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  • Carl Sandburg Tell him to be a fool every so often
    and to have no shame over having been a fool
    yet learning something over every folly.
    Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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  • Benjamin Franklin That which resembles most living one's life over again, seems to be to recall all the circumstances of it; and, to render this remembrance more durable, to record them in writing.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Bruce Springsteen That you know flag flying over the courthouse
    Means certain things are set in stone
    Who we are, what we'll do and what we won't.
    Magic (2007) Long Walk Home
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Evelyn Waugh That's the public-school system all over. They may kick you out, but they never let you down.
    Evelyn Waugh
    British novelist (1903 - 1966)
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  • Robert Browning That's the wise thrush; he sings each song twice over, lest you should think he never could recapture the first fine careless rapture!
    Robert Browning
    English poet (1812 - 1889)
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  • Barry Diller The ability for consumers to receive broadcast over the air signal is their right.
    Barry Diller
    American businessman (1942 - )
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  • Barry Ritholtz The ability to select stocks, manage them over time and know when to sell them is incredibly difficult, even for professional fund managers.
    Barry Ritholtz
    American author and newspaper columnist
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  • Ben Harper The advice I have for new artists is this - write great songs and play them live as often as possible. Get residencies all over town and crush it.
    Ben Harper
    American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist (1969 - )
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  • Ada Louise Huxtable The age of Lincoln and Jefferson memorials is over. It will be presidential libraries from now on.
    Ada Louise Huxtable
    American architecture critic and writer (1921 - 2013)
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  • Aaron McGruder The American people have no control over what the military does. We have no say in American foreign policy.
    Aaron McGruder
    American writer, lecturer and producer (1974 - )
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  • Alain de Botton The Arab-Israeli conflict is also in many ways a conflict about status: it's a war between two peoples who feel deeply humiliated by the other, who want the other to respect them. Battles over status can be even more intractable than those over land or water or oil.
    Alain de Botton
    Swiss-born British author (1969 - )
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  • Bernardine Dohrn The aspects of patriotism that hush dissent, encourage going along, and sanction comfortable distancing and compliance with what is indecent and unacceptable... those aspects are too fundamental to ignore or gloss over.
    Bernardine Dohrn
    American law professor and activist
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  • Bruno Dumont The battle between two men over a girl is the same as the fight for two men over a piece of land. It is all about desire. There is no difference between a love triangle and the conflict between Israel and Palestine.
    Bruno Dumont
    French film director and screenwriter (1958 - )
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  • Napoleon Hill The battle is all over except the ''shouting'' when one knows what is wanted and has made up his mind to get it, whatever the price may be.
    Napoleon Hill
    American self-help author (1883 - 1970)
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  • Carole Berman The best thing about doing needlepoint for very small children is that they are so uncritical. The don't say things like, I see you've missed some stitches over here on the leg, was that intentional? or Was this creature blinded in a fight? They will clasp it in their little arms and love it besottedly, inseparably as the thing becomes more and more rancid.
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  • Harriet Beecher Stowe The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
    Harriet Beecher Stowe
    American Novelist (1811 - 1896)
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  • Paul Auster The book that convinced me I wanted to be a writer was 'Crime and Punishment'. I put the thing down after reading it in a fever over two or three days... I said, 'If this is what a book can be, then that is what I want to do.
    (2005)
    Paul Auster
    American writer and film (1947 - )
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  • Paxton Hood The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over his library, ''The medicines of the soul.''
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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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