Quotes with nine-and-a-half

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  • Bennie Thompson While I agree that homegrown terrorism and the jihadist threat deserve continuing attention, a single-minded approach ignores all other threats.
    Bennie Thompson
    American politician (1948 - )
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  • Amartya Sen While I am interested both in economics and in philosophy, the union of my interests in the two fields far exceeds their intersection.
    Amartya Sen
    Indian economist and philospher
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  • John B. S. Haldane While I do not suggest that humanity will ever be able to dispense with its martyrs, I cannot avoid the suspicion that with a little more thought and a little less belief their number may be substantially reduced.
    John B. S. Haldane
    British scientist, writer (1892 - 1964)
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  • Barney Frank While I was pleasantly surprised by the relatively high number of jobs created in April, the fact is that job creation during this recovery period has significantly lagged both historical experience in recovery, and the projections of the Bush Administration.
    Barney Frank
    American politician (1940 - )
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  • Ann Beattie While I would agree that I write about serious subjects, and that they're not necessarily the most pleasant subjects or even the most pleasant people, as a writer I just think about the humorous aspects of these things - that's what keeps me going when I'm writing a story.
    Ann Beattie
    American novelist (1947 - )
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  • Boyle Roche While I write this letter, I have a pistol in one hand and a sword in the other.
    Boyle Roche
    Irish politician
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  • Brad Feld While I've had plenty of ups and downs, dealt with my share of failure, and struggled through emotionally difficult periods, I'm fundamentally an optimist.
    Brad Feld
    American entrepreneur, and author
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  • Baruj Benacerraf While in medical school, I was drafted into the U.S. Army with the other medical students as part of the wartime training program, and naturalized American citizen in 1943. I greatly enjoyed my medical studies, which at the Medical College of Virginia were very clinically oriented.
    Baruj Benacerraf
    Venezuelan-American immunologist (1920 - 2011)
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  • Bryant H. McGill While it is important for people to see your promise you must also remember that hope is the keeper of both happiness and disappointment, the father of both progress and failure.
    Bryant H. McGill
    American journalist and author (1969 - )
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  • Bart Gordon While it may be true that the UAE has been an ally since the September 11, 2001, attacks, the American people know it has also harbored and aided some of the al Qaeda agents who were involved in that attack.
    Bart Gordon
    American lawyer (1949 - )
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  • Brit Morin While it's true that women are the minority in most tech companies, I don't think that inhibits entry into the tech space. My motto has always been, 'Live What You Love,' and as such, I think it's incredibly important to do work you believe in and to work for a company that has values that align with your own, be it in tech or another industry.
    Brit Morin
    American entrepreneur (1985 - )
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe While man's desires and aspirations stir he cannot choose but err.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Richard Buckminster Fuller While no politician or political system can ever afford to yield understandably and enthusiastically to their adversaries and opposers, all politicians can and will yield enthusiastically to the computers safe flight-controlling capabilities in bringing all of humanity in for a happy landing.
    Source: Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth (1963)
    Richard Buckminster Fuller
    American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, and inventor (1895 - 1983)
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  • Amos Bronson Alcott While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be.
    Amos Bronson Alcott
    American educator and social reformer (1799 - 1888)
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  • Henry C. Link While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, another is busy making mistakes and becoming superior.
    Henry C. Link
     
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  • Al Gore While President Bush likes to project an image of strength and courage, the real truth is that in the presence of his large financial contributors, he is a moral coward.
    Al Gore
    American politician and environmentalist (1948 - )
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  • Bill Condon While that wasn't first and foremost in my mind, you can't get into this without being struck, on one side, by how far we've come, and then the other side, by how little things have changed.
    Bill Condon
    American director and screenwriter (1955 - )
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  • Barack Obama While the evidence tells me that the death penalty does little to deter crime, I believe there are some crimes- mass murder, the rape and murder of a child- so heinous, so beyond the pale, that the community is justified in expressing the full measure of its outrage by meting out the ultimate punishment.
    Source: The Audacity of Hope (2006)
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Brad Feld While the line between stress, deep anxiety, and depression often blurs, most entrepreneurs struggle with broad mental health issues at various points in their lives.
    Brad Feld
    American entrepreneur, and author
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  • Terence While the mind is in doubt it is driven this way and that by a slight impulse.
    Terence
    Roman writer of comedies (190 - 159)
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