Quotes with nine-and-a-half

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  • Al Capone This American system of ours. call it Americanism, call it capitalism, call it what you like, gives to each and every one of us a great opportunity if we only seize it with both hands and make the most of it.
    Al Capone
    American gangster and businessman (1899 - 1947)
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  • Beth Ditto This archaic idea - that a woman who is unmarried and childless at 30 is somehow unnatural - will probably always exist, and, like most social standards, it is ridiculous.
    Beth Ditto
    American singer-songwriter and actress (1981 - )
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  • Carter G. Woodson This assumption of Negro leadership in the ghetto, then, must not be confined to matters of religion, education, and social uplift; it must deal with such fundamental forces in life as make these things possible.
    Carter G. Woodson
    American historian, author and journalist (1875 - 1950)
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  • Barney Frank This bill is the legislative equivalent of crack. It yields a short-term high but does long-term damage to the system and it's expensive to boot.
    Barney Frank
    American politician (1940 - )
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  • Richard Buckminster Fuller This book is written with the conviction that there are no 'good' or 'bad' people, no matter how offensive or eccentric to society they may seem... You and I didn't design people. God designed people. What I am trying to do is to discover why God included humans in Universe.
    Source: Critical Path (1981)
    Richard Buckminster Fuller
    American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, and inventor (1895 - 1983)
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  • Abbott Eliot Kittredge This bread and wine are the simple but eloquent monument to the infinite love of the Son of God, around which we gather with tender, tearful gratitude, because He loved us'so, and because we know that our garlands of affection and consecration are pleasing to Him.
    Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
    Abbott Eliot Kittredge
    American minister (1834 - 1912)
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  • Benjamin Tucker This brings us to Anarchism, which may be described as the doctrine that all the affairs of men should be managed by individuals or voluntary associations, and that the State should be abolished.
    Benjamin Tucker
    American anarchist and socialist (1854 - 1939)
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  • Albert Szent-Gyorgyi This celebration here tells me that this work is not hopeless. I thank you for this teaching with all my heart and lift my glass to human solidarity, to the ultimate victory of knowledge, peace, good-will and understanding.
    Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
    Hungarian physician and Nobel Prize winner in Medicine (1893 - 1986)
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  • Bill Clinton This ceremony is held in the depth of winter. But, by the words we speak and the faces we show the world, we force the spring.
    Source: Inaugural Address, 20 January 1993
    Bill Clinton
    President of the US (1946 - )
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  • Arthur Golden This character's entirely invented, and the woman that I interviewed wouldn't recognize herself, or really anything about herself, in this book, which she hasn't read, because she doesn't read English.
    Arthur Golden
    American writer (1956 - )
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  • William Wordsworth This city now doth, like a garment, wear the beauty of the morning; silent bare, ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples lie open unto the fields and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.
    William Wordsworth
    English poet (1770 - 1850)
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  • Begum Aga Khan This Clash of Civilizations has led to a Clash of Religions, leading in turn to war, terror and extreme poverty.
    Source: International Business and Leadership Symposium address
    Begum Aga Khan
    French Egyptian artist and last wife of Sultan Aga Khan III (1906 - 2000)
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  • Bryant Gumbel This comes at a time when Republicans are looking to gut the Clean Water Act and also the Safe Drinking Water Act. What are our options? Are we now forced to boil water because bottled water is not an economically feasible option for a lot of people?
    Bryant Gumbel
    American television journalist and sportscaster (1948 - )
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  • George Bernard Shaw This comes of James teaching me to think for myself, and never to hold back out of fear of what other people may think of me. It works beautifully as long as I think the same things as he does.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • John F. Kennedy This country cannot afford to be materially rich and spiritually poor.
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • Will Rogers This country has gotten where it is in spite of politics, not by the aid of it. That we have carried as much political bunk as we have and still survived shows we are a super nation.
    Will Rogers
    American actor and humorist (1879 - 1935)
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  • Byron Dorgan This country needs to get a backbone and stand up for its economic interest.
    Byron Dorgan
    American author, businessman (1942 - )
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  • Thomas E. Lawrence This death's livery which walled its bearers from ordinary life was sign that they have sold their wills and bodies to the State: and contracted themselves into a service not the less abject for that its beginning was voluntary.
    Thomas E. Lawrence
    British archaeologist, military officer, diplomat, and writer (1888 - 1935)
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  • Ban Ki-moon This Earth is our only home. Together, we must protect and cherish it.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Stevie Smith This Englishwoman is so refined, she has no bosom and no behind.
    Stevie Smith
    English poet and novelist (1902 - 1971)
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