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  • Walter Lippmann Corrupt, stupid grasping functionaries will make at least as big a muddle of socialism as stupid, selfish and acquisitive employers can make of capitalism.
    Walter Lippmann
    American writer, reporter, and political commentator (1889 - 1974)
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  • Anna Freud Create around one at least a small circle where matters are arranged as one wants them to be.
    Anna Freud
    Austrian-British psychoanalyst (1895 - 1982)
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  • Jawaharlal Nehru Crises and deadlocks when they occur have at least this advantage, that they force us to think.
    Jawaharlal Nehru
    Indian nationalist and statesman (1889 - 1964)
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld Decency is the least of all laws, but yet it is the law which is most strictly observed.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Samuel Johnson Do not discourage your children from hoarding, if they have a taste to it; whoever lays up his penny rather than part with it for a cake, at least is not the slave of gross appetite; and shows besides a preference always to be esteemed, of the future to the present moment.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Benjamin Cardozo Due process is a growth too sturdy to succumb to the infection of the least ingredient of error.
    Source: Judicial opinions Roberts v. New York, 295 U.S. 264, 278 (1935).
    Benjamin Cardozo
    American lawyer and jurist (1870 - 1938)
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  • Bob Beauprez During the campaign for re-election, Barack Obama at least made vague references to a willingness to accept $3 trillion of reduced spending in exchange for a $1 trillion dollar tax increase.
    Bob Beauprez
    American politician and member (1948 - )
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  • Aldous Huxley Dying is almost the least spiritual of our acts, more strictly carnal even than the act of love.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Anna Julia Cooper Each is under the most sacred obligation not to squander the material committed to him, not to sap his strength in folly and vice, and to see at the least that he delivers a product worthy the labor and cost which have been expended on him.
    Anna Julia Cooper
    American author, activist and sociologist (1858 - 1964)
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  • Calvin Trillin Even today, well-brought-up English girls are taught by their mothers to boil all veggies for at least a month and a half, just in case one of the dinner guests turns up without his teeth.
    Calvin Trillin
    American journalist, humorist, food writer and poet (1935 - )
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  • Ali Smith Every great narrative is at least two narratives, if not more - the thing that is on the surface and then the things underneath which are invisible.
    Ali Smith
    Scottish author, playwright and journalist (1962 - )
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  • Al Neuharth Everyone should fail in a big way at least once before reaching forty.
    Al Neuharth
    American businessman, author, and columnist
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  • Alexander Herzen Everything in Italy that is particularly elegant and grand borders upon insanity and absurdity or at least is reminiscent of childhood.
    Alexander Herzen
    Russian journalist and political thinker (1812 - 1870)
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  • Heywood Broun Except that right side up is best, there is not much to learn about holding a baby. There are one hundred and fifty-two distinctly different ways -and all are right! At least all will do.
    Heywood Broun
    American Journalist, Novelist (1888 - 1939)
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  • B. F. Skinner Except when physically restrained, a person is least free or dignified when he is under threat of punishment, and unfortunately most people often are.
    B. F. Skinner
    American psychologist, behaviorist and author (1904 - 1990)
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  • David Mitchell Faith, the least exclusive club on Earth, has the craftiest doorman.
    Source: Wolkenatlas (2008) 80
    David Mitchell
    English novelist and screenwriter (1969 - )
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  • Marilyn Monroe Fame will go by and, so long, I've had you, fame. If it goes by, I've always known it was fickle. So at least it's something I experienced, but that's not where I live.
    Marilyn Monroe
    American actress (1926 - 1962)
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  • Queen Victoria For a man to strike any women is most brutal, and I, as well as everyone else, think this far worse than any attempt to shoot, which, wicked as it is, is at least more comprehensible and more courageous.
    Queen Victoria
    Queen of Great Britain (1819 - 1901)
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  • Richard Buckminster Fuller For at least 2,000,000 years men have been reproducing and multiplying on a little automated spaceship called earth.
    Source: The Prospect for Humanity, Saturday Review, 29 August 1964
    Richard Buckminster Fuller
    American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, and inventor (1895 - 1983)
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  • John Maynard Keynes For at least another hundred years we must pretend to ourselves and to every one that fair is foul and foul is fair; for foul is useful and fair is not. Avarice and usury and precaution must be our gods for a little longer still.
    John Maynard Keynes
    British economist (1883 - 1946)
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