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  • Ruth Benedict Our faith in the present dies out long before our faith in the future.
    Ruth Benedict
    American anthropologist and folklorist (1887 - 1948)
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  • Ryszard Kapuscinski Our job is like a baker's work - his rolls are tasty as long as they're fresh; after two days they're stale; after a week, they're covered with mould and fit only to be thrown out.
    Ryszard Kapuscinski
    Polish foreign correspondent and journalist (1932 - 2007)
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  • Carlisle Floyd Our most intimate contact with civilizations long since dust has been through the art which has survived them.
    Carlisle Floyd
    American opera composer
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  • Charles Baudelaire Our religion is itself profoundly sad - a religion of universal anguish, and one which, because of its very catholicity, grants full liberty to the individual and asks no better than to be celebrated in each man's own language - so long as he knows anguish and is a painter.
    Charles Baudelaire
    French poet (1821 - 1867)
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  • Aaron Sorkin Our responsibility is to captivate you for however long we've asked for your attention. That said, there is tremendous drama to be gotten from the great, what you would say, heavy issues.
    Aaron Sorkin
    American screenwriter, director, producer, and playwright (1961 - )
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  • Boomer Esiason Over the years, I've enjoyed working for WFAN and MSG - two sports giants in the industry. There couldn't be a better fit due to the long-standing history both entities have had with NY sports.
    Boomer Esiason
    American football player (1961 - )
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  • Angela Merkel Overcoming the Cold War required courage from the people of Central and Eastern Europe and what was then the German Democratic Republic, but it also required the steadfastness of Western partner over many decades when many had long lost hope of integration of the two Germanys and Europe.
    Angela Merkel
    German politician and chancellor (1954 - )
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  • Bill Clinton Part of our essential humanity is paying respect to what God gave us and what will be here a long time after we're gone.
    Bill Clinton
    President of the US (1946 - )
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  • Douglas Macarthur Part of the American dream is to live long and die young. Only those Americans who are willing to die for their country are fit to live.
    Douglas Macarthur
    American general in WO II (1880 - 1964)
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  • Anthony Trollope Passionate love, I take it, rarely lasts long, and is very troublesome while it does last. Mutual esteem is very much more valuable.
    Anthony Trollope
    British writer (1815 - 1882)
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  • B. B. King People all over the world have problems. And as long as people have problems, the blues can never die.
    B. B. King
    American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and record producer (1925 - 2015)
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  • Brendon Burchard People are remarkably bad at remembering long lists of goals. I learned this at a professional level when trying to get my high-performance coaching clients to stay on track; the longer their lists of to-dos and goals, the more overwhelmed and off-track they got. Clarity comes with simplicity.
    Brendon Burchard
    American author (1977 - )
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  • Bertolt Brecht People are too durable, that's their main trouble. They can do too much to themselves, they last too long.
    Bertolt Brecht
    German - Austrian writer (1898 - 1956)
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  • Charles F. Kettering People are very open-minded about new things. As long as they are exactly like the old ones.
    Charles F. Kettering
    American inventor (1876 - 1958)
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  • Brett Ratner People can criticise all day long, I think I've proven myself, I think I deliver. And I agree, box office does not mean a movie's good, but I feel like I'm making good movies and I'm delivering in box office.
    Brett Ratner
    American director and producer (1969 - )
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  • Katharine Whitehorn People get a bad impression of it by continually trying to treat it as if it was a bank clerk, who ought to be on time on Tuesday next, instead of philosophically seeing it as a painter, who may do anything so long as you don't try to predict what.
    Katharine Whitehorn
    British journalist, writer, and columnist (1928 - 2021)
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  • Burning Spear People have been listening to Burning Spear for a long time now, and they know who I am and what I stand for. Yes, I do address many of the same ideas from album to album, adding only a little different flavor or coloring. Yes, the message has remained virtually the same because the issues haven't gone away yet.
    Burning Spear
    Jamaican reggae singer-songwriter, vocalist and musician (1945 - )
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  • Francis Bacon People of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon and seldom drive business home to it's conclusion, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Barry Humphries People only watch my shows for me, and those shows have remained evergreen long after the guests are forgotten.
    Barry Humphries
    Australian comedian, actor, artist, and author (1934 - 2023)
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  • Clark Kenneth People sometimes tell me that they prefer barbarism to civilization. I doubt if they have given it a long enough trial. Like the people of Alexandria, they are bored by civilization; but all the evidence suggests that the boredom of barbarism is infinitely greater.
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