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  • Aldous Huxley We did not make ourselves, we cannot be supreme over ourselves. We are not our own masters.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Bernard M. Baruch We didn't all come over on the same ship, but we're all in the same boat.
    Bernard M. Baruch
    American investor, philanthropist, statesman, and political consultant (1870 - 1965)
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  • David Grayson We fail far more often by timidity than by over-daring.
    David Grayson
    American journalist, historian and author, pen name of Ray Baker (1870 - 1946)
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  • Bayard Taylor We follow and race In shifting chase, Over the boundless ocean-space! Who hath beheld when the race begun? Who shall behold it run?
    Bayard Taylor
    American poet, travel author, and diplomat (1825 - 1878)
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  • George Eliot We hand folks over to God's mercy, and show none ourselves.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Barry McCaffrey We have 1.8 million Americans behind bars today at Local, State and Federal level. In the federal system, which has doubled in the last ten years, over 110,000 people behind bars in the Federal system, probably two-thirds are there for drug related reason.
    Barry McCaffrey
    American Army officer, professor and business consultant (1942 - )
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  • Thomas Paine We have it in our power to begin the world over again.
    Thomas Paine
    English-born American political activist, philosopher, political theor (1737 - 1809)
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  • B. W. Powe We have to learn how to contact one another over an enormous land space, across five-and-a-half time zones, in what as once a wilderness of scattered settlements, in what is now a sprawl of suburban edge cities and satellite towns. Technology forges connections and disconnections here.
    Towards A Canada of Light First Meditation, p. 35
    B. W. Powe
    Canadian poet, novelist and teacher (1955 - )
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  • Edward Gibbon We improve ourselves by victories over ourselves. There must be contest, and we must win.
    Edward Gibbon
    British historian (1737 - 1794)
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  • Brigid Brophy We Irish had the right word on the tip of our tongue, but the imperialist got at that. What should trip off it we trip over.
    Brigid Brophy
    British novelist and critic (1929 - 1995)
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  • Jean Genet We know that their adventures are childish. They themselves are fools. They are ready to kill or be killed over a card-game in which an opponent - or they themselves - was cheating. Yet, thanks to such fellows, tragedies are possible.
    Jean Genet
    French playwright and author (1910 - 1986)
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  • Cass Sunstein We live in a period in which political disagreements are routinely handed over to the courts. Whenever you think that the president is wrong, you might well cry out that he has violated the Constitution - and ask federal judges to rule accordingly.
    Cass Sunstein
    American legal scholar (1954 - )
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  • Henry David Thoreau We live thick and are in each other's way, and stumble over one another, and I think we thus lose some respect for one another.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Bobby Doerr We lived near a playground that had four baseball diamonds on it, and when I got to be 11, 12 years old, I was always over at the ballpark practicing or playing or doing something pertaining to baseball. And when I wasn't doing that, I was bouncing a rubber ball off the steps of my front porch at home.
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  • Marian Wright Edelman We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee.
    Marian Wright Edelman
    American activist for children's rights (1939 - )
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  • Jean Rostand We must watch over our modesty in the presence of those who cannot understand its grounds.
    Jean Rostand
    French writer (1894 - 1977)
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  • Ben Gibbard We never sit down before we start making a record and talk about this new sonic palette that we are going to try to explore. We always let the record kind of reveal itself to us over time.
    Ben Gibbard
    American singer, songwriter and guitarist (1976 - )
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  • Charles F. Kettering We often say that the biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee to fail intelligently... to experiment over and over again and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work.
    Charles F. Kettering
    American inventor (1876 - 1958)
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  • William Ellery Channing We smile at the ignorance of the savage who cuts down the tree in order to reach its fruit; but the same blunder is made by every person who is over eager and impatient in the pursuit of pleasure.
    William Ellery Channing
    American Unitarian minister (1780 - 1842)
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  • Bob Weir We wanted to establish a new fan base over here. And second, we wanted to challenge ourselves. We wanted to bring what is ostensibly new music to fresh ears and see what lights them up.
    Bob Weir
    American musician and songwriter (1947 - )
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