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  • Bernhard von Bulow We desire to throw no one into the shade [in East Asia], but we also demand our own place in the sun.
    Speech in Reichstag, 6 December 1897
    Bernhard von Bulow
    German diplomat and politician (1849 - 1929)
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  • Lyndon B. Johnson We did not choose to be the guardians of the gate, but there is no one else.
    Lyndon B. Johnson
    American president (1908 - 1973)
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  • Jose Ortega Y Gasset We distinguish the excellent man from the common man by saying that the former is the one who makes great demands on himself, and the latter who makes no demands on himself.
    Jose Ortega Y Gasset
    Spanish writer and philosopher (1883 - 1955)
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  • Louise Erdrich We do know that no one gets wise enough to really understand the heart of another, though it is the task of our life to try.
    Louise Erdrich
    American author (1954 - )
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  • Malcolm X We do not condemn the preachers as an individual but we condemn what they teach. We urge that the preachers teach the truth, to teach our people the one important guiding rule of conduct - unity of purpose.
    Malcolm X
    American activist (1925 - 1965)
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  • Henry Miller We do not talk - we bludgeon one another with facts and theories gleaned from cursory readings of newspapers, magazines and digests.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • Calvin Coolidge We draw our Presidents from the people. It is a wholesome thing for them to return to the people. I came from them. I wish to be one of them again.
    Calvin Coolidge says (1972)
    Calvin Coolidge
    American president (1872 - 1933)
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  • George Bernard Shaw We educate one another; and we cannot do this if half of us consider the other half not good enough to talk to.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Carl Rowan We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the ;status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.
    Carl Rowan
    American government official, journalist and author (1925 - 2000)
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  • Barry Gibb We enjoy change and freshness, and disco was only one area we've delved into.
    Barry Gibb
    British-American musician and singer-songwriter (1946 - )
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  • Eric Hoffer We find it hard to apply the knowledge of ourselves to our judgment of others. The fact that we are never of one kind, that we never love without reservations and never hate with all our being cannot prevent us from seeing others as wholly black or white.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Antoinette Brown Blackwell We fully believed, so soon as we saw that woman's suffrage was right, every one would soon see the same thing, and that in a year or two, at farthest, it would be granted.
    Antoinette Brown Blackwell
    American Protestant minister (1825 - 1921)
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  • Charles Lamb We gain nothing by being with such as ourselves. We encourage one another in mediocrity. I am always longing to be with men more excellent than myself.
    Charles Lamb
    English essayist (1775 - 1834)
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  • Jim Rohn We generally change ourselves for one of two reasons: inspiration or desperation.
    Jim Rohn
    American entrepreneur, author and motivational speaker (1930 - 2009)
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  • Zelda Fitzgerald We grew up founding our dreams on the infinite promise of American advertising. I still believe that one can learn to play the piano by mail and that mud will give you a perfect complexion.
    Zelda Fitzgerald
    American novelist, socialite, and painter (1900 - 1948)
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  • Winston Churchill We have a lot of anxieties, and one cancels out another very often.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Barbara Jordan We have a positive vision of the future founded on the belief that the gap between the promise and reality of America can one day be finally closed. We believe that.
    Speaking the truth with eloquent thunder
    Barbara Jordan
    American lawyer, educator and politician (1936 - 1996)
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  • Bonnie Jo Campbell We have a shotgun we inherited from my father-in-law, a paranoid Englishman living in Texas. I have a .22 Marlin rifle, similar to the one Annie Oakley had, and my husband has a .357 Magnum pistol. All those are locked up tight, of course. We have a couple of pellet guns that get more use than the real guns.
    Bonnie Jo Campbell
    American writer
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  • Brit Hume We have a society in which one of the greatest things you can do is a platform to see victim status, and one of the qualifications for that is that you have these exquisitely tender feelings about things and sensibilities which are easily offended.
    Brit Hume
    American journalist and political commentator (1943 - )
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  • Alvar Aalto We have almost a city has probably two or three hundred committees. Every committee is dealing with just one problem and has nothing to do with the other problems.
    Alvar Aalto
    Finnish architect and designer (1898 - 1976)
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