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  • Beryl Markham In Africa people learn to serve each other. They live on credit balances of little favors that they give and may, one day, ask to have returned.
    Beryl Markham
    English-born Kenyan aviator, racehorse trainer and author (1902 - 1986)
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  • Barack Obama In Africa, you often see that the difference between a village where everybody eats and a village where people starve is government. One has a functioning government, and the other does not. Which is why it bothers me when I hear people say that government is the enemy. They don't understand its fundamental role.
    Independent Magazine (March 2007)
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • John Kenneth Galbraith In all life one should comfort the afflicted, but verily, also, one should afflict the comfortable, and especially when they are comfortably, contentedly, even happily wrong.
    John Kenneth Galbraith
    American economist (1908 - 2006)
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  • Booker T. Washington In all things that are purely social we can be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress.
    Up From Slavery (1901) Ch. XIV: The Atlanta Exposition Address
    Booker T. Washington
    American Black Leader and Educator (1856 - 1915)
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  • Iris Murdoch In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way.
    Iris Murdoch
    Anglo-Irish novelist and philosopher (1919 - 1999)
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  • Bruce Springsteen In America everything's about who's number one today.
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson In America the geography is sublime, but the men are not; the inventions are excellent, but the inventors one is sometimes ashamed of.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Bruno Tonioli In America they like my spicy TV alter ego, probably because there were a lot of Italians and Hispanics in the country, but the real L.A. life is a hard-working one.
    Bruno Tonioli
    Italian choreographer and dancer (1955 - )
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  • Adlai Stevenson II In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
    Adlai Stevenson II
    American politician and governor (1900 - 1965)
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  • Susan Sontag In America, the photographer is not simply the person who records the past, but the one who invents it.
    Susan Sontag
    American writer, filmmaker, teacher, and political activist (1933 - 2004)
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  • Edward P. Tryon In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
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  • Bing Gordon In any business that grows big on one business model, transitions can throw everything in the air.
    Bing Gordon
    American video game executive and technology venture capitalist
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  • Blanche Lincoln In Arkansas alone, approximately three quarters of a million people are at risk of going hungry, and one in four children does not get enough to eat, so my goal is to bring awareness to this tragic issue.
    Blanche Lincoln
    American politician and lawyer (1960 - )
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  • Willem De Kooning In art, one idea is as good as another. If one takes the idea of trembling, for instance, all of a sudden most art starts to tremble. Michelangelo starts to tremble. El Greco starts to tremble. All the Impressionists start to tremble.
    Willem De Kooning
    Dutch-American painter (1904 - 1997)
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  • Bruce Nauman In art, the only one who really knows whether what you've done is honest is the artist.
    Bruce Nauman
    American artist (1941 - )
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  • Carlo Rubbia In big science, the role of the individual scientist must be carefully preserved. So is the one of original ideas and of contributions.
    Carlo Rubbia
    Italian physicist and inventor (1934 - )
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  • Nigel Farage In Britain, what we've done is say to 485 million people, 'You can all come, every one of you. You're unemployed? You've got a criminal record? Please come. You've got 19 children? Please come.' We've lost any sense of perspective on this.
    Nigel Farage
    British politician, activist, political commentator and broadcaster (1964 - )
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  • Geoffrey F. Fisher In cities no one is quiet but many are lonely; in the country, people are quiet but few are lonely.
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  • Breyten Breytenbach In dancing with the enemy one follows his steps even if counting under one's breath.
    Breyten Breytenbach
    South African writer and painter (1939 - )
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  • Dean William R. Inge In dealing with Englishmen you can be sure of one thing only, that the logical solution will not be adopted.
    Dean William R. Inge
    Dean of St Paul's, London (1860 - 1954)
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