this heart shall break into a hundred thousand flaws or ere I'll weep.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Josh Billings I have never known a person to live to be one hundred and be remarkable for anything else.
    Josh Billings
    American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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  • John Ruskin I have seen, and heard, much of Cockney impudence before now; but never expected to hear a coxcomb ask two hundred guineas for flinging a pot of paint in the public's face.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Philip Roth I often have to write a hundred pages or more before there's a paragraph that's alive.
    Philip Roth
    American Novelist (1933 - 2018)
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  • Anna Akhmatova I should be proud to have my memory graced, but only if the monument be placed... here, where I endured three hundred hours in line before the implacable iron bars.
    Anna Akhmatova
    Russian poet (1889 - 1966)
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  • Bruce Dern I took Laura on a trip once where we followed the Immigrant Trail for about six hundred miles. She really learned a lesson. People forget too often how it was back then.
    Bruce Dern
    American actor (1936 - )
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  • Bryan Adams I'd been round the world a hundred times and had started to forget where I'd been. I knew I'd been there: it said it on the tour map. I could remember the name of the city but I couldn't remember what it was like - it was a massive blur.
    Bryan Adams
    Canadian singer, songwriter, record producer and guitarist (1959 - )
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  • Samuel Goldwyn I'll take fifty percent efficiency to get one hundred percent loyalty.
    Samuel Goldwyn
    American producer (1882 - 1974)
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  • Art Linkletter I've learned it's always better to have a small percentage of a big success, than a hundred percent of nothing.
    Art Linkletter
    Canadian-born American radio and television personality (1912 - 2010)
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  • George Bernard Shaw If any religion had a chance of ruling over England, nay Europe within the next hundred years, it could be Islam.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • William Hazlitt If I have not read a book before, it is, for all intents and purposes, new to me whether it was printed yesterday or three hundred years ago.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Vladimir Ilyich Lenin If Socialism can only be realized when the intellectual development of all the people permits it, then we shall not see Socialism for at least five hundred years.
    Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
    Russian revolutionary leader (1870 - 1924)
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  • Adolf Galland If we would have had the 262 at our disposal - even with all the delays - if we could have had in '44, ah, let's say three hundred operational, that day we could have stopped the American daytime bombing offensive, that's for sure.
    Adolf Galland
    German Luftwaffe general (1912 - 1996)
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  • Mother Teresa If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
    Mother Teresa
    Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic nun and missionary (1910 - 1997)
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