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  • Adnan Pachachi An apology for the actions of some troops who, of course, are not representative of the majority of the armed forces here, I think that would have been useful and it would have helped to some extent.
    Adnan Pachachi
    Iraqi and Emirati politician (1923 - 2019)
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  • Samuel Butler An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard only one side of the case; God has written all the books.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Baroness Orczy An apology? Bah! Disgusting! Cowardly! Beneath the dignity of any gentleman, however wrong he might be.
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  • James Russell Lowell An appeal to the reason of the people has never been known to fail in the long run.
    James Russell Lowell
    American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat (1819 - 1891)
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  • Agatha Christie An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested he is in her.
    Life Magazine, 14 May 1956
    Agatha Christie
    British writer (1890 - 1976)
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  • Andy Warhol An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.
    Andy Warhol
    American artist (1928 - 1987)
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  • Alberto Salazar An athlete who tells you the training is always easy and always fun simply hasn't been there. Goals can be elusive which makes the difficult journey all the more rewarding.
    Alberto Salazar
    American track coach and long-distance runner (1958 - )
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  • Maria Montessori An educational method that shall have liberty as its basis must intervene to help the child to a conquest of liberty. That is to say, his training must be such as shall help him to diminish as much as possible the social bonds which limit his activity.
    Maria Montessori
    Italian educationalist (1870 - 1952)
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  • Thomas Traherne An empty book is like an infant's soul, in which anything may be written. It is capable of all things, but containeth nothing. I have a mind to fill this with profitable wonders.
    Thomas Traherne
    British Clergyman, Poet, Mystic (1636 - 1674)
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  • Irvin S. Cobb An epitaph is a belated advertisement for a line of goods that has been discontinued.
    Irvin S. Cobb
    American author, humorist, editor and columnist (1876 - 1944)
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  • Benoit Mandelbrot An extraordinary amount of arrogance is present in any claim of having been the first in inventing something.
    Benoit Mandelbrot
    Polish-born French and American mathematician and polymath (1924 - 2010)
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  • Amy Hempel An idea might spark an essay, but never a story.
    (2008)
    Amy Hempel
    American short story writer and journalist (1951 - )
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  • Will Rogers An ignorant person is one who doesn't know what you have just found out.
    Will Rogers
    American actor and humorist (1879 - 1935)
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  • A. W. Tozer An infinite God can give all of Himself to each of His children. He does not distribute Himself that each may have a part, but to each one He gives all of Himself as fully as if there were no others.
    A. W. Tozer
    American Christian pastor, preacher and author
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  • Antonio Tabucchi An intellectual is going to have doubts, for example, about a fundamentalist religious doctrine that admits no doubt, about an imposed political system that allows no doubt, about a perfect aesthetic that has no room for doubt.
    Antonio Tabucchi
    Italian writer and academic (1943 - )
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  • Bell Hooks An often-repeated assertion in the body of film criticism I have written is the assertion that movies do not just mirror the culture of any given time; they also create it.
    Bell Hooks
    American author, professor, feminist (born G.J.Watkins) (1952 - 2021)
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  • Augustine Birrell An ordinary man can surround himself with two thousand books and thenceforward have at least one place in the world in which it is always possible to be happy.
    Augustine Birrell
    British Liberal Party politician (1850 - 1933)
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  • Bjarne Stroustrup An organisation that treats its programmers as morons will soon have programmers that are willing and able to act like morons only.
    The C++ Programming Language. p.713
    Bjarne Stroustrup
    Danish computer scientist (1950 - )
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  • Alejandro Amenabar An Oscar means a lot of things because it's like the ultimate award for a filmmaker so it feels great. But I think you have to consider awards with some distance and not get obsessed with it. When you're creating you shouldn't think about it.
    Alejandro Amenabar
    Spanish-Chilean film director, screenwriter and composer (1972 - )
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  • Bob Dylan An' though the rules of the road have been lodged
    It's only people's games that you got to dodge
    Bringing It All Back Home (1965)
    Bob Dylan
    American musician (1941 - )
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