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  • Michael Ondaatje In Canada pianos needed water. You opened up the back and left a full glass of water, and a month later the glass would be empty. Her father had told her about the dwarfs who drank only at pianos, never in bars.
    Source: De Engelse patient (2011) 67
    Michael Ondaatje
    Sri Lankan-born Canadian poet, fiction writer (1943 - )
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  • Roger Allen In case you're worried about what's going to become of the younger generation, it's going to grow up and start worrying about the younger generation.
    Roger Allen
     
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  • Socrates In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.
    Socrates
    Greek philosopher (469 - 399)
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  • Carol Bellamy In choosing global corporate partners UNICEF emphasises compatibility with our core values and looks to build alliances that advance our mission of ensuring the health, education, equality and protection for all the world's children.
    Carol Bellamy
    American nonprofit executive (1942 - )
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  • Bob Beauprez In choosing Paul Ryan, Mitt Romney made a fantastic choice and a bold statement to the American people.
    Bob Beauprez
    American politician and member (1948 - )
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  • Washington Irving In civilized life, where the happiness and indeed almost the existence of man, depends on the opinion of his fellow men. He is constantly acting a studied part.
    Washington Irving
    American writer (1783 - 1859)
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  • Bernie Sanders In cold weather states like Vermont, where the weather can get to 20 below zero, home heating assistance is critically important. In fact, it is a life and death issue.
    Bernie Sanders
    American politician (1941 - )
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  • Cam Newton In college, you had to worry about that math class or this exam that's coming up on Tuesday, but not in the professionals. You eat, sleep, and do everything related to your craft - and your craft is football. You can be at it from sunup to sundown.
    Cam Newton
    American football player (1989 - )
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  • Alfred Marshall In common use almost every word has many shades of meaning, and therefore needs to be interpreted by the context.
    Alfred Marshall
    British economist (1842 - 1924)
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  • Alfred Marshall In common use almost every word has many shades of meaning, and therefore needs to be interpreted by the context.
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  • Albert Bushnell Hart In comparison with other men of their time, the Americans were distinguished by the possession of new political and social ideas, which were destined to be the foundation of the American commonwealth.
    Albert Bushnell Hart
    American historian, writer, and editor (1854 - 1943)
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  • George Herbert In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge.
    George Herbert
    English poet (1593 - 1633)
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  • Blake Farenthold In cutting government, we cut a huge variety of programs, a lot of which I would have liked to see increase, and a lot of which I'd like to see decreased more.
    Blake Farenthold
    American politician and lobbyist (1961 - )
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  • Augustus William Hare In darkness there is no choice. It is light that enables us to see the difference between things; and it is Christ that gives us light.
    Augustus William Hare
    British writer (1792 - 1834)
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  • Barack Obama In December, I agreed to extend the tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans because it was the only way I could prevent a tax hike on middle-class Americans. But we cannot afford $1 trillion worth of tax cuts for every millionaire and billionaire in our society. We can't afford it. And I refuse to renew them again.
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Albert Camus In default of inexhaustible happiness, eternal suffering would at least give us a destiny. But we do not even have that consolation, and our worst agonies come to an end one day.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Audre Lorde In discussions around the hiring and firing of Black faculty at universities, the charge is frequently heard that Black women are more easily hired than are Black men.
    Audre Lorde
    American writer, feminist, womanist, librarian, and civil (1934 - 1992)
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  • Arthur Ochs Sulzberger In dread fear of sentimentality, another thing true is not said-that for its staff the paper is a source of pride and, I do believe, an object of affection and-yes, love.
    Arthur Ochs Sulzberger
    American journalist
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  • Blaise Pascal In each action we must look beyond the action at our past, present, and future state, and at others whom it affects, and see the relations of all those things. And then we shall be very cautious.
    Source: Pensees
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Robert Louis Stevenson In each of us, two natures are at war – the good and the evil. All our lives the fight goes on between them, and one of them must conquer. But in our own hands lies the power to choose – what we want most to be we are.
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    Scottish writer and poet (1850 - 1894)
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