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  • Walter Bagehot An inability to stay quiet is one of the most conspicuous failings of mankind.
    Walter Bagehot
    English economist (1826 - 1877)
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  • Washington Irving An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather.
    Washington Irving
    American writer (1783 - 1859)
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  • Matthew Prior And 'tis remarkable that they talk most who have the least to say.
    Matthew Prior
    British diplomat, poet (1664 - 1721)
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  • Barry McGuire And a friend of mine in the Christys, we used to sit up at night and talk and read and wonder if reincarnation, and if it wasn't reality, what would happen to the human spirit when the body dies? Is there an afterlife? Just questions like that.
    Barry McGuire
    American singer-songwriter (1935 - )
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  • Barbara Walters And I really do believe that the most important thing is the way you live your life on earth. But I think it's enormously comforting to believe that you're going to see your loved ones.
    Barbara Walters
    American journalist and author (1929 - )
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  • Buck Owens And I said, 'Why not? It's the truth! Why can't I say I'm a Beatles fan?' I used to get criticized for that.
    Buck Owens
    American musician, singer, songwriter (1929 - 2006)
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  • Bernice Johnson Reagon And I used to think that proof that I had religion was whether I knew how to sing all of the songs.
    Bernice Johnson Reagon
    American composer, scholar, and social activist (1942 - )
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  • Carol Bellamy And most importantly perhaps, children can learn about their rights, share their knowledge with the children of other nations, identify problems with them and establish how they might work together to address them.
    Carol Bellamy
    American nonprofit executive (1942 - )
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  • Adolf Galland And most of these pilots were lost during the first five flights.
    Adolf Galland
    German Luftwaffe general (1912 - 1996)
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  • Bruce Nauman And so I put down some of the things that he said, about keeping your tools sharpened and not letting them lie on the ground where they get hurt or get abused and dirty and can't find them. And some thoughts about how his father used to do things.
    Bruce Nauman
    American artist (1941 - )
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  • Beatrice Wood And then, of course, most potters, they go in for earth tones and subdued things, and I like color.
    Beatrice Wood
    American artist (1893 - 1998)
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  • Carter G. Woodson And thus goes segregation which is the most far-reaching development in the history of the Negro since the enslavement of the race.
    Carter G. Woodson
    American historian, author and journalist (1875 - 1950)
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  • Bobby Sherman And we just went with Julie because that name hadn't been used in any other popular songs at the time.
    Bobby Sherman
    American singer and actor (1943 - )
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  • Robert E. Ornstein And, most important, we have to shift our understanding of ourselves as separate individuals, each seeking our own welfare, to an understanding of how we fit into social, biological, and physical environments.
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  • John Milton And, re-assembling our afflicted powers, consult how we may henceforth most offend.
    John Milton
    English poet, polemicist and man of letters (1608 - 1674)
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  • Clarendon Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed.
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  • Audre Lorde Anger, used, does not destroy. Hatred does.
    Audre Lorde
    American writer, feminist, womanist, librarian, and civil (1934 - 1992)
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  • Edward Hoagland Animals are stylized characters in a kind of old saga - stylized because even the most acute of them have little leeway as they play out their parts.
    Edward Hoagland
    American Novelist, Essayist (1932 - )
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  • Carine Roitfeld Anna Wintour is the most powerful woman in the global fashion industry, the first lady of fashion. She's a politician; I'm a stylist. They are two very different jobs.
    Carine Roitfeld
    French fashion editor (1954 - )
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  • Boethius Another cause of your sickness, and the most important: you have forgotten what you are.
    Boethius
    Roman senator, consul, magister officiorum, and philosopher (480 - 524)
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