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  • Richard Bandler Brains aren't designed to get result; they go in directions. If you know how the brain works you can set your own directions. If you don't, then someone else will.
    Richard Bandler
    American author and trainer (1950 - )
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  • Adam Schiff But even race-neutral policies and recruitment efforts designed to achieve greater diversity are, in the end, not race neutral.
    Adam Schiff
    American lawyer and politician (1960 - )
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  • Abu Bakar Bashir But the West is trying to weaken Islam from outside and inside. They attack our people and invade our countries from outside, and they weaken us from within with ideas like secularism, liberalism and democracy. This is all designed to contaminate our pure Islam.
    Abu Bakar Bashir
    Indonesian Muslim cleric (1938 - )
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  • Alexander Pope But when mischief mortals bend their will,
    How soon they find fit instruments of ill!
    Rape of the Lock (1712) Canto III, 125
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Susan Sontag Cancer patients are lied to, not just because the disease is (or is thought to be) a death sentence, but because it is felt to be obscene - in the original meaning of that word: ill-omened, abominable, repugnant to the senses.
    Susan Sontag
    American writer, filmmaker, teacher, and political activist (1933 - 2004)
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  • David Garrick Cards were at first for benefits designed, sent to amuse, not to enslave the mind.
    David Garrick
    English actor and playwright (1717 - 1779)
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  • H.G. Wells Cynicism is humor in ill health.
    H.G. Wells
    British-born American author (1866 - 1946)
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  • Barbara Mikulski Do we want an Attorney General who will play politics with the law, play politics with the court and just play politics with international conventions designed to protect our troops? I do not want to play that kind of politics. I am going to vote against Alberto Gonzales.
    Barbara Mikulski
    American politician (1936 - )
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  • Andrea Dworkin Erotica is simply high-class pornography; better produced, better conceived, better executed, better packaged, designed for a better class of consumer.
    Andrea Dworkin
    American radical feminist and writer (1946 - 2005)
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  • Robert Collier Every contrivance of man, every tool, every instrument, every utensil, every article designed for use, of each and every kind, evolved from a very simple beginnings.
    Robert Collier
    American author
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  • Boethius For in every ill-turn of fortune the most unhappy sort of unfortunate man is the one who has been happy.
    De Consolatione Philosophia Book 2, prose 4
    Boethius
    Roman senator, consul, magister officiorum, and philosopher (480 - 524)
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  • Ben Nelson For many Americans, including many who are employed, going to the doctor when they fall ill or become injured may not be an option because of the absence of health insurance.
    Ben Nelson
    American politician, businessman and lawyer (1941 - )
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  • Thornton Wilder For what human ill does dawn not seem to be alternative?
    Thornton Wilder
    American writer and playwright (1897 - 1975)
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  • Lord Chesterfield Frequent and loud laughter is the characteristic of folly and ill manners.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • C. S. Lewis God made us: invented us as a man invents an engine. A car is made to run on petrol, and it would not run properly on anything else. Now God designed the human machine to run on Himself.
    Mere Christianity (1952)
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Winston Churchill Golf is a game whose aim is to hit a very small ball into an even smaller hole, with weapons singularly ill-designed for the purpose.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Jawaharlal Nehru Great causes and little men go ill together.
    Jawaharlal Nehru
    Indian nationalist and statesman (1889 - 1964)
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  • Napoleon Great people are meteors designed to burn so that the earth may be lighted.
    Napoleon
    French Emperor (1769 - 1821)
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  • Barbara Ehrenreich Heads of state are notoriously ill prepared for their mature careers; think of Adolf Hitler (landscape painter), Ho Chi Minh (seaman), and our own Ronald Reagan.
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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  • Democritus Hope of ill gain is the beginning of loss.
    Democritus
    Greek scientist, astronomist and philosopher (460 - 380)
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