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  • Beth Orton We're all like little ants who scurry around with the materials that are at hand right now. Each generation finds new materials. Its just evolution, isn't it?
    Beth Orton
    English singer-songwriter (1970 - )
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  • Barbara Kingsolver We're animals. We're born like every other mammal and we live our whole lives around disguised animal thoughts.
    Barbara Kingsolver
    American novelist, essayist and poet (1955 - )
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  • Barton Seaver We've become slaves to words like 'local,' 'fresh,' and 'seasonal.' We all want to be Thomas Jefferson's agrarian hero, but sustainable food is a difficult beast.
    Barton Seaver
    American author and chef (1979 - )
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  • Gloria Steinem We've begun to raise daughters more like sons... but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.
    Gloria Steinem
    American feminist writer (1934 - )
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  • Ben Platt We've done as best a job as we can making it clear that I'm earning what I'm earning because of me and not because of who my father is. But at the same time, I'm not ignoring things that would be dumb to ignore, like people that I can know through him and experiences I can have through him and things that I can learn from him.
    Ben Platt
    American actor, singer, and songwriter (1993 - )
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  • John Lennon We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.
    John Lennon
    British musician (1940 - 1980)
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  • Baba Kalyani We've made two products; one is a 155 mm 52-calibre gun with self-propelling and towing capability. This is a field gun - the mainstay of the Indian army like the Bofors guns. Our gun is similar but of a longer range. That was 39 calibre; this is 52. The calibre denotes the length of the barrel and the range.
    Baba Kalyani
    Indian businessman (1949 - )
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  • Theodore Parker Wealth and want equally harden the human heart, like frost and fire both are alien to human flesh.
    Theodore Parker
    American minister (1810 - 1860)
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  • Jean Cocteau Wealth is an inborn attitude of mind, like poverty. The pauper who has made his pile may flaunt his spoils, but cannot wear them plausibly.
    Jean Cocteau
    French writer (1889 - 1963)
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  • Arthur Schopenhauer Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame.
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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  • Martin Amis Weapons are like money; no one knows the meaning of enough.
    Martin Amis
    British novelist (1949 - 2023)
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  • Lord Chesterfield Wear your learning like a watch and do not pull it out merely to show you have it. If you are asked for the time, tell it; but do not proclaim it hourly unasked.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Lord Chesterfield Wear your learning, like your watch in a private pocket: and do not merely pull it out and strike it: merely to show that you have one.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Bud Grant Well 'Monday Night Football,' I think the players kind of like it because they like the attention, and it's a lot of attention. But on the other hand, it's a disruption of the routine we used to have to play on Monday night. If you're a player, you sit around all day waiting for a game. It's different than when you play at noon.
    Bud Grant
    American football coach and player (1927 - )
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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Well has it been said that there is no grief like the grief which does not speak.
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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  • Candace Bushnell Well I actually do have a country house in Connecticut with a population of 3,000. Like, how small is that? I spend a lot of time there - I write up there. So I kind of have the best of both worlds and I love going up there.
    Candace Bushnell
    American author and journalist (1958 - )
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  • Anthony Holden Well I'm a very similar age to Prince Charles. I'm a year older than him. I was at university at the same time as him. I think in the sixties, like all the Royals, he really had very little impact on my life at all and he seemed, if anything a lot older in his attitudes.
    Anthony Holden
    English writer, broadcaster and critic
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  • Alonzo Church Well it was not exactly a dissertation in logic, at least not the kind of logic you would find in Whitehead and Russell's Principia Mathematica for instance. It looked more like mathematics; no formalized language was used.
    Alonzo Church
    American mathematician and logician (1903 - 1995)
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  • Benjamin Bratt Well, for me, the real excitement of doing physical things in films, whether you're talking about a fight scene or a stunt sequence or even a love scene, for that matter, is by necessity it has to be choreographed very much like a dance. That being said, you have to rehearse it over and over again and find a mathematical precision.
    Benjamin Bratt
    American actor, producer, and activist (1963 - )
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  • Bruce Jackson Well, I think everybody's a little jealous of the Vietnam Wall, even people from wars that already have good monuments. You have a monument like the Wall and nobody ever forgets your war, you can bet on that.
    Bruce Jackson
    American folklorist, documentary filmmaker and writer (1936 - )
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