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  • Thomas Wolfe There are some people who have the quality of richness and joy in them and they communicate it to everything they touch. It is first of all a physical quality; then it is a quality of the spirit.
    Thomas Wolfe
    American writer and journalist (1900 - 1938)
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  • Douglas Adams There are some people you like immediately, some whom you think you might learn to like in the fullness of time, and some that you simply want to push away from you with a sharp stick.
    Douglas Adams
    British science-fiction writer (1952 - 2001)
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  • Bernard Goldberg There are some programs on FOX that are not only fair and balanced, they're commentary shows. They don't have to be. But they brag about how fair and balanced they are. They don't cover rallies and tea parties. They cheer lead for rallies and tea parties. And as a journalist, I am totally against that.
    Bernard Goldberg
    American author and journalist (1945 - )
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  • Bram Stoker There are such beings as vampires, some of us have evidence that they exist. Even had we not the proof of our own unhappy experience, the teachings and the records of the past give proof enough for sane peoples.
    Bram Stoker
    Irish author (1847 - 1912)
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  • A. S. Byatt There are things that happen and leave no discernible trace, are not spoken of or written of, though it would be wrong to say that subsequent events go on indifferently, all the same, as though such things had never been.
    Possession (1990) Postscript, Page 50
    A. S. Byatt
    English novelist and poet (1936 - )
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  • Belle Boyd There are those who maintain that in this world women have no right to interfere in the affairs of state, in politics, in plots and counter-plots. Others that are who, more chivalrous, are willing to admit that women have as much right to act, think, and speak as men.
    Belle Boyd
    American Confederate spy (1844 - 1900)
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  • Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle There are three things I have loved but never understood. Art, music and women.
    Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle
    French author (1657 - 1757)
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  • Betty Parsons There are three things we have no control over: our birth; our emotions, if we're sincere; and our death.
    Betty Parsons
    American artist, art dealer, and collector (1900 - 1982)
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  • Carl Honore There are times when fixing things quickly is the only option: when you have to channel MacGyver, reach for the duct tape, and cobble together whatever solution works right now. If someone is choking on a morsel of food, you don't sit back, stroke your chin and take the Aristotelian long view. You quickly administer the Heimlich maneuvre.
    Carl Honore
    Canadian journalist (1967 - )
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  • Bertolt Brecht There are times when you have to choose between being a human and having good taste.
    Bertolt Brecht
    German - Austrian writer (1898 - 1956)
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  • Leo Buscaglia There are two big forces at work, external and internal. We have very little control over external forces such as tornadoes, earthquakes, floods, disasters, illness and pain. What really matters is the internal force. How do I respond to those disasters? Over that I have complete control.
    Leo Buscaglia
    American author and motivational speaker (1924 - 1998)
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  • Dave Barry There are two distinctive classes of people today, those who have personal computers, and those who have several thousand extra dollars apiece.
    Dave Barry
    American humorist, writer
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  • Brad Feld There are two great fictional TV series about technology and the computer industry that each have now had three seasons. The one everyone knows about is 'Silicon Valley.' The lesser-known one is 'Halt and Catch Fire.'
    Brad Feld
    American entrepreneur, and author
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  • Billy Graham There are two great forces, God's force of good and the devil's force of evil, and I believe Satan is alive and he is working, and he is working harder than ever, and we have many mysteries that we don't understand.
    Billy Graham
    American Evangelist (1918 - 2018)
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  • C. S. Lewis There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, ''Thy will be done,'' and those to whom God says, ''All right, then, have it your way.''
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Pearl Bailey There are two kinds of talent, man-made talent and God-given talent. With man-made talent you have to work very hard. With God-given talent, you just touch it up once in a while.
    Pearl Bailey
    American actress (1918 - 1990)
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  • Arthur Keith There are very few men and women in whom a Universalist feeling is altogether lacking; its prevalence suggests that it must be part of our inborn nature and have a place in Nature's scheme of evolution.
    Arthur Keith
    Scottish anatomist and anthropologist (1866 - 1952)
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  • André Gide There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
    André Gide
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1947) (1869 - 1951)
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld There are very few people who are not ashamed of having been in love when they no longer love each other.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Anatole France There are very honest people who do not think that they have had a bargain unless they have cheated a merchant.
    Anatole France
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1921) (1844 - 1924)
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