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  • Alice Hoffman The original fairy tale was about the youngest sister going into a room in the castle and finding all the bodies of the wives that came before her - she is confronted with truth, thinking about how often we think we know people and we really don't.
    Alice Hoffman
    American novelist (1952 - )
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  • Alice Hoffman The original fairy tale was about the youngest sister going into a room in the castle and finding all the bodies of the wives that came before her - she is confronted with truth, thinking about how often we think we know people and we really don't.
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  • Caroll Spinney The other puppeteers are really good, often when they are singing together, they go left, right, left... But if they are all moving to the left, I'm moving to the right. Big Bird and Oscar, that's okay, because they are individuals anyway.
    Caroll Spinney
    American puppeteer, cartoonist, author and speaker (1933 - 2019)
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  • Mark Twain The Pause; that impressive silence, that eloquent silence, that geometrically progressive silence which often achieves a desired effect where no combination of words, however so felicitous, could accomplish it.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Angela Merkel The people in East Germany have lived through so many changes in the last 15 years like never before in the country, and they did this often with great enthusiasm. But in the West we also have a high degree of transformations.
    Angela Merkel
    German politician and chancellor (1954 - )
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  • Jawaharlal Nehru The person who talks most of his own virtue is often the least virtuous.
    Jawaharlal Nehru
    Indian nationalist and statesman (1889 - 1964)
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  • Ben Jonson The players often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare, that in his writing, whatsoever he penned, he never blotted out a line. My answer hath been, Would he had blotted a thousand.
    The Works of Ben Jonson, Second Folio
    Ben Jonson
    British Dramatist, Poet (1572 - 1637)
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  • Augustus Hare The power of faith will often shine forth the most when the character is naturally weak.
    Augustus Hare
    English writer (1834 - 1903)
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  • Iris Murdoch The priesthood is a marriage. People often start by falling in love, and they go on for years without realizing that love must change into some other love which is so unlike it that it can hardly be recognized as love at all.
    Iris Murdoch
    Anglo-Irish novelist and philosopher (1919 - 1999)
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  • Boris Vian The problem is the following, black music is increasing encumbered by white elements, often pleasant but always superfluous, easily and advantageously replaced with black elements.
    Boris Vian
    French writer, poet and engineer (1920 - 1959)
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  • Alan Dershowitz The prosecution wants to make sure the process by which the evidence was obtained is not truthfully presented, because, as often as not, that process will raise questions.
    Alan Dershowitz
    American lawyer and author (1938 - )
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  • Henry Fielding The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by the tenderness of the best of hearts.
    Henry Fielding
    English writer (1707 - 1754)
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  • George F. Will The pursuit of perfection often impedes improvement.
    George F. Will
    American columnist (1941 - )
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  • Count Axel Gustafsson Oxenstierna The quantity of books in a person's library, is often a cloud of witnesses to the ignorance of the owner.
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  • Elaine Dundy The question actors most often get asked is how they can bear saying the same things over and over again night after night, but God knows the answer to that is, don’t we all anyway; might as well get paid for it.
    The Dud Avocado (1958) I, 8
    Elaine Dundy
    American writer, actress and journalist (1921 - 2008)
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  • Carl Bernstein The reality is that the media are probably the most powerful of all our institutions today and they, or rather we, too often are squandering our power and ignoring our obligations. The consequence of our abdication of responsibility is the ugly spectacle of idiot culture!
    Carl Bernstein
    American investigative journalist and author (1944 - )
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  • Thomas B. Macaulay The reluctant obedience of distant provinces generally costs more than it [The Territory] is worth. Empires which branch out widely are often more flourishing for a little timely pruning.
    Thomas B. Macaulay
    American essayist and historian (1800 - 1859)
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  • Benjamin Netanyahu The rules of engagement have become so rigid that governments often straightjacket themselves in the face of unambiguous aggression.
    Benjamin Netanyahu
    Israeli politician (2009 - )
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  • Bill Dedman The scientific effort to inform the public about landslide risks often runs head-on into powerful economic interests.
    Bill Dedman
    American journalist (1960 - )
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  • Berlie Doherty The sea was at the bottom of my road, and I seemed to spend my childhood in it or on it, hearing, tasting, smelling it. Now, still, I need to be near water as often as possible.
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