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  • Calvin Trillin What campaigns are for is weeding out the people who, for one way or another, weren't making it for the long haul.
    Calvin Trillin
    American journalist, humorist, food writer and poet (1935 - )
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  • Bill Veeck What can I do, I asked myself, that is so spectacular that no one will be able to say he had seen it before? The answer was perfectly obvious. I would send a midget up to bat.
    Bill Veeck
    American Major League Baseball franchise owner and promoter (1914 - )
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  • Ben Parr What can we learn from the battle between data and design? What can we learn from the relationship between Google and Apple? Clearly no one school of thought is right: Apple and Google are both wildly successful and profitable companies that changed the world.
    Ben Parr
    American journalist, author, venture capitalist (1985 - )
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  • Hermann Hesse What constitutes a real, live human being is more of a mystery than ever these days, and men - each one of whom is a valuable, unique experiment on the part of nature - are shot down wholesale.
    Hermann Hesse
    German-Swiss writer, poet and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1946) (1877 - 1962)
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  • John Ruskin What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second, their imagination, and third, their industry.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Mark Twain What do we call love, hate, charity, revenge, humanity, forgiveness? Different results of the master impulse, the necessity of securing one's self-approval.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • O. Henry What else can you expect from a town that's shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?
    O. Henry
    American short story writer, pen name of William S. Porter (1862 - 1910)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes What I call a good patient is one who, having found a good physician, sticks to him till he dies.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Adam Arkin What I had to say was, in general, I'm not really a fan of any one genre of any kind of film.
    Adam Arkin
    American actor (1956 - )
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  • Brendan Gleeson What I voice, I voice though my art, if that's not too vainglorious a word. But I don't think it is.
    Brendan Gleeson
    Irish actor and film director (1955 - )
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  • Alma Guillermoprieto What I wonder is what would happen in California, say, if all the Mexicans left from one day to the next?
    Alma Guillermoprieto
    Mexican journalist
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  • Carrie Fisher What I wrote all the time when I was a kid - I don't want to call it 'poetry,' because it wasn't poetry. I was not that kind of a writer. I was a rhymer. I was a fan of Dorothy Parker's, so maybe I wrote poetry to that extent, but my main focus was the humor of it, and word construction, and the slant. Your words, it's a very powerful experience.
    Carrie Fisher
    American actress, writer and comedienne (1956 - 2016)
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  • Bill Gates What if Columbus had been told, Chris, baby, don't go now. Wait until we've solved our number-one priorities - war and famine; poverty and crime; pollution and disease; illiteracy and racial hatred....
    Bill Gates
    American business magnate, investor, author and philanthropist (1955 - )
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  • Anish Kapoor What interests me is the sense of the darkness that we carry within us, the darkness that's akin to one of the principal subjects of the sublime - terror.
    Anish Kapoor
    British Indian sculptor (1954 - )
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  • Ebenezer Elliott What is a communist? One who hath yearnings
    For equal division of unequal earnings.
    Gedicht: Epigram
    Ebenezer Elliott
    British poet (1781 - 1849)
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  • E. Elliott What is a communist? One who hath yearnings for equal division of unequal earnings.
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  • William Blake What is a wife and what is a harlot? What is a church and what is a theatre? are they two and not one? Can they exist separate? Are not religion and politics the same thing? Brotherhood is religion. O demonstrations of reason dividing families in cruelty and pride!
    William Blake
    English poet (1757 - 1827)
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  • Carlisle Floyd What is American music? The most satisfying answer I've come across is that it was a kind of natural comfort with the vernacular which is diverse and regional; it's not one particular set of sounds.
    Carlisle Floyd
    American opera composer
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  • Barbra Streisand What is exciting is not for one person to be stronger than the other... but for two people to have met their match and yet they are equally as stubborn, as obstinate, as passionate, as crazy as the other.
    Barbra Streisand
    American singer, songwriter, actress, and filmmaker (1942 - )
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  • Lucretius What is food to one man is bitter poison to others.
    Lucretius
    Roman poet and philosopher (95 - 55)
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