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  • Daniel Day Lewis Being at the center of a film is a burden one takes on with innocence - the first time. Thereafter, you take it on with trepidation.
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  • Horace Believe that each day that shines on you is your last.
    Horace
    Roman poet
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  • William Cowper Beware of desperate steps. The darkest day, j live till tomorrow, will have pass'd away.
    William Cowper
    English poet (1731 - 1800)
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  • Charles Simmons Bigotry and intolerance, silenced by argument, endeavors to silence by persecution, in old days by fire and sword, in modern days by the tongue.
    Charles Simmons
    American editor and novelist (1798 - 1856)
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  • Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn Blow the dust off the clock. Your watches are behind the times. Throw open the heavy curtains which are so dear to you - you do not even suspect that the day has already dawned outside.
    Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn
    Russian Novelist (1918 - 2008)
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  • Thomas B. Aldrich Books that have become classics - books that have had their day and now get more praise than perusal - always remind me of retired colonels and majors and captains who, having reached the age limit, find themselves retired on half pay.
    Thomas B. Aldrich
    American writer, editor (1836 - 1907)
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  • William Blake Both read the Bible day and night, but thou read black where I read white.
    William Blake
    English poet (1757 - 1827)
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  • Mary McCarthy Bureaucracy, the rule of no one, has become the modern form of despotism.
    Mary McCarthy
    American author (1912 - 1989)
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  • Matthew Arnold But each day brings its petty dust our soon-choked souls to fill, and we forget because we must, and not because we will.
    Matthew Arnold
    British critic and poet (1822 - 1888)
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  • John Milton But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts benighted walks under the mid-day sun; Himself is his own dungeon.
    John Milton
    English poet, polemicist and man of letters (1608 - 1674)
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  • Al Franken But in the right-wing media, they do have a right-wing bias. And they also have an agenda. So their agenda is: we're an adjunct of the Republican Party, and we're going push that agenda every day, and, as you say, brand these stories that help further the right-wing cause.
    Al Franken
    American comedian, politician and author (1951 - )
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  • Benjamin Netanyahu But so far, you know who's been violating the nuclear nonproliferation pact day and night? Those who signed it. Iran, Iraq, Libya and Iran violates it while calling for Israel's destruction and racing to develop atomic weapons to that end.
    Benjamin Netanyahu
    Israeli politician (2009 - )
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  • Ronald Reagan But there are advantages to being elected President. The day after I was elected, I had my high school grades classified Top Secret.
    Ronald Reagan
    American politician and actor (1911 - 2004)
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  • Barack Obama But what we can do, as flawed as we are, is still see God in other people, and do our best to help them find their own grace. That's what I strive to do, that's what I pray to do every day.
    Statement during National Prayer Breakfast (27 September 2010)
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Ben Affleck But when I felt like I had something to prove? Then I got up early every morning and worked all day long. I didn't know if I had any more talent than anyone else directing, but I knew I could work hard at it, and so I did.
    Ben Affleck
    American actor and filmmaker. (1972 - )
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  • Bayard Taylor But who will watch my lilies, When their blossoms open white? By day the sun shall be sentry, And the moon and the stars by night!
    Bayard Taylor
    American poet, travel author, and diplomat (1825 - 1878)
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  • Friedrich Engels By bourgeoisie is meant the class of modern capitalists, owners of the means of social production and employers of wage labor. By proletariat, the class of modern wage laborers who, having no means of production of their own, are reduced to selling their labor power in order to live.
    Friedrich Engels
    German industrialist, philosopher and social scientist (1820 - 1895)
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  • Dorothea Brande By going over your day in imagination before you begin it, you can begin acting successfully at any moment.
    Dorothea Brande
    American writer and editor (1893 - 1948)
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  • Robert Frost By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may eventually get to be a boss and work twelve hours a day.
    Robert Frost
    American poet (1874 - 1963)
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  • Bob Considine Call it vanity, call it arrogant presumption, call it what you wish, but I would grope for the nearest open grave if I had no newspaper to work for, no need to search for and sometimes find the winged word that just fits, no keen wonder over what each unfolding day may bring.
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