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  • Carl Sagan For a long time the human instinct to understand was thwarted by facile religious explanations.
    Cosmos (1980)
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Bill Bradley For a long time, I operated under the Chinese proverb that there are four kinds of leaders: those who you laugh at, those who you hate, those who you love and those who you don't even know that they're leaders.
    Bill Bradley
    American former professional basketball player and politician (1943 - )
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  • Bob Seger For a long time, I thought when you do a box set, you're giving up; you're saying, 'OK, I don't have anything left.' But now I've listened to some of the old stuff I haven't heard in 20 to 40 years with fresh ears. It's like, 'Oh yeah, I can see where people might want to to hear some of this stuff that didn't make it onto the records.'
    Bob Seger
    American singer, songwriter and musician (1945 - )
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  • Butch Trucks For a long time, our only mode of travel was an Econoline van. Eleven of us, with nine sleeping in the back on two mattresses.
    Butch Trucks
    American musician (1947 - 2017)
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  • Bill Keller For all of the woes besetting our business, I believe with all my heart that newspapers - whether they are distributed to your doorstep, your laptop, your iPhone or a chip implanted in your cerebral cortex - will be around for a long time.
    Bill Keller
    American journalist (1949 - )
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  • Bob Barr For far too long the American public and business sector have kept their silence as civil liberties have been whittled away by statutory and regulatory measures.
    Bob Barr
    American attorney and politician (1948 - )
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  • Benjamin Franklin For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right but found to be otherwise.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Lord George Byron For in itself a thought, a slumbering thought, is capable of years, and curdles a long life into one hour.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Betsy Brandt For me, I need to be able to show up on set and fart around and goof around. If I can have that, when I'm not acting, then when I'm acting I can go however deep and dark and bad I need to. I developed that more with 'Breaking Bad' because I've never worked on anything as dark for as long.
    Betsy Brandt
    American actress (1973 - )
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  • Brendan Gleeson For me, it's just about keeping the standards up. We're a small country, so we have to punch above our weight. I'm not a great man for doing something just because it's Irish, and you never know what's going to work. But as long as we keep the standards up, people will continue to invest in films. It's as simple as that.
    Brendan Gleeson
    Irish actor and film director (1955 - )
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  • Baltasar Kormakur For me, the source material can come from anywhere. It can be a poem, it can be a dream, it can be a movie, as long as the end part of it is interesting - that's what it's about for me.
    Baltasar Kormakur
    Icelandic actor, theater and film director (1966 - )
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  • Eileen Stukane For one mother, joy is the quiet pleasure found in gently rubbing shampoo into her young child's hair. For another woman it's taking a long walk alone, while for yet another it's reviling in a much - anticipated vacation.
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  • Haniel Long For support, I fall back on my heart. Has a man any fault a woman cannot weave with and try to change into something better, if the god her man prays to is a mother holding a baby?
    Haniel Long
    American writer, poet, journalist (1888 - 1956)
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  • Sarah Bernhardt For the theatre one needs long arms; it is better to have them too long than too short. An artiste with short arms can never, never make a fine gesture.
    Sarah Bernhardt
    French stage actress (0 - 1923)
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  • Bertolt Brecht For the villainy of the world is great, and a man has to run his legs off to keep them from being stolen out fom underneath him.
    Bertolt Brecht
    German - Austrian writer (1898 - 1956)
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  • Barry Eichengreen For those unfortunate enough to experience it, long-term unemployment - now, as in the 1930s - is a tragedy. And, for society as a whole, there is the danger that the productive capacity of a significant portion of the labour force will be impaired.
    Barry Eichengreen
    American economist
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  • Bob Beauprez For too long, our country's version of an energy policy has consisted of Americans waking up every day and wondering how much it will cost to drive to work, how much it will cost to keep their business running, how much it will cost to heat or cool their homes.
    Bob Beauprez
    American politician and member (1948 - )
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  • Bob Riley For too long, we have focused on our differences - in our politics and backgrounds, in our race and beliefs - rather than cherishing the unity and pride that binds us together.
    Bob Riley
    American politician (1944 - )
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  • Alexander Pope For virtue's self may too much zeal be had; the worst of madmen is a saint run mad.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Kahlil Gibran Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.
    Kahlil Gibran
    Libian painter and writer (1883 - 1931)
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