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  • Arthur Henderson In short, it may be said that on paper the obligations to settle international disputes peacefully are now so comprehensive and far-reaching that it is almost impossible for a state to resort to war without violating one or more solemn treaty obligations.
    Arthur Henderson
    British Labour politician
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  • Ben van Berkel In the early work of Frank Lloyd Wright - and you can also see it with Mies - they make new ground by raising the ground. Frank Lloyd Wright did it so beautifully with the Robie House. The roof becomes almost a new ground.
    Ben van Berkel
    Dutch architect
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld In the human heart new passions are forever being born; the overthrow of one almost always means the rise of another.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Carl Sagan In the long run, the aggressive civilizations destroy themselves, almost always. It's their nature. They can't help it.
    Contact (1985) Ch. 20 (p. 359)
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Bill Gates Instead of buying airplanes and playing around like some of our competitors, we've rolled almost everything back into the company.
    Comment to reporters during the IBM PC launch
    Bill Gates
    American business magnate, investor, author and philanthropist (1955 - )
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  • Benjamin Graham Instead of passing blithely over into that Promised Land, flowing almost literally with milk and honey, it may be our destiny to wander a full 40 years or more in the wilderness of doubt and divided sentiments.
    Storage and Stability Part I, Ch. I, The Changing Role of Surplus Stocks
    Benjamin Graham
    British-born American economist, professor and investor (1894 - 1976)
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  • Eric Hoffer It almost seems that nobody can hate America as much as native Americans. America needs new immigrants to love and cherish it.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • John Keats It appears to me that almost any man may like the spider spin from his own inwards his own airy citadel.
    John Keats
    English poet (1795 - 1821)
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  • John Henry Newman It is almost a definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain.
    John Henry Newman
    English theologian (1801 - 1890)
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  • Alexandre Dumas père It is almost as difficult to keep a first class person in a fourth class job, as it is to keep a fourth class person in a first class job.
    Alexandre Dumas père
    French writer (1802 - 1870)
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  • Tennessee Williams It is almost as if you were frantically constructing another world while the world that you live in dissolves beneath your feet, and that your survival depends on completing this construction at least one second before the old habitation collapses.
    Tennessee Williams
    American playwright (1911 - 1983)
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  • Antoine Lavoisier It is almost possible to predict one or two days in advance, within a rather broad range of probability, what the weather is going to be; it is even thought that it will not be impossible to publish daily forecasts, which would be very useful to soci.
    Antoine Lavoisier
    French nobleman and chemist (1743 - 1794)
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  • Anatole France It is almost systematically to constitute a natural moral law. Nature has no principles. She furnishes us with no reason to believe that human life is to be respected. Nature, in her indifference, makes no difference between right and wrong.
    Anatole France
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1921) (1844 - 1924)
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  • John Henry Newman It is almost the definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain.
    John Henry Newman
    English theologian (1801 - 1890)
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  • W. H. Auden It is already possible to imagine a society in which the majority of the population, that is to say, its laborers, will have almost as much leisure as in earlier times was enjoyed by the aristocracy. When one recalls how aristocracies in the past actually behaved, the prospect is not cheerful.
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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  • Carl Clinton Van Doren IT is mere coincidence that Cooper was born in the year which produced The Power of Sympathy and that when he died Uncle Tom's Cabin was passing through its serial stage, and yet the limits of his life mark almost exactly the first great period of American fiction.
    Carl Clinton Van Doren
    American critic and biographer (1885 - 1980)
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  • Carl I. Hagen It is nothing to celebrate that one is gay. Us heterosexuals have never celebrated our orientation. This cheering of gays is disruptive to our society. You can almost get the impression that it is better to be homosexual than heterosexual. I think this is very sad.
    About Israel Comment in connection with the annual Europride, i
    Carl I. Hagen
    Norwegian politician (1944 - )
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  • Alexandre Dumas père It is rare that one can see in a little boy the promise of a man, but one can almost always see in a little girl the threat of a woman.
    Alexandre Dumas père
    French writer (1802 - 1870)
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  • Lord George Byron It is true from early habit, one must make love mechanically as one swims; I was once very fond of both, but now as I never swim unless I tumble into the water, I don't make love till almost obliged.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Bela Lugosi It took me years to live down Dracula and convince the film producers that I would play almost any other type of role.
    Bela Lugosi
    Hungarian-American actor (1882 - 1956)
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