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  • Bob McDonnell My wife and daughters work. My campaign manager in 2005 was a working mother. I appointed 5 women to my senior staff as Attorney General.
    Bob McDonnell
    American politician and lawyer (1954 - )
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  • Bernard Marcus Nanotechnology in medicine is going to have a major impact on the survival of the human race.
    Bernard Marcus
    American billionaire businessman (1929 - )
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  • George Bernard Shaw Napoleon: What shall we do with this soldier, Giuseppe? Everything he says is wrong. Giuseppe: Make him a general, Excellency, and then everything he says will be right.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Marquis de Sade Nature, who for the perfect maintenance of the laws of her general equilibrium, has sometimes need of vices and sometimes of virtues, inspires now this impulse, now that one, in accordance with what she requires.
    Marquis de Sade
    French aristocrat, writer, politician and philosopher (1740 - 1814)
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  • Barbara Ehrenreich No culture on earth outside of mid-century suburban America has ever deployed one woman per child without simultaneously assigning her such major productive activities as weaving, farming, gathering, temple maintenance, and tent-building. The reason is that full-time, one-on-one child-raising is not good for women or children.
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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  • Barbara W. Tuchman Nothing so comforts the military mind as the maxim of a great but dead general.
    Barbara W. Tuchman
    American historian (1912 - 1989)
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  • Bill Dedman Nuclear power plants built in the areas usually thought of as earthquake zones, such as the California coastline, have a surprisingly low risk of damage from those earthquakes. Why? They built anticipating a major quake.
    Bill Dedman
    American journalist (1960 - )
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  • Machiavelli Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain.
    Machiavelli
    Florentine state philosopher (1469 - 1527)
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  • George Eliot Of what use, however, is a general certainty that an insect will not walk with his head hindmost, when what you need to know is the play of inward stimulus that sends him hither and thither in a network of possible paths?
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Frank Herbert One of the best things to come out of the home computer revolution could be the general and widespread understanding of how severely limited logic really is.
    Frank Herbert
    American science fiction writer (1920 - 1986)
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  • Ban Ki-moon One of the main lessons I have learned during my five years as Secretary-General is that broad partnerships are the key to solving broad challenges. When governments, the United Nations, businesses, philanthropies and civil society work hand-in-hand, we can achieve great things.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Bill Condon One of the people that became a major source was Clarence Tripp who worked with Kinsey.
    Bill Condon
    American director and screenwriter (1955 - )
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  • Novalis Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.
    Novalis
    German poet and writer (ps. van Georg van Hardenberg) (1772 - 1801)
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  • Camille Paglia Our major universities are now stuck with an army of pedestrian, toadying careerists, Fifties types who wave around Sixties banners to conceal their record of ruthless, beaver-like tunneling to the top.
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Socrates Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us.
    Socrates
    Greek philosopher (469 - 399)
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  • Richard Buckminster Fuller Out of my general world-pattern-trend studies there now comes strong evidence that nothing is going to be quite so surprising and abrupt in the future history of man as the forward evolution in the educational process.
    Richard Buckminster Fuller
    American poet, philosopher and inventor (1895 - 1983)
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  • Samuel Butler People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and at seeing it practiced.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Bernard Williams People who express themselves in paradoxes are in a strong position; and the more outrageous the paradox, in general the stronger the position.
    Bernard Williams
    English philosopher (1929 - 2003)
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  • Jerry Gillies People who make money often make mistakes, and even have major setbacks, but they believe they will eventually prosper, and they see every setback as a lesson to be applied in their move towards success.
    Jerry Gillies
    American writer
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  • Lord Chesterfield Pleasure is a necessary reciprocal. No one feels, who does not at the same time give it. To be pleased, one must please. What pleases you in others, will in general please them in you.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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