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  • Mary Webb To many women marriage is only this. It is merely a physical change impinging on their ordinary nature, leaving their mentality untouched, their self-possession intact. They are not burnt by even the red fire of physical passion - far less by the white fi
    Mary Webb
    English novelist and poet
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  • St. Augustine of Hippo To many, total abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
    St. Augustine of Hippo
    Roman African Christian theologian and philosopher (354 - 430)
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  • Billy West To me, it all comes down to things being character-driven. It's hard for me to look beyond that. CG and all this cool stuff - so be it. But to me, it pretty much begins and ends with character-driven plots rather than technologically-driven plots.
    Billy West
    American voice actor and musician (1952 - )
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  • Bernard M. Baruch To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.
    Bernard M. Baruch
    American investor, philanthropist, statesman, and political consultant (1870 - 1965)
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  • Bernard M. Baruch To me, old age is always fifteen years older than I am.
    The Observer, 21 August 1955
    Bernard M. Baruch
    American investor, philanthropist, statesman, and political consultant (1870 - 1965)
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  • Bruce Lee To me, the extraordinary aspect of martial arts lies in its simplicity. The easy way is also the right way, and martial arts is nothing at all special; the closer to the true way of martial arts, the less wastage of expression there is.
    Bruce Lee
    Chinese-American Actor, Director, Author, Martial Artist (1940 - 1973)
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  • Bobby Vinton To me, there is nothing better than me going into the studio with a live band and hearing those violins and that echo and that sound. I mean I loved it.
    Bobby Vinton
    American singer and songwriter (1935 - )
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  • Adlai Stevenson To me, there is something superbly symbolic in the fact that an astronaut, sent up as assistant to a series of computers, found that he worked more accurately and more intelligently than they. Inside the capsule, man is still in charge.
    Adlai Stevenson
    American politician and vice president (1835 - 1914)
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  • Bobby Vinton To me, there was nothing greater than to play for an audience and to entertain people and that has stayed with me all these years.
    Bobby Vinton
    American singer and songwriter (1935 - )
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  • Marilyn French To nourish and raise children against odds is in any time, any place, more valuable than to fix bolts in cars or design nuclear weapons.
    Marilyn French
    American radical feminist author (1929 - 2009)
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  • Ruth Hubbard To overturn orthodoxy is no easier in science than in philosophy, religion, economics, or any of the other disciplines through which we try to comprehend the world and the society in which we live.
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  • Charles Horton Cooley To persuade is more trouble than to dominate, and the powerful seldom take this trouble if they can avoid it.
    Charles Horton Cooley
    American sociologist (1864 - 1929)
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  • John Churton Collins To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it.
    John Churton Collins
    British literary critic (1848 - 1908)
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  • Henry James To read between the lines was easier than to follow the text.
    Henry James
    American author (1843 - 1916)
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  • Peter Ustinov To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal.
    Peter Ustinov
    British actor, writer, director (1921 - 2004)
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  • Mark Twain To reject awards is another way to accept them with more noise than normal.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Vladimir Ilyich Lenin To rely upon conviction, devotion, and other excellent spiritual qualities - that is not to be taken seriously in politics.
    Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
    Russian revolutionary leader (1870 - 1924)
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  • Jean Rostand To say of men that they are bad is to say they are worse than we think we are, or worse than the ideal man whose image we have built up on the basis of a certain few.
    Jean Rostand
    French writer (1894 - 1977)
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  • Aldous Huxley To see ourselves as others see us is a most salutary gift. Hardly less important is the capacity to see others as they see themselves.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Buzz Aldrin To send humans back to the moon would not be advancing. It would be more than 50 years after the first moon landing when we got there, and we'd probably be welcomed by the Chinese. But we should return to the moon without astronauts and build, with robots, an international lunar base, so that we know how to build a base on Mars robotically.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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