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  • Albert Bushnell Hart One of the strongest and most persistent elements in national development has been that inheritance of political traditions and usages which the new settlers brought with them.
    Albert Bushnell Hart
    American historian, writer, and editor (1854 - 1943)
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  • Bernard Crick One of the symptoms of a declining social order is that its members have to give most of their time to politics, rather than to the real tasks of economic production, in an attempt to patch up the cracks already appearing from the 'inner contradictions' of such a system.
    In Defence Of Politics Ch. 5, A Defence Of Politics Against Technology, p
    Bernard Crick
    British political theorist (1929 - 2008)
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  • Bill Williams One of the things that I have learned since trying to bring in an interesting story in under 28 pages is that we already agree on great chunks of typical superhero stories.
    Bill Williams
    American actor
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  • Bebe Neuwirth One of the things that's great about doing a show over and over again... is that you have to find ways to make it spontaneous, as though everything is happening for the first time... to continue to mine the material and find new things.
    Bebe Neuwirth
    American actress, singer and dancer (1958 - )
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  • Carlton Cuse One of the things that's, I think, hard in television is that there's a certain sameness to a lot of television because you're working in a very constricted box, and the box is defined by the amount of money you have to spend and the amount of time you have to get ready.
    Carlton Cuse
    American screenwriter, producer, and director (1959 - )
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  • C. Everett Koop One of the things we want to do is find ways, first, to impress these parents how important it is to have children in a situation where they can respond to them and, second, to bring intergenerational relationships into play.
    C. Everett Koop
    American doctor and pediatric surgeon (1916 - 2013)
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  • Stokely Carmichael One of the tragedies of the struggle against racism is that up to now there has been no national organization which could speak to the growing militancy of young black people in the urban ghetto.
    What we want (1966)
    Stokely Carmichael
    American activist (1941 - 1998)
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  • Jonathan Swift One of the very best rules of conversation is to never, say anything which any of the company wish had been left unsaid.
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • Edward Dahlberg One of the weaknesses in the cooperative is that it has never been sufficiently leavened by the imagination. This is a quick-silver faculty, and likely to be a cause of worry to any collective settlement.
    Edward Dahlberg
    American novelist, essayist and autobiographer (1900 - 1977)
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  • Margaret Thatcher One only gets to the top rung of the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you - suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, ''Well, I'll have a go, too.''
    Margaret Thatcher
    British Prime Minister (1979-1990) (1925 - 2013)
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  • Ben Horowitz One person is never as stupid as a group of people. That's why they have lynch mobs, not lynch individuals.
    Ben Horowitz
    American businessman, investor, blogger, and author (1966 - )
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  • John Stuart Mill One person with a belief is equal to ninety-nine who have only interests.
    John Stuart Mill
    English economist (1806 - 1873)
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  • Francis H. Bradley One said of suicide, ''As long as one has brains one should not blow them out.'' And another answered, ''But when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot.''
    Francis H. Bradley
    British Philosopher (1846 - 1924)
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  • Eugene J. Mccarthy One thing about a pig, he thinks he's warm if his nose is warm. I saw a bunch of pigs one time that had frozen together in a rosette, each one's nose tucked under the rump of the one in front. We have a lot of pigs in politics.
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  • Marilyn French One thing that makes art different from life is that in art things have a shape... it allows us to fix our emotions on events at the moment they occur, it permits a union of heart and mind and tongue and tear.
    Marilyn French
    American radical feminist author (1929 - 2009)
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  • Bobby Flay One thing you don't want to do as a host is be running around all evening. Do as much as you can ahead of time, so all you have to do is grill the main ingredients.
    Bobby Flay
    American celebrity chef and restaurateur (1964 - )
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  • Bob Schieffer One thing young people have to always keep in mind when deciding what they want to do with their lives is, is it fun? Is it something that I'm interested in? Is it something I enjoy?
    Bob Schieffer
    American television journalist (1937 - )
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  • Michael Korda One way to keep momentum going is to have constantly greater goals.
    Michael Korda
    American publisher (1933 - )
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  • Lao-Tzu One who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.
    Lao-Tzu
    Chinese philosopher (600 - 550)
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  • Tallulah Bankhead Only good girls keep diaries. Bad girls don't have time.
    Tallulah Bankhead
    American actress (1902 - 1968)
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