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  • Lewis Carroll With a name like yours, you might be any shape, almost.
    Lewis Carroll
    British Writer, Mathematician (1832 - 1898)
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  • John Madden With all his tumid boasts, he's like the sword-fish, who only wears his weapon in his mouth.
    John Madden
    American Football broadcaster and coach (1936 - )
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  • Brendon Urie With an older generation, there's some weight carried with the Beatles. There's almost like an untouchable, god-like force field around them.
    Brendon Urie
    American singer, songwriter, and musician (1987 - )
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  • Billy Parish With Kickstarter, people are patrons of the arts. With Mosaic, people can be clean-energy investors like Warren Buffett.
    Billy Parish
    American environmental entrepreneur, author, and activist (1981 - )
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  • George Eliot With memory set smarting like a reopened wound, a man's past is not simply a dead history, an outworn preparation of the present: it is not a repented error shaken loose from the life: it is a still quivering part of himself, bringing shudders and bitter flavors and the tinglings of a merited shame.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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W. Bruce Cameron With my book 'How to Remodel a Man,' I was on Oprah, Fox News, the Early Show, and Good Morning America. Oprah was the best - an hour long segment. TV is so short; you answer a few questions, and then it's over. It feels like a hit-and-run with a camera.
    W. Bruce Cameron
    American writer and columnist (1960 - )
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  • Bob Graham With terrorist groups like al Qaeda, you can't learn what you want to learn about their capabilities and their future plans by taking a picture of it, and they've learned not to use the telephone.
    Bob Graham
    American politician and author (1936 - )
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  • Ben Folds With the a cappella groups, every voice is like one string on a guitar, one note on the piano, or one cymbal, and you don't have the luxury of falling back on anything.
    Ben Folds
    American singer-songwriter, musician and composer (1966 - )
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  • Carolyn Chute With upper- and middle-class lawns, there's more hidden, whereas with working-class or poor lawns, there's more out to see. It just sits right out there. Very honest. Like the people.
    Carolyn Chute
    American writer and populist
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  • Harry S. Truman Within the first few months I discovered that being president is like riding a tiger. A man has to keep riding or be swallowed.
    Harry S. Truman
    American president (1884 - 1972)
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  • Fitzhugh Dodson Without goals, and plans to reach them, you are like a ship that has set sail with no destination.
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  • Bill Bailey Without the beat in the background, Jazz basically sounds like an armadillo was let loose on the keyboard
    Tinselworm
    Bill Bailey
    English comedian, musician and actor (1965 - )
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  • Marquis de Sade Woman's destiny is to be wanton, like the bitch, the she-wolf; she must belong to all who claim her.
    Marquis de Sade
    French aristocrat, writer, politician and philosopher (1740 - 1814)
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  • W. C. Fields Women are like elephants. I like to look at 'em, but I wouldn't want to own one.
    W. C. Fields
    American Actor (1880 - 1946)
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  • Arthur Conan Doyle Women are naturally secretive, and they like to do their own secreting.
    Arthur Conan Doyle
    British writer and medical doctor (1859 - 1930)
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  • Marcel Achard Women like silent men. They think they're listening.
    Marcel Achard
    French writer (1899 - 1974)
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  • Angelina Grimke Women ought to feel a peculiar sympathy in the colored man's wrong, for, like him, she has been accused of mental inferiority, and denied the privileges of a liberal education.
    Angelina Grimke
    American activists and female advocates of abolition and women's rights (1805 - 1879)
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  • Camille Paglia Women's studies needed a syllabus and so invented a canon overnight. It puffed up clunky, mundane contemporary women authors into Oz-like, skywriting dirigibles. Our best women students are being force-fed an appalling diet of cant, drivel and malarkey.
    Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Vita Sackville-West Women, like men, ought to have their youth so glutted with freedom they hate the very idea of freedom.
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  • Joseph Joubert Words are like eyeglasses they blur everything that they do not make clear.
    Joseph Joubert
    French writer (1754 - 1824)
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