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  • Judith Viorst Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.
    Judith Viorst
    American writer and journalist (1931 - )
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  • Louis de Bernieres Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident.
    Kapitein Corelli's mandoline (1994)
    Louis de Bernieres
    British novelist (1954 - )
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  • Mignon McLaughlin Love looks forward, hate looks back, anxiety has eyes all over its head.
    The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981)
    Mignon McLaughlin
    American writer, editor (1913 - 1983)
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  • Buffalo Bill Major North has had for years complete power over these Indians and can do more with them than any man living.
    The Life of Hon. William F. Cody, Known as Buffalo Bill, the Famous Hunter, Scout, and Guide: An Autobiography (1978 edition), U of Nebraska Press
    Buffalo Bill
    American soldier, bison hunter, and showman (1846 - 1917)
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  • Ezra Pound Man is an over-complicated organism. If he is doomed to extinction he will die out for want of simplicity.
    Ezra Pound
    American poet (1885 - 1972)
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  • Jacob Bronowski Man masters nature not by force but by understanding. This is why science has succeeded where magic failed: because it has looked for no spell to cast over nature.
    Jacob Bronowski
    British Scientist, Author (1908 - 1974)
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  • Winston Churchill Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Alva Myrdal Many countries persecute their own citizens and intern them in prisons or concentration camps. Oppression is becoming more and more a part of the systems.
    Alva Myrdal
    Swedish sociologist, diplomat and politician (1902 - 1986)
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  • B. C. Forbes Many of the most successful men I have known have never grown up. They have retained bubbling-over boyishness. They have relished wit, they have indulged in humor. They have not allowed dignity to depress them into moroseness. Youthfulnesss of spirit is the twin brother of optimism, and optimism is the stuff of which American business success is fashioned. Resist growing up!
    B. C. Forbes
    American Publisher (1880 - 1954)
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  • Carl Safina Many people believe the whole catastrophe is the oil we spill, but that gets diluted and eventually disarmed over time. In fact, the oil we don't spill, the oil we collect, refine and use, produces CO2 and other gases that don't get diluted.
    Carl Safina
    American ecologist and author (1955 - )
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  • Siri Hustvedt Many writers over the centuries simply do not have the reputations they deserve because they were female, and that is an act of suppression.
    Siri Hustvedt
    American novelist and essayist (1955 - )
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  • Bill Bailey Marijuana? It's harmless really, unless you fashion it into a club and beat somebody over the head with it.
    'Beards' (track 12) 5:29
    Bewilderness: New York (audio CD, 2002)
    Bill Bailey
    English comedian, musician and actor (1965 - )
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  • Buzz Aldrin Mars has been flown by, orbited, smacked into, radar inspected, and rocketed onto, as well as bounced upon, rolled over, shoveled, drilled into, baked, and even laser blasted.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • Anthony Trollope Marvelous is the power which can be exercised, almost unconsciously, over a company, or an individual, or even upon a crowd by one person gifted with good temper, good digestion, good intellects, and good looks.
    Anthony Trollope
    British writer (1815 - 1882)
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  • Caroline Knapp Mastery over the body - its impulses, its needs, its size - is paramount; to lose control is to risk beauty, and to risk beauty is to risk desirability, and to risk desirability is to risk entitlement to sexuality and love and self-esteem.
    Caroline Knapp
    American writer and columnist
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  • Arthur Erickson Materialism has never been so ominous as now in North America, as management takes over.
    Arthur Erickson
    Canadian architect and urban (1924 - 2009)
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  • Samuel Johnson Men know that women are an over-match for them, and therefore they choose the weakest or most ignorant. If they did not think so, they never could be afraid of women knowing as much as themselves.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Winston Churchill Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Men over forty are no judges of a book written in a new spirit.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Emilie Cady Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains
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