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  • Ben Jonson Ambition, like a torrent, ne'er looks back;
    And is a swelling, and the last affection
    A high mind can put off; being both a rebel
    Unto the soul and reason, and enforceth
    All laws, all conscience, treads upon religion,
    and offereth violence to nature's self.
    Source: Catiline His Conspiracy
    Ben Jonson
    British Dramatist, Poet (1572 - 1637)
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  • Ben Stein Americans are terrified because so many of them have been laid off in recent years and months and they fear that they may be next. Even if they have not been laid off or have not known anyone laid off, they definitely know someone who has lost his home.
    Ben Stein
    American professor, writer
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  • Quentin Crisp An autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last installment missing.
    Quentin Crisp
    English writer and actor (1908 - 1999)
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  • Bobby Ray Inman And Oliver North was really a good soldier, up to the last moment, shoving memos into the shredder and defending the policy to the end.
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  • Marcus Aurelius And thou wilt give thyself relief, if thou doest every act of thy life as if it were the last.
    Marcus Aurelius
    Roman emperor (121 - 180)
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  • Billy Martin Another club can be beating you for six innings but for some reason the good ball clubs get tough and win them in the last three.
    Billy Martin
    American Major League Baseball player and manager (1928 - )
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  • Joan Didion Another thing I need to do, when I'm near the end of the book, is sleep in the same room with it...Somehow the book doesn't leave you when you're asleep right next to it.
    Source: Faceboek (2011)
    Joan Didion
    American Essayist (1934 - 2021)
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  • Adam Clymer Another thing that's quite different in writing a book as a practicing newspaperman is that if you look at what you've written the next morning and you think you didn't get it quite right, you can fix it.
    Adam Clymer
    American journalist (1937 - 2018)
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  • Raymond Chandler Any man who can write a page of living prose adds something to our life, and the man who can, as I can, is surely the last to resent someone who can do it even better. An artist cannot deny art, nor would he want to. A lover cannot deny love.
    Raymond Chandler
    American writer (1888 - 1959)
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  • Alain de Botton Anyone who isn't embarrassed of who they were last year probably isn't learning enough.
    Alain de Botton
    Swiss-born British author (1969 - )
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  • Adolph Green As a main ingredient to the show, it has to have truth, represent truth, or else it won't last.
    Adolph Green
    American lyricist and playwright (1914 - 2002)
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  • Arlen Specter As a matter of traditional and sound constitutional doctrine, an amendment to the Constitution should be the last resort when all other measures have proved inadequate.
    Arlen Specter
    American lawyer, author, and politician (1930 - 2012)
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  • Brad Feld As an investor, I'm always looking for the next great American company. Who will create tomorrow's Twitter, Facebook, or Google?
    Brad Feld
    American entrepreneur, and author
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  • Byron Howard As animation directors, you're the first one on the film; you're the last one off, and you get to learn from and touch every department throughout the whole journey. I don't know any other job in the world that's like that. I don't think live-action is like that. It's a very different sort of experience.
    Byron Howard
    American film director and producer (1968 - )
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  • Ben Chandler As attorney general, I've had some connection with just about every important public issue in the last eight years in Kentucky. All of the important public issues of the day have, at some point.
    Ben Chandler
    American politician and lawyer (1959 - )
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  • Artur Davis As I prepare for this next phase in my life, I ask that people continue to offer the prayers that have protected me thus far. I also pray that I will always see those who are not seen and easy to forget in the hustle and bustle of Washington politics.
    Artur Davis
    American attorney and politician (1967 - )
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  • Anthony Holden As somebody who's been writing about this subject for getting on twenty years now, it's astonishing how the climate has changed in the last five years.
    Anthony Holden
    English writer, broadcaster and critic
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  • Bjorn Borg As tennis players, we work and we sacrifice many things. To lose, that's not a happy thing - I mean sure, I was disappointed. You have to come back strong. But to win the last point in a grand slam tournament, that's the most beautiful and most satisfying feeling you can get as a tennis player. It's worth it.
    Bjorn Borg
    Swedish tennis player (1956 - )
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  • Bill Gates As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.
    Source: As quoted in "In the Eye of the Storm: Reengineering Corporate Culture" (Leadership Press, 1995) by John R. Childress, p. 134
    Bill Gates
    American business magnate, investor, author and philanthropist (1955 - )
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  • Arne Duncan At a time when going to college has never been more important, it's never been more expensive, and our nation's families haven't been in this kind of financial duress since the great depression. And so what we have is just sort of a miraculous opportunity simply by stopping the subsidy to banks when we already have the risk of loans. We can plow those savings into our students. And we can make college dramatically more affordable, tens of billions of dollars over the next decade.
    Arne Duncan
    American civil servant (1964 - )
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