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  • Bill Goldberg Lets be honest: I'm an athlete, not an entertainer as much. So as an athlete, I am a guy who likes the physical confrontation of the football field. I like playing nose-guard; I like having two 350 pound guys trying to rip my head off.
    Bill Goldberg
    American professional wrestler and actor (1966 - )
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  • Barbara Kingsolver Libraries are the one American institution you shouldn't rip off.
    Animal Dreams
    Barbara Kingsolver
    American novelist, essayist and poet (1955 - )
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  • Saul Alinsky Life is a corrupting process from the time a child learns to play his mother off against his father in the politics of when to go to bed; he who fears corruption fears life.
    Saul Alinsky
    American community organizer and writer (1909 - 1972)
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  • Carl Sandburg Life is like an onion. You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.
    Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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  • Albert Einstein Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving .
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Claude D. Pepper Life is like riding a bicycle. You don't fall off unless you stop peddling.
    Claude D. Pepper
    American politician of the Democratic Party (1900 - 1989)
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  • Bill Gates Life is not divided into semesters. You don't get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you find yourself.
    Bill Gates
    American business magnate, investor, author and philanthropist (1955 - )
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  • Dag Hammarskjöld Life yields only to the conqueror. Never accept what can be gained by giving in. You will be living off stolen goods, and your muscles will atrophy.
    Dag Hammarskjöld
    Swedish diplomat (1905 - 1961)
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  • Franz Kafka Life's splendor forever lies in wait about each one of us in all its fullness, but veiled from view, deep down, invisible, far off. It is there, though, not hostile, not reluctant, not deaf. If you summon it by the right word, by its right name, it will come.
    Franz Kafka
    Chech German-speaking writer (1883 - 1924)
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  • Boris Pasternak Like a beast in a pen, I'm cut off
    From my friends, freedom, the Sun.
    But the hunters are gaining ground;
    I've nowhere else to run.
    Selected Poems (1983)
    Boris Pasternak
    Russian writer (1890 - 1960)
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  • Buzz Aldrin Like actors and writers who are on and off again in terms of employment, I had a very unstructured life.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • Beau Willimon Like any young person who gets into a political campaign, I joined out of a highfalutin' desire to change the world. But you start to see the sort of tactics people use. You start to see politics not only in the macro but in the micro of the campaign itself. Some people get turned off by this side of it. Other people are drawn to it.
    Beau Willimon
    American playwright and screenwriter (1977 - )
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  • Philip Roth Literature isn't a moral beauty contest. Its power arises from the authority and audacity with which the impersonation is pulled off; the belief it inspires is what counts.
    Philip Roth
    American Novelist (1933 - 2018)
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  • Ray Bradbury Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down
    Ray Bradbury
    American science-fiction writer (1920 - 2012)
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  • Stephen Leacock Lord Ronald said nothing; he flung himself from the room, flung himself upon his horse and rode madly off in all directions.
    Stephen Leacock
    Canadian humorist and economist (1869 - 1944)
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  • Friedrich von Schiller Lose not yourself in a far off time, seize the moment that is thine.
    Friedrich von Schiller
    German poet and playwright (1759 - 1805)
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  • Bobby Jindal Louisiana loses 30 miles a year off our coast. We lost 100 miles last year off our coast thanks to Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. We have lost a size of land equivalent to the entire state of Rhode Island.
    Bobby Jindal
    American politician (1971 - )
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  • Natalie Clifford Barney Lovers should also have their days off.
    Natalie Clifford Barney
    American-born French author (1876 - 1972)
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  • Bob Gunton Lyndon Johnson may have escalated the war, but when I was drafted and shipped off to Vietnam, the signature on my orders was Nixon's.
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  • Elizabeth Gaskell Madam your wife and I didn't hit it off the only time I ever saw her. I won't say she was silly, but I think one of us was silly, and it wasn't me.
    Elizabeth Gaskell
    British writer (1810 - 1865)
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