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  • Alan Dundes Polls are frequently taken to try to tease out or determine likely directions and trends, but once taken, they belong to the past, requiring that new polls be taken.
    Alan Dundes
    American folklorist
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  • C. Everett Koop Polls that have been taken by kindergarten, first- and second-grade teachers indicate that 30 percent of the kids have been deprived in some way so that they are physically unable to keep up with the class.
    C. Everett Koop
    American doctor and pediatric surgeon (1916 - 2013)
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  • Bill Dedman Polygraphs are not allowed as evidence in most U.S. courts, but they're routinely used in police investigations, and the Defense Department relies heavily on them for security screening.
    Bill Dedman
    American journalist (1960 - )
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  • A. A. Milne Pooh said good-bye affectionately to his fourteen pots of honey, and hoped they were fifteen; and he and Rabbit went out into the Forest.
    Source: The House at Pooh Corner (1928) Ch. 3
    A. A. Milne
    English author, writer of the Winnie-the-Pooh books (1882 - 1956)
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  • William Shakespeare Poor and content is rich, and rich enough.
    Source: Othello (1622)
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Ernest Hemingway Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? He thinks I don't know the ten-dollar words. I know them all right. But there are older and simpler and better words, and those are the ones I use.
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • Sidney Madwed Poor is the man who does not know his own intrinsic worth and tends to measure everything by relative value. A man of financial wealth who values himself by his financial net worth is poorer than a poor man who values himself by his intrinsic self worth.
    Sidney Madwed
    American business consultant, lyricist and author
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  • Jean Anouilh Poor little men, poor little cocks! As soon as they're old enough, they swell their plumage to be conquerors. If they only knew that it's enough to be just a little bit wounded and sad in order to obtain everything without fighting for it.
    Jean Anouilh
    French playwright (1910 - 1987)
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  • Bruce Springsteen Poor man wanna be rich,
    rich man wanna be king
    And a king ain't satisfied
    till he rules everything.
    Source: Darkness On The Edge Of Town (1978) Badlands
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Jonathan Swift Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance.
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • Anne Campbell Poorer students take out larger loans and will have to contribute more to the cost of higher education.
    Anne Campbell
    English politician (1940 - )
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  • J. G. Ballard Pop artists deal with the lowly trivia of possessions and equipment that the present generation is lugging along with it on its safari into the future.
    J. G. Ballard
    British author (1930 - 2009)
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  • Bill Williams Pope John Paul, a man of peace and compassion, was one of the most revered leaders of our time.
    Bill Williams
    American actor
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  • Camille Paglia Popular culture is the new Babylon, into which so much art and intellect now flow. It is our imperial sex theater, supreme temple of the western eye. We live in the age of idols. The pagan past, never dead, flames again in our mystic hierarchies of stardom.
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • William Congreve Por blessing ever waits on virtuous deeds, I and though a late, a sure reward succeeds.
    Source: The Mourning Bride (1697) 5, 12
    William Congreve
    British Dramatist (1670 - 1729)
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  • Angela Carter Pornographers are the enemies of women only because our contemporary ideology of pornography does not encompass the possibility of change, as if we were the slaves of history and not its makers. Pornography is a satire on human pretensions.
    Angela Carter
    British author (1940 - 1992)
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  • George Steiner Pornographers subvert this last, vital privacy; they do our imagining for us. They take away the words that were of the night and shout them over the roof-tops, making them hollow.
    George Steiner
    French-born American Critic, Novelist (1929 - 2020)
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  • Robertson Davies Pornography is rather like trying to find out about a Beethoven symphony by having somebody tell you about it and perhaps hum a few bars.
    Robertson Davies
    Canadian novelist and journalist (1913 - 1995)
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  • Gloria Steinem Pornography is the instruction. Rape is the practice, battered women are the practice, and battered children are the practice.
    Gloria Steinem
    American feminist writer (1934 - )
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  • Jean Baudrillard Pornography is the quadraphonics of sex. It adds a third and fourth track to the sexual act. It is the hallucination of detail that rules. Science has already habituated us to this microscopics, this excess of the real in its microscopic detail, this voyeurism of exactitude.
    Jean Baudrillard
    French sociologist and philosopher. (1929 - 2007)
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