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  • Kingsley Amis Growing older, I have lost the need to be political, which means, in this country, the need to be left. I am driven into grudging toleration of the Conservative Party because it is the party of non-politics, of resistance to politics.
    Kingsley Amis
    English novelist, poet, critic, and teacher (1922 - 1995)
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  • Bill Gurley Having an investor on your board of directors who is naive about public markets or finds them complex or scary is non-optimal.
    Bill Gurley
    American businessman (1966 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson He who would be a man must therefore be a non-conformist.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Lily Tomlin I always wanted to be somebody, but I should have been more specific.
    Lily Tomlin
    American Comedienne (1939 - )
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  • Arthur Hays Sulzberger I am a non Zionist because the Jew, in seeking a homeland of his own, seems to me to be giving up something of infinitely greater value of the world.
    Arthur Hays Sulzberger
    American newspaper publisher (1891 - 1968)
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  • Alain de Botton I am conscious of trying to stretch the boundaries of non-fiction writing. It's always surprised me how little attention many non-fiction writers pay to the formal aspects of their work.
    Alain de Botton
    Swiss-born British author (1969 - )
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  • Mahatma Gandhi I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • Lily Tomlin I have always wanted to be somebody, but I see now I should have been more specific.
    Lily Tomlin
    American Comedienne (1939 - )
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  • David Herbert Lawrence I hold that the parentheses are by far the most important parts of a non-business letter.
    David Herbert Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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  • Bradley A. Smith If candidates spend money on ads and other political speech and their opponents are rewarded with government handouts to attack them, that chills speech and is unconstitutional. Non-participating candidates certainly don't volunteer to allow their opponents to receive taxpayer subsidies to bash them.
    Bradley A. Smith
    American law professor (1958 - )
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  • Bonnie McKee If I know I will be working with someone and they are not keen with writing with a girl, I like to be non-threatening and cool so they will trust me. It's a thought process of who work and how I want to present myself.
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  • Bill Vaughan If there is anything the nonconformist hates worse than a conformist it's another nonconformist who does not conform to the prevailing standards of non-conformity.
    Bill Vaughan
    American columnist and author (1915 - 1977)
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  • Benjamin N. Cardozo Immunities that are valid as against the federal government by force of the specific pledges of particular amendments have been found to be implicit in the concept of ordered liberty, and thus, through the Fourteenth Amendment, become valid as against the states.
    Palko v. Connecticut
    Benjamin N. Cardozo
    American lawyer and jurist (1870 - 1938)
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  • Bjork In '96, I was in a very specific place with my own music - I was only listening to beats. You would come to my house, and I would just play beats all day.
    Bjork
    Icelandic singer, songwriter and actress (1965 - )
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  • Baba Kalyani In 2014, we have some new activities and new order wins in the non-automotive space.
    Baba Kalyani
    Indian businessman (1949 - )
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  • Bernie Sanders In any democratic, civilized - even non-democratic nations, if you are a nation, it means to say that in our case, if there's a hurricane in Louisiana, the people of Vermont are there for them. If there's a tornado in the Midwest, we are there for them. If there's flooding in the East Coast, the people in California are there for us.
    Bernie Sanders
    American politician (1941 - )
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  • Edmund Burke In effect, to follow, not to force the public inclination; to give a direction, a form, a technical dress, and a specific sanction, to the general sense of the community, is the true end of legislature.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • Carlos Ghosn In most companies people make a specific contribution to the company in their function. But it is not expressed in terms of profit, only in terms of performing their function better.
    Carlos Ghosn
    Brazilian-born businessman (1954 - )
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  • Albert Low Instead of suppressing conflicts, specific channels could be created to make this conflict explicit, and specific methods could be set up by which the conflict is resolved.
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  • Adolf Loos It does not do to use it with forms whose origin is intimately bound up with a specific material simply because no technical difficulties stand in the way.
    Adolf Loos
    Austrian and Czechoslovak architect (1870 - 1933)
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