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  • Bill Evans Words are the children of reason and, therefore, can't explain it. They really can't translate feeling because they're not part of it. That's why it bugs me when people try to analyze jazz as an intellectual theorem. It's not. It's feeling.
    Bill Evans
    American jazz pianist and composer (1929 - 1980)
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  • James Baldwin Words like ''freedom,'' ''justice,'' ''democracy'' are not common concepts; on the contrary, they are rare. People are not born knowing what these are. It takes enormous and, above all, individual effort to arrive at the respect for other people that these words imply.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Oscar Wilde Work is a refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Kahlil Gibran Work is love made visible. And if you can't work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of the people who work with joy.
    Kahlil Gibran
    Libian painter and writer (1883 - 1931)
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  • Oscar Wilde Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Bridgit Mendler Working on 'Good Luck Charlie' has been an awesome experience, and it's so crazy to build a fan base and have all those people tune into the show.
    Bridgit Mendler
    American actress, singer, and songwriter (1992 - )
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  • Bill Shorten Workplace relations is about getting the best out of people. An argument which says that the only way we can compete with other nations in the world is engaging in a race to the bottom in terms of pay rates, penalty rates, protections on rosters, getting rid of family friendly provisions - that is not Australia's future.
    Bill Shorten
    Australian politician (1967 - )
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  • Socrates Worthless people love only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live.
    Socrates
    Greek philosopher (469 - 399)
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  • Bertolt Brecht Would it not be easier In that case for the government To dissolve the people And elect another?
    The Solution [Die Lösung] After the rebellion of East German workers.
    Bertolt Brecht
    German - Austrian writer (1898 - 1956)
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  • Natalie Clifford Barney Would that well-thinking people should be replaced by thinking ones.
    Natalie Clifford Barney
    American-born French author (1876 - 1972)
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  • Britney Spears Would you go into a CD store and steal a CD? It's the same thing, people going into the computers and loggin' on and stealing our music.
    Britney Spears
    American singer, songwriter, dancer, and actress (1981 - )
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  • Katherine Mansfield Would you not like to try all sorts of lives - one is so very small - but that is the satisfaction of writing - one can impersonate so many people.
    Katherine Mansfield
    New Zealand-born British Author (1888 - 1923)
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  • Wendell Phillips Write on my gravestone: ''Infidel, Traitor.'' - infidel to every church that compromises with wrong; traitor to every government that oppresses the people.
    Wendell Phillips
    American Reformer, Orator (1811 - 1884)
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  • Bernard Malamud Writers who can't invent stories often substitute style for narrative. They remind me of the painter who couldn't paint people, so he painted chairs.
    Bernard Malamud
    American novelist (1914 - 1986)
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  • Bette Midler Writing a book is not as tough as it is to haul thirty-five people around the country and sweat like a horse five nights a week.
    Bette Midler
    American singer, songwriter, actress and comedian (1945 - )
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  • Bobbie Ann Mason Writing about where I was from and the people I knew was not something that would have occurred to me early on, because like so many Southerners of that period - the Sixties - I rejected those things when I went north.
    Bobbie Ann Mason
    American novelist and short story writer
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  • Julie Burchill Writing is more than anything a compulsion, like some people wash their hands thirty times a day for fear of awful consequences if they do not. It pays a whole lot better than this type of compulsion, but it is no more heroic.
    Julie Burchill
    British journalist, writer
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  • Antonio Tabucchi Xenophobia manifests itself especially against civilizations and cultures that are weak because they lack economic resources, means of subsistence or land. So nomadic people are the first targets of this kind of aggression.
    Antonio Tabucchi
    Italian writer and academic (1943 - )
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  • Friedrich von Schiller Yes great people are always subject to persecution and always getting into straits.
    Friedrich von Schiller
    German poet and playwright (1759 - 1805)
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  • Bob Dylan Yes, and how many deaths will it take till he knows that too many people have died?
    The Freewheelin Bob Dylan (1963)
    Bob Dylan
    American musician (1941 - )
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