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  • Andrew Jackson Unless you become more watchful in your states and check the spirit of monopoly and thirst for exclusive privileges you will in the end find that... the control over your dearest interests has passed into the hands of these corporations.
    Andrew Jackson
    American president (7th) (1767 - 1845)
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  • Bonnie Bedelia Unless you burst into movies as a sex goddess, you're likely to play wives and mothers. I came into movies as a teenager in 'They Shoot Horses, Don't They' (1969) playing a pregnant waif from the Ozarks. I didn't get a chance to burst into movies in 'Body Heat.' My career isn't based on having a 23-inch waist and a big bust, though I do.
    Bonnie Bedelia
    American actress (1948 - )
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  • Alan Cranston Unless you have a sense of values that's shared by people and turns them loose to do certain things on their own within those sets of values, the organization, whether a nation or corporation or citizen group, just doesn't work very well.
    Alan Cranston
    American politician and journalist (1914 - 2000)
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  • Billy Sunday Unless you have made a complete surrender and are doing his will it will avail you nothing if you've reformed a thousand times and have your name on fifty church records.
    Source: Billy Sunday, the Man and His Message: With His Own Words which Have Won Thousands for Christ (1917)
    Billy Sunday
    American athlete and evangelist (1862 - 1935)
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  • George Gilder Unlike femininity, relaxed masculinity is at bottom empty, a limp nullity. While the female body is full of internal potentiality, the male is internally barren. Manhood at the most basic level can be validated and expressed only in action.
    George Gilder
     
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  • Bradley A. Smith Unlike many in the conservative camp, I accept theories of global warming, and accept that man-made activity has played a part in global warming. My differences have only been on what the solutions should be.
    Bradley A. Smith
    American law professor (1958 - )
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  • Bill Nye Unlike science, creationism cannot predict anything, and it cannot provide satisfactory answers about the past.
    Bill Nye
    American science communicator, television presenter (1955 - )
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  • Aldous Huxley Unlike the masses, intellectuals have a taste for rationality and an interest in facts.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes Unpretending mediocrity is good, and genius is glorious; but a weak flavor of genius in an essentially common person is detestable. It spoils the grand neutrality of a commonplace character, as the rinsings of an unwashed wine-glass spoil a draught of fair water.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Bo Bennett Untapped potential is the difference between where a person is now and where he or she can be.
    Bo Bennett
    American author (1972 - )
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  • Aslan Maskhadov Until fighting ends and there are conditions, which allow the free expression of will by the people, there can be no elections and elections are not held in these circumstances anywhere in the world.
    Aslan Maskhadov
    Chechen politician (1951 - 2005)
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  • Bruce Springsteen Until I realized that rock music was my connection to the rest of the human race, I felt like I was dying, for some reason, and I didn't know why.
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • John B. S. Haldane Until politics are a branch of science we shall do well to regard political and social reforms as experiments rather than short-cuts to the millennium.
    John B. S. Haldane
    British scientist, writer (1892 - 1964)
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  • Bell Hooks Until the legacy of remembered and reenacted trauma is taken seriously, black America cannot heal.
    Bell Hooks
    American author, professor, feminist (born G.J.Watkins) (1952 - 2021)
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  • Arthur Capper Until the people, by amendment, change the constitution, I urge that the counties cooperate with one another, that future road work be more uniform, and done in such a way that it will result in connected and continuous highways.
    Arthur Capper
    American politician (1865 - 1951)
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  • Anita Diamant Until very recently men and women inhabited very separate spheres. There was always interconnection, passion, love. But men and women didn't hang out at the end of the day and chat about what their day was like at the office.
    Anita Diamant
    American author (1951 - )
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  • Carrie P. Meek Until we all start to take responsibility, until we do all we can to improve the character of our communities, we'll never break the cycle of violence and indifference.
    Carrie P. Meek
    American politician (1926 - )
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  • Bernard Bailyn Up and down the the still sparsely settled coast of British North America, groups of men-intellectuals and farmers, scholars and merchants, the learned and the ignorant-gathered for the purpose of constructing enlightened governments.
    Source: The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution Ch. VI, THE CONTAGION OF LIBERTY, p. 231
    Bernard Bailyn
    American historian, author, and academic (1922 - 2020)
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  • Bradley Denton Upon finding his quarry, he would learn what he could, make an evaluation, and act accordingly. Then he would tell his superiors whatever they wanted to hear, just as he always had.
    Source: Buddy Holly is Alive and Well on Ganymede (1991)
    Bradley Denton
    American science fiction author (1958 - )
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  • Caleb Cushing Upon the Constitution, upon the pre-existing legal rights of the People, as understood in this country and in England, I have argued that this House is bound to revive the Petition under debate.
    Caleb Cushing
    American Democratic politician and diplomat (1800 - 1879)
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