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  • Henry Thomas Buckle There should be a certain ratio between those who are most inclined to think, and those who are most inclined to act.
    Source: History of civilization
    Henry Thomas Buckle
    English historian (1821 - 1862)
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  • William E. Gladstone There should be a sympathy with freedom, a desire to give it scope, founded not upon visionary ideas, but upon the long experience of many generations within the shores of this happy isle, that in freedom you lay the firmest foundations both of loyalty and order.
    William E. Gladstone
    British Liberal Prime Minister, Statesman (1809 - 1888)
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  • Mother Teresa There should be less talk; a preaching point is not a meeting point. What do you do then? Take a broom and clean someone's house. That says enough.
    Mother Teresa
    Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic nun and missionary (1910 - 1997)
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  • Benjamin Watson There shouldn't be any looting or anything like that. But we're seeing a lot of frustration, and nobody knows the answer. All of us are saying we need an answer, and what I'm saying is we need, all of us, a heart change so, as America, we can move forward.
    Benjamin Watson
    American football player (1980 - )
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  • Boris Kodjoe There was a certain point in my life where I had to decide that I was going to take my future and Nicole's and not wallow in what happened to me because when you do that, you just keep repeating what's been happening and at some point you have to make a choice.
    Boris Kodjoe
    Austrian-American actor, producer (1973 - )
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  • Bruce Lipton There was a point where there was a vision that we'll get to a certain age, and then we'll retire and be happy. Now that's like, that's being compromised every day. So I think we have to start living happy now and stop waiting for the forty years because by then you'll be so sick, you wouldn't enjoy it anyway.
    Bruce Lipton
    American developmental biologist (1944 - )
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  • Bud Grant There was a prison uprising at Alcatraz, and I drove the Marines over there in a landing craft to quell the riot. I am the only serviceman I know with an American Theatre ribbon.
    Bud Grant
    American football coach and player (1927 - )
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  • Barry McGuire There was a report that used to come out back in those days, I don't know if it was the Gavin Report or something like that. And they said, no matter what McGuire comes out with next, we're not gonna play it.
    Barry McGuire
    American singer-songwriter (1935 - )
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  • Bob Newhart There was a sea of change in comedy in the late 1950s and '60s. We were dealing with vignettes as opposed to jokes. We were more socially aware.
    Bob Newhart
    American stand-up comedian and actor (1929 - )
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  • Adlai Stevenson II There was a time when a fool and his money were soon parted, but now it happens to everybody.
    Adlai Stevenson II
    American politician and governor (1900 - 1965)
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  • Beth Broderick There was a time when I was enamored of the Clintons. I knocked on doors, phone-banked and rallied during his campaign.
    Beth Broderick
    American actress (1959 - )
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  • Bridget Riley There was a time when meanings were focused and reality could be fixed; when that sort of belief disappeared, things became uncertain and open to interpretation.
    Source: The Eyes Mind: Collected Writings 1965-2009 (2009)
    Bridget Riley
    English painter (1931 - )
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  • Billy Idol There was a time when my whole life was in chaos, really, and I didn't help myself sort it out. But one day I came to my senses, and I think I was lucky because a lot of people don't.
    Billy Idol
    English musician, singer, songwriter, and actor (1955 - )
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  • Agnetha Faltskog There was a time when the music fell silent. Both within me and around me.
    Agnetha Faltskog
    Swedish singer, songwriter and actress (1950 - )
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  • Burt Rutan There was a wonderful little short four-year time period when marvelous things happened. It started in 1908, when the Wright brothers flew in Paris, and everybody said, 'Ooh, hey, I can do that.' There's only a few people that have flown in early 1908. In four years, 39 countries had hundreds of airplanes, thousands of pilots.
    Burt Rutan
    American aerospace engineer and entrepreneur (1943 - )
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  • Bernard Hill There was an undercurrent of poverty throughout my childhood. We lived with my grandmother in her two-bedroom flat, and I slept with my parents. We had cheap holidays, I had to save for my bike and get a paper round as soon as I was old enough.
    Bernard Hill
     
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  • Mark Twain There was never a century nor a country that was short of experts who knew the Deity's mind and were willing to reveal it.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Ben Platt There was never anything else I wanted to pursue. It was always theater, and movies are a fairly new thing.
    Ben Platt
    American actor, singer, and songwriter (1993 - )
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  • Mark Twain There was never yet an uninteresting life. Such a thing is an impossibility. Inside of the dullest exterior there is a drama, a comedy, and a tragedy.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Percy Bysshe Shelley There was no corn - in the wide market-place all loathliest things, even human flesh, was sold; They weighed it in small scales - and many a face was fixed in eager horror then; his gold the miser brought; the tender maid, grown bold through hunger, bared her scorned charms in vain.
    Percy Bysshe Shelley
    English poet (1792 - 1822)
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