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  • Christopher Morley One of the odd things about being in a hurry is that it seems so fiercely important when you yourself are the hurrier and so comically ludicrous when it is someone else.
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    Christopher Morley
    American Novelist, Journalist, Poet (1890 - 1957)
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  • Margaret Mead One of the oldest human needs is having someone wonder where you are when you don't come home at night.
    Margaret Mead
    American cultural anthropologist (1901 - 1978)
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  • Malcolm Muggeridge One of the peculiar sins of the twentieth century which we've developed to a very high level is the sin of credulity. It has been said that when human beings stop believing in God they believe in nothing. The truth is much worse: they believe in anything.
    Malcolm Muggeridge
    British Broadcaster (1903 - 1990)
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  • Plato One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
    Plato
    Greek philosopher (427 - 347)
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  • Bill Condon One of the people that became a major source was Clarence Tripp who worked with Kinsey.
    Bill Condon
    American director and screenwriter (1955 - )
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  • Bruce Sterling One of the points about distractions is that everything that they do is destabilizing.
    Bruce Sterling
    American science fiction author (1954 - )
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  • John Ruskin One of the prevailing sources of misery and crime is in the generally accepted assumption, that because things have been wrong a long time, it is impossible they will ever be right.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Bill Sienkiewicz One of the problems I have with a lot of movies these days is that everything is too well lit. In the world of digital creations there is a tendency to show too much.
    Bill Sienkiewicz
    American artist (1958 - )
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  • Blake Farenthold One of the problems the Republican Party has had is that we're too fast to compromise. You can compromise on the little stuff, but you can't compromise on your core principles.
    Blake Farenthold
    American politician and lobbyist (1961 - )
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  • Salman Rushdie One of the problems with defending free speech is you often have to defend people that you find to be outrageous and unpleasant and disgusting.
    Salman Rushdie
    Engels writer (1947 - )
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  • Bobby Scott One of the problems with even suggesting that purpose of a Federal law is for law enforcement officers to assist in protecting the public outside their jurisdictions is that it may give them encouragement or even a sense of obligation to do so.
    Bobby Scott
    American politician (1947 - )
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  • Josh Billings One of the rarest things that a man ever does, is to do the best he can.
    Josh Billings
    American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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  • Bode Miller One of the really important things about the Olympics is, to enjoy yourself, you have to accept that it's different and feed off the enthusiasm of everyone and the inspiration and hopefully that will elevate your performance.
    Bode Miller
    American former World Cup alpine ski racer (1977 - )
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  • Beyonce Knowles One of the reasons I connect to the Super Bowl is that I approach my shows like an athlete.
    Beyonce Knowles
    American singer and actress (1981 - )
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  • Al Sharpton One of the reasons I get so much joy out of my own children's childhoods is that I'm having my first childhood myself.
    Al Sharpton
    American civil rights activist, Baptist minister and talk show host (1954 - )
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  • Callie Khouri One of the reasons I wanted to do a show about Nashville in Nashville was because when I lived here, the hardest thing to go out and hear was country music. Country was taking place inside the studio and it was an export.
    Callie Khouri
    American film and television (1957 - )
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  • Maxwell Maltz One of the reasons it has seemed so difficult for a person to change his habits, his personality, or his way of life, has been that heretofore nearly all efforts at change have been directed to the circumference of the self, so to speak, rather than to the center.
    Maxwell Maltz
    American surgeon and author (1889 - 1975)
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  • John W. Gardner One of the reasons mature people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.
    John W. Gardner
    American Educator, Social Activist (1912 - 2002)
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  • Cal Thomas One of the reasons people hate politics is that truth is rarely a politician's objective. Election and power are.
    Cal Thomas
    American columnist and author (1942 - )
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  • Ben Carson One of the reasons surgeons have so much trouble separating Siamese twins is that nobody gets to do many of them. On the table, the anatomy is so different from normal, that you're constantly trying to figure out, 'Can I cut this? Does this wire lead to what?' It's like trying to defuse a bomb.
    Ben Carson
    American politician, and author (1951 - )
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