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  • Winston Churchill The nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders who are keeping their ears to the ground.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Thomas Jefferson The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • C. Wright Mills The professional celebrity, male and female, is the crowning result of the star system of a society that makes a fetish of competition. In America, this system is carried to the point where a man who can knock a small white ball into a series of holes in the ground with more efficiency than anyone else thereby gains social access to the President of the United States.
    C. Wright Mills
    American sociologist (1916 - 1962)
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  • Alice Walker The sight of a Black nun strikes their sentimentality; and, as I am unalterably rooted in native ground, they consider me a work of primitive art, housed in a magical color; the incarnation of civilized, anti-heathenism, and the fruit of a triumphing idea.
    Alice Walker
    American Author, Critic (1944 - 1982)
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  • Ben Vereen The theater was my first training ground. It taught me discipline, dedication and appreciation of hard work.
    Ben Vereen
    American actor, dancer and singer (1946 - )
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  • Alfred N. Whitehead The ultimate metaphysical ground is the creative advance into novelty.
    Source: Process and Reality (1929) p. 411
    Alfred N. Whitehead
    English philosopher and mathematician (1861 - 1947)
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  • Patricia Meyer Spacks The vanity of men, a constant insult to women, is also the ground for the implicit feminine claim of superior sensitivity and morality.
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  • Charles Baudelaire The whole visible universe is but a storehouse of images and signs to which the imagination will give a relative place and value; it is a sort of pasture which the imagination must digest and transform.
    Charles Baudelaire
    French poet (1821 - 1867)
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  • Bob Menendez There are many domestic issues that give us a lot of common ground to work on. Health, education and immigration are among the areas where we share mutual goals and aspirations. There are also many values that we share as a communities.
    Bob Menendez
    American politician (1954 - )
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  • Baldwin Spencer There comes a time when what is needed is not just rhetoric, but boots on the ground.
    Baldwin Spencer
    Antigua and Barbuda politican and labour leader (1948 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson There is a certain satisfaction in coming down to the lowest ground of politics, for we get rid of cant and hypocrisy.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Bjorn Lomborg There is no doubt that we should take solar radiation into account. We have seen ground temperatures rising since 1975, and it is important to know to what extent that has been caused by the sun or by carbon dioxide.
    Bjorn Lomborg
    Danish author (1965 - )
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  • Ben Hogan There is no similarity between golf and putting; they are two different games, one played in the air, and the other on the ground.
    Ben Hogan
    American professional golfer (1912 - )
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  • Bob Dylan There's no black and white, left and right to me anymore; there's only up and down and down is very close to the ground. And I'm trying to go up without thinking about anything trivial such as politics. They has got nothing to do with it. I'm thinking about the general people and when they get hurt.
    Source: Address to the Emergency Civil Liberties Committee (13 December 1963)
    Bob Dylan
    American musician (1941 - )
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  • Benjamin Tucker Therefore coercion of the non-invasive, when justifiable at all, is to be justified on the ground that it secures, not a minimum of ' invasion, but a minimum of pain.
    Benjamin Tucker
    American anarchist and socialist (1854 - 1939)
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  • Philip Roth There’s no remaking reality... Just take it as it comes. Hold your ground and take it as it comes. There’s no other way.
    Source: Everyman (2006)
    Philip Roth
    American Novelist (1933 - 2018)
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  • T. S. Eliot Think not forever of yourselves, O Chiefs, nor of your own generation. Think of continuing generations of our families, think of our grandchildren and of those yet unborn, whose faces are coming from beneath the ground.
    T. S. Eliot
    British essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic (1888 - 1965)
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  • Carl Paladino Three thousand people died at ground zero. Their families are entitled to a little bit of respect, to respect the memory of those poor people that died there. And how about the families of all those soldiers that died in the two ensuing wars? Aren't they entitled to a little bit of respect - the kids, the wives, the parents?
    Carl Paladino
    American businessman (1946 - )
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  • Sir Alfred Jules Ayer To say that authority, whether secular or religious, supplies no ground for morality is not to deny the obvious fact that it supplies a sanction.
    Sir Alfred Jules Ayer
    English philosopher (1910 - 1989)
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  • Albert Einstein To the Master's honor all must turn, each in its track, without a sound, forever tracing Newton's ground.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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