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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne But sure there is need of other remedies than dreaming, a weak contention of art against nature.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Elizabeth Barrett Browning But the child's sob curses deeper in the silence than the strong man in his wrath!
    Elizabeth Barrett Browning
    English poet (1806 - 1861)
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  • Albert Einstein But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Aaron Eckhart But then, even with sex, I'm more in the school of less is more in movies.
    Aaron Eckhart
    American actor (1968 - )
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  • Rebecca West But there are other things than dissipation that thicken the features. Tears, for example.
    Rebecca West
    British author (1892 - 1983)
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  • Brent Scowcroft But there is scant evidence to tie Saddam to terrorist organizations, and even less to the Sept. 11 attacks.
    Brent Scowcroft
    American US Air Force officer (1925 - 2020)
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  • Bo Bice But whatever the Lord throws at me right now, I think I've been given more blessings than I ever deserved. If he wants to top it off with anything - boy, girl - I would love either of them.
    Bo Bice
    American singer and musician (1975 - )
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  • Ben Affleck But when I felt like I had something to prove? Then I got up early every morning and worked all day long. I didn't know if I had any more talent than anyone else directing, but I knew I could work hard at it, and so I did.
    Ben Affleck
    American actor and filmmaker. (1972 - )
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  • Bob Edwards But when you see personal artifacts relating to - by genealogy at least - a living human being, it was just more impressive to me than just about anything I've ever read about slavery before.
    Bob Edwards
    American broadcast journalist
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  • Bill Wyman But why is it that in music, anything more than 5 years old - apart from a few hits - is never played on radio to the young public?
    Bill Wyman
    English musician, record producer and songwriter (1936 - )
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  • Andrew Coyle Bradley But, in addition, there is, all through the tragedy, a constant alternation of rises and falls in this tension or in the emotional pitch of the work, a regular sequence of more exciting and less exciting sections.
    Andrew Coyle Bradley
    American lawyer (1844 - 1902)
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  • Arianna Huffington But, in fact, there is nothing that can bring you closer to fearlessness about everything else in the world than being a parent - because everyday fears - like not being approved of - pale by comparison to the fears you have about your children.
    Arianna Huffington
    Greek-American author, syndicated columnist, and businesswoman (1950 - )
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  • Barbara Corcoran Buy with your heart, not your head. You can look at all the aspects that make a purchase practical, but that kind of thinking makes it an investment rather than a home.
    Barbara Corcoran
    American businesswoman, investor, speaker and consultant (1949 - )
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  • Marcus Aurelius By a tranquil mind I mean nothing else than a mind well ordered.
    Marcus Aurelius
    Roman emperor (121 - 180)
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  • Robert Cialdini By concentrating our attention on the effect rather than the causes, we can avoid the laborious, nearly impossible task of trying to detect and deflect the many psychological influences on liking.
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  • Bob Menendez By failing to keep their end of the bargain, the Bush administration would allow New Jersey projects to deteriorate and make New Jersey highways and bridges less safe.
    Bob Menendez
    American politician (1954 - )
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  • Ben Shapiro By giving professors jobs for life, universities create a feeling of unanswerable power among too many. Tenured professors who are uninterested in serving the student body are less likely to respond favorably to criticism, and are more likely to feel the freedom to intimidate or harass those with opposing viewpoints.
    Ben Shapiro
    American conservative political commentator and attorney (1984 - )
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  • George Orwell By revolution we become more ourselves, not less.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Camille Paglia Campus speech codes, that folly of the navel-gazing left, have increased the appeal of the right. Ideas must confront ideas. When hurt feelings and bruised egos are more important than the unfettered life of the mind, the universities have committed suicide.
    Vamps and Tramps (1994)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Blaise Pascal Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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