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  • Gene Brown The bridges that you cross before you come to them are over rivers that aren't there.
    Gene Brown
    American author and editor (1942 - )
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  • Victor Hugo The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human race has been roughly handled, but that it has advanced.
    Victor Hugo
    French writer (1802 - 1885)
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  • Albert Claude The cell, over the billions of years of her life, has covered the earth many times with her substance, found ways to control herself and her environment, and insure her survival.
    Albert Claude
    Belgian-American cell biologist and doctor (1899 - 1983)
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  • Agnes E. Meyer The churches... have lost much of their authority over youth because they have refused to re-examine their religious sanctions and their dogmatic preaching in the light of modern physiology, psychology and sociology.
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  • Alan Dundes The class has become over the years fairly large, running to three hundred or more, but I always insist upon reading all the student folklore collections myself. Although this is a tall order, I look forward to it because I learn so much from it.
    Alan Dundes
    American folklorist
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  • Ben Cardin The Clinton Foundation has been able to help millions of people - over 10 million with HIV/AIDS alone - saved countless lives. It's extremely important to global health. They've done some really great things.
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  • Carl von Clausewitz The commander's talents are given greatest scope in rough hilly country. Mountains allow him too little real command over his scattered units and he is unable to control them all; in open country, control is a simple matter and does not test his ability to the fullest.
    On War (1832)
    Carl von Clausewitz
    Prussian general and military theorist (1780 - 1831)
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  • Thomas Carlyle The condition of the most passionate enthusiast is to be preferred over the individual who, because of the fear of making a mistake, won't in the end affirm or deny anything.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Edward Bulwer-Lytton The conscience is the most flexible material in the world. Today you cannot stretch it over a mole hill; while tomorrow it can hide a mountain.
    Edward Bulwer-Lytton
    English writer and poet (1803 - 1873)
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  • Bridgit Mendler The cool thing about doing a voice-over into a different language is that you get to bring the character of your own culture into it.
    Bridgit Mendler
    American actress, singer, and songwriter (1992 - )
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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The course of my long life hath reached at last in fragile bark over a tempestuous sea the common harbor, where must rendered be account for all the actions of the past.
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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  • Bob Marley The devil ain't got no power over me. The devil come, and me shake hands with the devil. Devil have his part to play. Devil's a good friend, too... because when you don't know him, that's the time he can mosh you down.
    Bob Marley
    Jamaican singer-songwriter (1945 - 1981)
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  • Ajay Devgan The difference being that in films, unlike in life, good does always win over evil in the end.
    Ajay Devgan
    Indian film actor and director (1969 - )
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  • Orson Welles The director is simply the audience. So the terrible burden of the director is to take the place of that yawning vacuum, to be the audience and to select from what happens during the day which movement shall be a disaster and which a gala night. His job is to preside over accidents.
    Orson Welles
    American film maker (1915 - 1985)
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  • Malcolm Bradbury The English are polite by telling lies. The Americans are polite by telling the truth.
    Malcolm Bradbury
    English author and academic (1932 - 2000)
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  • Boris Johnson The euro has become a means by which superior German productivity is able to gain an absolutely unbeatable advantage over the whole eurozone territory.
    Boris Johnson
    British politician and author (1964 - )
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  • Ben Shapiro The European style of living is seductive: fewer hours worked, more hours at the cafe, less concern over self-betterment. But that style of living does not produce a purposeful life.
    Ben Shapiro
    American conservative political commentator and attorney (1984 - )
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  • Benjamin Tucker The exercise of authority over the same area by two States is a contradiction.
    Address to Unitarian Ministers
    Benjamin Tucker
    American anarchist and socialist (1854 - 1939)
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  • Bill James The fact is that everybody around a college basketball game - the coaches, the announcers, even the referees at a lower level - calculates when the game is really over. They calculate it with intuition and guesswork.
    Bill James
    American baseball writer, historian, and statistician (1949 - )
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  • Lord George Byron The fact is that my wife if she had common sense would have more power over me than any other whatsoever, for my heart always alights upon the nearest perch.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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