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  • Alan Cohen Everything will line up perfectly when knowing and living the truth becomes more important than looking good.
    Alan Cohen
    American businessman (1954 - )
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne Example is a bright looking-glass, universal and for all shapes to look into.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Dorothy L. Sayers Except ye become as little children, except you can wake on your fiftieth birthday with the same forward-looking excitement and interest in life that you enjoyed when you were five, ''ye cannot enter the kingdom of God.'' One must not only die daily, but every day we must be born again.
    Dorothy L. Sayers
    British writer (1893 - 1957)
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  • Gloria Steinem Far too many people are looking for the right person, instead of trying to be the right person.
    Gloria Steinem
    American feminist writer (1934 - )
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  • Bethany McLean Fixing Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in isolation, without looking at the big picture, would be short-sighted.
    Bethany McLean
    American journalist (1970 - )
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  • Bahman Ghobadi For me, it's better to live without looking over your shoulder, worrying about who is controlling your phone, maybe poisoning your food.
    Bahman Ghobadi
    Iranian-Kurdish film director, producer and writer (1969 - )
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  • Fanny Burney For my part, I confess I seldom listen to the players: one has so much to do, in looking about and finding out one's acquaintance, that, really, one has no time to mind the stage. One merely comes to meet one's friends, and show that one's alive.
    Fanny Burney
    English author (1752 - 1840)
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  • Publilius Syrus Fortune is like glass - the brighter the glitter, the more easily broken.
    Publilius Syrus
    Syrian poet (85 - 43)
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  • Brin-Jonathan Butler Galileo wasn't put in prison because he was wrong about anything he discovered looking through his telescope; rather, he was incarcerated simply because he saw what others didn't wish to see.
    Brin-Jonathan Butler
    American journalist and filmmaker
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  • Boy George Gay unions, what is that about? I haven't been invited to any ceremonies, and I wouldn't go anyway. The idea that gay people have to mimic what obviously doesn't work for straight people any more... I think is a bit tragic. I am looking forward to gay divorces.
    The London Evening Standard, 20 February 2006:
    Boy George
    English singer, songwriter, DJ, fashion designer and actor (1961 - )
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  • Bernadette Peters George M. is where I met my dear friend Joel Grey. We connected at rehearsal one day during a five-minute break. We were both looking out the same window and we knew in five minutes that we'd made a connection.
    Bernadette Peters
    American actress, singer, and author (1948 - )
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  • William Shakespeare Get thee glass eyes, and like a scurvy politician, seem to see the things thou dost not.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Caitlin Flanagan Girls are really looking to places that have limits and boundaries: where adults are the adults and there are rules, and where they feel safe.
    Caitlin Flanagan
    American writer
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  • Benjamin Franklin Glass, china, and reputation are easily cracked, and never mended well.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • John Webster Glories, like glow-worms, afar off shine bright, but looking to near, have neither heat not light.
    John Webster
    English dramatist (1580 - 1634)
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  • Casey Stengel Going to bed with a woman never hurt a ballplayer. It's staying up all night looking for them that does you in.
    Barbara Rowes, The Book of Quotes (1979)
    Casey Stengel
    American basketbal player and manager (1890 - 1975)
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  • Hitopadesa Greatness does not approach him who is forever looking down.
    Hitopadesa
    Indian text in Sanskrit
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  • Caitlin Rose Growing up in Nashville, especially in a music business family, means growing up with knowledge that seems like common sense until later in life when you realize people spend thousands of dollars a semester trying to learn or pretending to learn while looking for some intern job on music row.
    Caitlin Rose
    American country singer (1987 - )
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  • Plato He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.
    Plato
    Greek philosopher (427 - 347)
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  • Ben Jonson He hath consumed a whole night in lying looking to his great toe, about which he hath seen Tartars and Turks, Romans and Carthaginians, fight in his imagination.
    Conversations with William Drummond of Hawthornden
    Ben Jonson
    British Dramatist, Poet (1572 - 1637)
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