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  • Bobbie Ann Mason My father-in-law was a pilot. During World War II, he was shot down in a B-17 over Belgium. With the help of the French Resistance, he made his way through Occupied France and back to his base in England.
    Bobbie Ann Mason
    American novelist and short story writer
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  • Billy Strayhorn My grandmother played the piano, and I used to toddle over there and pick out little things that sounded good to me.
    Billy Strayhorn
    American jazz composer and pianist (1915 - 1967)
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  • Bobby Hull My job is to suggest and ratify and use any expertise that I might have gained over the 23 years in professional hockey to make our game a better game.
    Bobby Hull
    Canadian ice hockey player (1939 - )
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  • Bjarne Stroustrup My list of basic tools is a partial answer to the question about what has changed: Over the past few years, large numbers of programmers have come to depend on elaborate tools to interface code with systems facilities.
    Bjarne Stroustrup
    Danish computer scientist (1950 - )
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  • Bonnie Tyler My mother, who died aged 82, had Alzheimer's. Losing your memory is bad enough, but everything shuts down. You can't remember how to eat or go to the toilet. It's a terrible disease and so distressing to watch it take over someone you love.
    Bonnie Tyler
    Welsh singer (1951 - )
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  • Bruce Springsteen My only general rule was to steer away from things I played with the band over the past couple of tours. I was interested in re-shaping the Rising material for live shows, so people could hear the bare bones of that.
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Brad Sherman My positions on gun safety have remained consistent over the years, and have been on my website for years. Whether I'm in a tough re-election race, an easy re-election race, or if it isn't an election year, whether there's a high-profile tragedy in the news or otherwise, my position remains unchanged and on my website.
    Brad Sherman
    American politician (1954 - )
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  • Bruce Vilanch My skirt fell off on stage during a performance of Hairspray on Broadway, revealing my fat suit over my own natural fat suit. I turned to the audience and said, 'Now you know why I spent six years in a square.'
    Bruce Vilanch
    American comedy writer, songwriter and actor (1948 - )
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  • Barack Obama My task over the last two years hasn't just been to stop the bleeding. My task has also been to try to figure out how do we address some of the structural problems in the economy that have prevented more Googles from being created.
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Brett Hull My teeth have never been touched. Why did I tell you that? Knock on wood. I've got a few scars over the eyes, a couple on the chin, a few on the beak and one across the cheek. But my luck is running out.
    Brett Hull
    Canadian-born American former ice hockey player (1964 - )
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  • Ban Ki-moon My U.N. five-point plan focuses on preventing proliferation, strengthening the legal regime, and ensuring nuclear safety and security - an effort that was given good momentum by the Nuclear Security Summit held in Seoul earlier this year. The world is over-armed, and peace is underfunded.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Al Sharpton National Action Network, the group I founded, has affiliates or chapters in over 40 cities around the country.
    Al Sharpton
    American civil rights activist, Baptist minister and talk show host (1954 - )
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  • Dwight D. Eisenhower Neither a wise nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.
    Dwight D. Eisenhower
    American president (1890 - 1969)
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  • W. C. Fields Never cry over spilt milk, because it may have been poisoned.
    W. C. Fields
    American Actor (1880 - 1946)
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  • Aubrey Beardsley No language is rude that can boast polite writers.
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  • Napoleon Hill No man ever achieved worth-while success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure.
    Napoleon Hill
    American self-help author (1883 - 1970)
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  • Anton Chekhov No matter how corrupt and unjust a convict may be, he loves fairness more than anything else. If the people placed over him are unfair, from year to year he lapses into an embittered state characterized by an extreme lack of faith.
    Anton Chekhov
    Russian playwright and short story writer
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  • Kofi Annan No nation can make itself secure by seeking supremacy over all others. We all share responsibility for each other's security, and only by working to make each other secure can we hope to achieve lasting security for ourselves.
    (2006)
    Kofi Annan
    Ghanaian diplomat (1938 - 2018)
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  • Claudius No one is free who does not lord over himself.
    Claudius
    Roman emperor (10 - 54)
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  • Cyril Connolly No one over thirty-five is worth meeting who has not something to teach us, something more than we could learn for ourselves, from a book.
    Cyril Connolly
    British criticus (1903 - 1974)
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