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  • Pearl S. Buck Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied.
    Pearl S. Buck
    American novelist (1892 - 1973)
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  • Ali Smith Every great narrative is at least two narratives, if not more - the thing that is on the surface and then the things underneath which are invisible.
    Ali Smith
    Scottish author, playwright and journalist (1962 - )
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  • William Arthur Ward Every great person has first learned how to obey, whom to obey, and when to obey.
    William Arthur Ward
    American writer and poet (1921 - 1994)
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  • Byron Nelson Every great player has learned the two Cs: how to concentrate and how to maintain composure.
    Shape your swing the modern way (1976)
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  • William Ellery Channing Every human being has a work to carry on within, duties to perform abroad, influence to exert, which are peculiarly his, and which no conscience but his own can teach.
    William Ellery Channing
    American Unitarian minister (1780 - 1842)
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  • Cass Sunstein Every human being has an assortment of diverse identities, and it greatly matters which one is triggered by social situations, which hold up different kinds of mirrors. The same is true for nations.
    Cass Sunstein
    American legal scholar (1954 - )
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  • Lydia M. Child Every human being has, like Socrates, an attendant spirit; and wise are they who obey its signals. If it does not always tell us what to do, it always cautions us what not to do.
    Lydia M. Child
    American Abolitionist, Writer, Editor (1802 - 1880)
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  • William Ellery Channing Every human being is intended to have a character of his own; to be what no others are, and to do what no other can do.
    William Ellery Channing
    American Unitarian minister (1780 - 1842)
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  • Caleb Carr Every human being must find his own way to cope with severe loss, and the only job of a true friend is to facilitate whatever method he chooses.
    Caleb Carr
    American military historian and author (1955 - )
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  • Buffalo Bill Every Indian outbreak that I have ever known has resulted from broken promises and broken treaties by the government.
    Buffalo Bill Museum (1995)
    Buffalo Bill
    American soldier, bison hunter, and showman (1846 - 1917)
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  • Alfred Adler Every individual acts and suffers in accordance with his peculiar teleology, which has all the inevitability of fate, so long as he does not understand it.
    Alfred Adler
    Austrian psychiatrist (1870 - 1937)
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  • Ben Foster Every job is a blessing. Everyone has to take into account what is available. Are you paying rent, who do you get to work with? There are a lot of variables in the job. What I'm drawn to is things that I don't completely understand maybe, and want to get a better feel for it.
    Ben Foster
    American actor (1980 - )
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  • Alexander Maclaren Every life has dark tracts and long stretches of somber tint, and no representation is true to fact which dips its pencil only in light, and flings no shadows on the canvas.
    Alexander Maclaren
    British preacher (1826 - 1910)
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  • Henri-Frédéric Amiel Every life is a profession of faith, and exercises an inevitable and silent influence.
    Henri-Frédéric Amiel
    Swiss philosopher and poet (1821 - 1881)
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  • Cesare Pavese Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in the world.
    Cesare Pavese
    Italian writer and poet (1908 - 1950)
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  • Bradley A. Smith Every major federal campaign-finance-reform effort since 1943 has attempted to treat corporations and unions equally. If a limit applied to corporations, it applied to unions; if unions could form PACs, corporations could too; and so on. DISCLOSE is the first major campaign-finance bill that has not taken this approach.
    Bradley A. Smith
    American law professor (1958 - )
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  • Konrad Lorenz Every man gets a narrower and narrower field of knowledge in which he must be an expert in order to compete with other people. The specialist knows more and more about less and less and finally knows everything about nothing.
    Konrad Lorenz
    German so lied (1903 - 1989)
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  • Samuel Johnson Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Barbara Cartland Every man has been brought up with the idea that decent women don't pop in and out of bed; he has always been told by his mother that nice girls don't. He finds, of course, when he gets older that this may be untrue - but only in a certain section of society.
    Barbara Cartland
    English author of romance novels (1901 - 2000)
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  • Josh Billings Every man has his follies - and often they are the most interesting thing he had got.
    Josh Billings
    American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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