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  • Vance Havner If they had a social gospel in the days of the prodigal son, somebody would have given him a bed and a sandwich and he never would have gone home.
    Vance Havner
    American writer
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  • Bruce Springsteen If they had told me I was the janitor and would have to mop up and clean the toilets after the show in order to play, I probably would have done it.
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Carl Levin If they understand, which I believe they really are sensing, that the alternative the Republicans have been offering is to repeal what we've done, to go back to Bush policies - and if you asked the public what would you prefer, Bush economic policies or Obama economic policies, they take and prefer Obama economic policies.
    Carl Levin
    American attorney (1934 - )
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  • Brad Holland If they were starting their careers today, Rockwell and Picasso would probably both be painting on black velvet.
    Brad Holland
    American basketball player (1956 - )
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  • John Bright If this phrase of the ''balance of power'' is to be always an argument for war, the pretext for war will never be wanting, and peace can never be secure.
    John Bright
    British politician (1811 - 1889)
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  • Brendan Coyle If this TV success had come in my twenties and I'd become a heart-throb, I would have been very stupid. I would have got into a lot of situations that I really wished I hadn't.
    Brendan Coyle
    English-Irish actor (1962 - )
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  • Honoré de Balzac If those who are the enemies of innocent amusements had the direction of the world, they would take away the spring, and youth, the former from the year, the latter from human life.
    Honoré de Balzac
    French writer (1799 - 1850)
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  • Francis Quarles If thou desire the love of God and man, be humble, for the proud heart, as it loves none but itself, is beloved of none but itself. Humility enforces where neither virtue, nor strength, nor reason can prevail.
    Francis Quarles
    British poet (1592 - 1644)
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  • William Shakespeare If to do were as easy as to know, what were good to do, chapels had been churches and poor men's cottages princes'palaces.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Alcee Hastings If today is anything like the typical day of the past 3 years, three American soldiers will die in Iraq or Afghanistan, the Taliban will get a little stronger in Afghanistan and the civil war will continue to be enhanced in Iraq.
    Alcee Hastings
    American politician (1936 - )
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  • Beeban Kidron If Twitter is worth seven billion next month, I'm happy for them to be worth six billion and spend a billion making it safer for people, for example.
    Beeban Kidron
    British filmmaker (1961 - )
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  • Algernon Sidney If vice and corruption prevail, liberty cannot subsist; but if virtue have the advantage, arbitrary power cannot be established.
    Algernon Sidney
    English politician (1623 - 1683)
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  • Carlos Slim If Wal-Mart invests a billion dollars and others invest $100 million, Wal-Mart is going to grow more.
    Carlos Slim
    Mexican business magnate, investor and philanthropist (1940 - )
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  • C. Wright Mills If we accept the Greek's definition of the idiot as an altogether private man, then we must conclude that many American citizens are now idiots. And I should not be surprised, although I don't know, if there were some such idiots even in Germany.
    Source: The British Journal of Sociology Structure of Power in America, Vol. 9 (March 1958)
    C. Wright Mills
    American sociologist (1916 - 1962)
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  • Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador If we accept the rule of those who think they are the bosses and lords of Mexico, nothing will change for the people on the bottom.
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  • Octavio Paz If we are a metaphor of the universe, the human couple is the metaphor par excellence, the point of intersection of all forces and the seed of all forms. The couple is time recaptured, the return to the time before time.
    Octavio Paz
    Mexican Poet, Essayist (1914 - 1998)
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  • Alfred P. Sloan If we are all in agreement on the decision - then I propose we postpone further discussion of this matter until our next meeting to give ourselves time to develop disagreement and perhaps gain some understanding of what the decision is all about.
    Alfred P. Sloan
    American businessman (1875 - 1966)
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  • Henry Miller If we are always arriving and departing, it is also true that we are eternally anchored. One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • Malcolm X If we are extremists, then we are not ashamed of it, for the conditions that our people suffer are extreme, and extreme illness can not be cured with moderate medicine
    Malcolm X
    American activist (1925 - 1965)
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  • Ben Stein If we are just specks of dust hit by lightning, if we have no spark of God in us, why not just take whatever we can and devil take the hindmost? I mean, we are fools not to do that if there is no right or wrong.
    Ben Stein
    American professor, writer
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