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  • Bob Knight If the NBA were on channel 5 and a bunch of frogs making love was on channel 4, I'd watch the frogs even if they were coming in fuzzy.
    Bob Knight
    American basketball coach (1940 - )
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  • Carter G. Woodson If the Negroes are to remain forever removed from the producing atmosphere, and the present discrimination continues, there will be nothing left for them to do.
    Carter G. Woodson
    American historian, author and journalist (1875 - 1950)
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  • Bill Cosby If the new American father feels bewildered and even defeated, let him take comfort from the fact that whatever he does in any fathering situation has a fifty percent chance of being right.
    Bill Cosby
    American actor, comedian, producer (1937 - )
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  • Russell Hoban If the past cannot teach the present and the father cannot teach the son, then history need not have bothered to go on, and the world has wasted a great deal of time.
    Russell Hoban
    American writer (1925 - 2011)
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  • Edmund Burke If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude that to be good from whence good is derived.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • Barack Obama If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists - to protect them and to promote their common welfare - all else is lost.
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Bob Filner If the President really wanted to know exactly how Rove and Libby were involved, he could walk down to their offices and demand that they answer him honestly.
    Bob Filner
    American politician (1942 - )
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  • Andrew Johnson If the rabble were lopped off at one end and the aristocrats at the other, all would be well with the country.
    Andrew Johnson
    American politician and 17th US president (1808 - 1875)
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  • James Baldwin If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Bill Hybels If the request is wrong, God says, No. If the timing is wrong, God says, Slow. If you are wrong, God says, Grow. But if the request is right, the timing is right and you are right, God says, Go!
    Source: Too Busy Not to Pray
    Bill Hybels
    American church figure and author (1951 - )
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  • W. M. Thackeray If the secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader.
    W. M. Thackeray
    Indian-born, British novelist (1811 - 1863)
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  • Adnan Pachachi If the security forces continue to be dominated as they are now by political groups or sects, then the people won't trust in them - and the result will be civil war or fragmentation of the country.
    Adnan Pachachi
    Iraqi and Emirati politician (1923 - 2019)
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  • Bob Corker If the Senate can't perform its most basic responsibilities, I worry about how we're going to make the tough decisions and do the hard work that will be necessary to get our country on a path to fiscal solvency.
    Bob Corker
    American businessman and politician (1952 - )
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  • Pat Buchanan If the sexual revolution has been a medical disaster, socially it has been a catastrophe. Why do the media not report and explore the tragic results of the sexual revolution? Because many are collaborators.
    Pat Buchanan
    American politician author and columnist (1938 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson If the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • William Blake If the Sun and Moon should ever doubt, they'd immediately go out.
    William Blake
    English poet (1757 - 1827)
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  • Andrew Jackson If the Union is once severed, the line of separation will grow wider and wider, and the controversies which are now debated and settled in the halls of legislation will then be tried in fields of battle and determined by the sword.
    Andrew Jackson
    American president (7th) (1767 - 1845)
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  • Carter G. Woodson If the white man wants to hold on to it, let him do so; but the Negro, so far as he is able, should develop and carry out a program of his own.
    Carter G. Woodson
    American historian, author and journalist (1875 - 1950)
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  • C. S. Lewis If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Anna Howard Shaw If the women of the United States, with their free schools and all their enlarged liberties, are not superior to women brought up under monarchical forms of government, then there is no good in liberty.
    Anna Howard Shaw
    American activist and leader of the women's suffrage movement (1847 - 1919)
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