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  • Brad Bird Well what's funny is, again, people say they believed what was going on, but again, Bob's hands are about three times bigger than his feet. So these are very caricatured.
    Brad Bird
    American animator, director and screenwriter (1957 - )
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  • Barney Frank Well, I don't give it out very often, but I reject the notion that you have to be a practitioner to give good advice.
    Barney Frank
    American politician (1940 - )
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  • Benjamin Netanyahu Well, this is an unfortunate part of the UN institution. It's the - the theater of the absurd. It doesn't only cast Israel as the villain; it often casts real villains in leading roles: Gadhafi's Libya chaired the UN Commission on Human Rights; Saddam's Iraq headed the UN Committee on Disarmament.
    Benjamin Netanyahu
    Israeli politician (2009 - )
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes What a comfort a dull but kindly person is, to be sure, at times! A ground-glass shade over a gas-lamp does not bring more solace to our dazzled eyes than such a one to our minds.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Adlai Stevenson II What do we mean by patriotism in the context of our times? I venture to suggest that what we mean is a sense of national responsibility... a patriotism which is not short, frenzied outbursts of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.
    Adlai Stevenson II
    American politician and governor (1900 - 1965)
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  • Henry David Thoreau What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Bob Parsons What I learned from Rockefeller that's off-the-hook important is: You need to know exactly where you stand in a business at all times. Measure everything, because everything that is measured and watched improves.
    Bob Parsons
    American entrepreneur, billionaire, and philanthropist (1950 - )
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  • Lewis Carroll What I tell you three times is true.
    Lewis Carroll
    British Writer, Mathematician (1832 - 1898)
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  • Henry David Thoreau What is a country without rabbits and partridges? They are among the most simple and indigenous animal products; ancient and venerable families known to antiquity as to modern times; of the very hue and substance of Nature, nearest allied to leaves and to the ground.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Benjamin Disraeli What is earnest is not always true; on the contrary, error is often more earnest than truth.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg What is the good of drawing conclusions from experience? I don't deny we sometimes draw the right conclusions, but don't we just as often draw the wrong ones?
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Marina Tsvetaeva What is the main thing in love? to know and to hide. To know about the one you love and to hide that you love. At times the hiding (shame) overpowers the knowing (passion). The passion for the hidden - the passion for the revealed.
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  • Bell Hooks What nationalist educators often fail to recognize is that merely being taught by teachers who are black has not and will not solve the problem if the teachers have been socialized to internalize racist thinking. - From (2003) Rock My Soul
    Bell Hooks
    American author, professor, feminist (born G.J.Watkins) (1952 - 2021)
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  • Bill Delahunt What passes for real debate in Washington often seems more like an echo chamber, with politicians talking at politicians.
    Bill Delahunt
    American lawyer and politician (1941 - )
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Tim O'Brien What sticks to memory, often, are those odd little fragments that have no beginning and no end.
    De last die ze droegen (1990) 34
    Tim O'Brien
    American novelist (1946 - )
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  • T. S. Eliot What we call the beginning is often the end and to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.
    T. S. Eliot
    British essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic (1888 - 1965)
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  • William Shakespeare What we determine we often break. Purpose is but the slave to memory.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Ronald Reagan What we have found in this country, and maybe we're more aware of it now, is one problem that we've had, even in the best of times, and that is the people who are sleeping on the grates, the homeless, you might say, by choice.
    Ronald Reagan
    American politician and actor (1911 - 2004)
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  • Sydney Smith Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousand times worse than nothing.
    Sydney Smith
    English writer and cleric (1856 - 1934)
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