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  • Gloria Steinem Whenever one person stands up and says, “Wait a minute, this is wrong,” it helps other people do the same.
    Gloria Steinem
    American feminist writer (1934 - )
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  • Brigid Brophy Whenever people say we mustn't be sentimental, you can take it they are about to do something cruel. And, if they add, we must be realistic, they mean they are going to make money out of it.
    Brigid Brophy
    British novelist and critic (1929 - 1995)
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  • Thomas Jefferson Whenever there are in any country uncultivated lands and unemployed poor, it is clear that the laws of property have been so far extended as to violate natural right. The earth is given as a common stock for man to labor and live on. The small landowners are the most precious part of a state.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Barry Manilow Whenever there was a choice between music and anything else, music won hands down every time.
    Barry Manilow
    American singer-songwriter, producer and actor (1943 - )
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  • William James Whenever two people meet there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as the other person sees him, and each man as he really is.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Bell Hooks Whenever women struggle with breast cancer and face better care than ever, that's feminism.
    Bell Hooks
    American author, professor, feminist (born G.J.Watkins) (1952 - 2021)
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  • Theodore Roosevelt Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell em, ''Certainly I can!'' - and get busy and find out how to do it.
    Theodore Roosevelt
    American statesman (1858 - 1919)
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  • Thomas Jefferson Whenever you are to do a thing, though it can never be known but to yourself, ask yourself how you would act were all the world looking at you, and act accordingly.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Bruce Feirstein Whenever you do anything with Bond, you've got Cubby Broccoli and Sean Connery looking over your shoulder.
    Bruce Feirstein
    American screenwriter and humorist (1956 - )
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  • Mark Twain Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Mahatma Gandhi Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • Socrates Whenever, therefore, people are deceived and form opinions wide of the truth, it is clear that the error has slid into their minds through the medium of certain resemblances to that truth.
    Socrates
    Greek philosopher (469 - 399)
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  • David Hume Where ambition can cover its enterprises, even to the person himself, under the appearance of principle, it is the most incurable and inflexible of passions.
    David Hume
    Scottish Philosopher, Historian (1711 - 1776)
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  • Bill Clinton Where are the jobs going to come from?Small business, manufacturing and clean energy. Where's the money to finance them? The banks and the corporations in America today have lots of money that they can invest right now.
    Bill Clinton
    President of the US (1946 - )
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  • Aldous Huxley Where beauty is worshipped for beauty's sake as a goddess, independent of and superior to morality and philosophy, the most horrible putrefaction is apt to set in. The lives of the aesthetes are the far from edifying commentary on the religion of beauty.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Carl Sagan Where did God come from? If we decide this is an unanswerable question why not save a step and conclude that the origin of the universe is an unanswerable question.
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Alva Myrdal Where do these arms come from, these Saturday night specials that constitute the instrument of threats in bank robberies, or the hand grenades used by terrorists? How can their sales and their import be permitted?
    Alva Myrdal
    Swedish sociologist, diplomat and politician (1902 - 1986)
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  • Ben Jonson Where dost thou careless lie,
    Buried in ease and sloth?
    Knowledge that sleeps, doth die;
    And this security,
    It is the common moth,
    That eats on wits and arts, and oft destroys them both.
    Source: The Works of Ben Jonson, Second Folio XXIII, An Ode, to Himself, lines 1-6.
    Ben Jonson
    British Dramatist, Poet (1572 - 1637)
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  • Leon Trotsky Where force is necessary, there it must be applied boldly, decisively and completely. But one must know the limitations of force; one must know when to blend force with a maneuver, a blow with an agreement.
    Leon Trotsky
    Russian revolutionary and writer (1879 - 1940)
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  • Jonathan Swift Where I am not understood, it shall be concluded that something very useful and profound is couched underneath.
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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