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  • Herbert Hoover In America today, we are nearer a final triumph over poverty than is any other land.
    Herbert Hoover
    American engineer, businessman and politician (1874 - 1964)
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  • Gore Vidal In America, the race goes to the loud, the solemn, the hustler. If you think you're a great writer, you must say that you are.
    Gore Vidal
    American writer and criticus (1925 - 2012)
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  • Ben Katchor In America, there's a very long tradition of a comic strip that comes in newspapers, which is not true all over the world. To sell papers, they put color comics in.
    Ben Katchor
    American cartoonist and illustrator (1951 - )
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  • Andrei Sakharov In and after 1964 when I began to concern myself with the biological issues, and particularly from 1967 onwards, the extent of the problems over which I felt uneasy increased to such a point that in 1968 I felt a compelling urge to make my views public.
    Andrei Sakharov
    Russian nuclear physicist, dissident and activist (1921 - 1989)
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  • John Kenneth Galbraith In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone.
    John Kenneth Galbraith
    American economist (1908 - 2006)
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  • Bun E. Carlos In April of 1976, Epic Records was flying out to sign us when I tripped over a light case after a gig and broke my arm. We called the next morning and said, 'Don't go to the airport - Bun E. broke his arm.' They thought Mercury or someone was trying to sign us, so they offered us, like, $25,000 more on top of the deal.
    Bun E. Carlos
    American drummer (1950 - )
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  • John Kenneth Galbraith In economics, hope and faith coexist with great scientific pretension and also a deep desire for respectability.
    John Kenneth Galbraith
    American economist (1908 - 2006)
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  • Francis Bacon In every great time there is some one idea at work which is more powerful than any other, and which shapes the events of the time and determines their ultimate issues.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Walter Bagehot In every particular state of the world, those nations which are strongest tend to prevail over the others; and in certain marked peculiarities the strongest tend to be the best.
    Walter Bagehot
    English economist (1826 - 1877)
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  • Bryan Greenberg In everyday life, I'm pretty much T-shirt and jeans guy - a soft LnA shirt, cool APC jeans, Nikes or Jordans. If I'm going to an event I like to wear a suit, sometimes a three-piece. I'm into brands like Simon Spurr - I think he makes great suits - and Dior Homme.
    Bryan Greenberg
    American actor and singer (1978 - )
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  • Alexander the Great In faith and hope the world will disagree, But all mankind's concern is charity.
    Alexander the Great
    Macedonian king (352 - 323)
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  • Alexander Hamilton In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men the great difficulty lies in this: You must first enable the government to control the governed, and in the next place, oblige it to control itself.
    Alexander Hamilton
    American statesman (1757 - 1804)
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  • Friedrich Melchior Grimm In general, it is not very difficult for little minds to attain splendid situations. It is much more difficult for great minds to attain the place to which their merit fully entitles them.
    Friedrich Melchior Grimm
    German-born French-language journalist, art critic and diplomat
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  • John Ruskin In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • John Barrymore In Genesis, it says that it is not good for a man to be alone; but sometimes it is a great relief.
    John Barrymore
    American actor (1882 - 1942)
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  • Alex Cox In Goodfellas they have this one scene where the camera goes down some steps and walks through a kitchen into a restaurant and the critics were all over this as evidence of the genius of Scorsese and Scorsese is a genius.
    Alex Cox
    English film director, screenwriter and actor (1954 - )
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  • Abraham Lincoln In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be, wrong. God can not be for and against the same thing at the same time.
    Meditation on the Divine Will, ca. 2 September 1862
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • John Ruskin In great countries, children are always trying to remain children, and the parents want to make them into adults. In vile countries, the children are always wanting to be adults and the parents want to keep them children.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Gamaliel Bradford In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
    Gamaliel Bradford
    American biographer, critic, poet, and dramatist (1863 - 1932)
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  • Titus Livy In great straits and when hope is small, the boldest counsels are the safest.
    Titus Livy
    Roman historian (59 - 17)
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