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  • Albert Camus The rebel can never find peace. He knows what is good and, despite himself, does evil. The value which supports him is never given to him once and for all - he must fight to uphold it, unceasingly.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Beck The repercussions of what you put out and what people gravitate to in your music never registered at all. I never had that thing that maybe other bands have - a specific idea of what they are and what their sound is.
    Beck
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1970 - )
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  • Calvin Coolidge The right thing to do never requires any subterfuge, it is always simple and direct.
    Calvin Coolidge
    American president (1872 - 1933)
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  • Bill Clinton The road to tyranny, we must never forget, begins with the destruction of the truth.
    Source: Remarks at the Dedication of the Thomas J. Dodd Archives and Research Center
    Bill Clinton
    President of the US (1946 - )
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  • Arthur Hertzberg The Roosevelt enactment of Social Security was a moral revolution in our country: We were assured that we would never reach the very depths of poverty. And to be told, that we are now going to gamble it, on Wall Street, is nonsense!
    Arthur Hertzberg
    Jewish-American scholar and activist (1921 - 2006)
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  • A. N. Wilson The Royal Family are not like you and me. They live in houses so big that you can walk round all day and never need to meet your spouse. The Queen and Prince Philip have never shared a bedroom in their lives. They don't even have breakfast together.
    A. N. Wilson
    English writer and columnist (1950 - )
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  • Busy Philipps The rugs that I picked out and the pillows with the little owls, sort of like whimsical throw pillows - I feel like you can never enough whimsical throw pillows in your house, in your life. My husband probably disagrees.
    Busy Philipps
    American actress and writer (1979 - )
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  • Charles Buxton The rule in carving holds good as to criticism; never cut with a knife what you can cut with a spoon.
    Charles Buxton
    British writer (1823 - 1871)
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  • Abraham Pais The rule of the game was never assume that anybody, however honorable, would be able to stand up under torture. If Mr. X, who knew where I was, was caught for some reason, I should move.
    Abraham Pais
    Dutch-American physicist (1918 - 2000)
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  • Benjamin N. Cardozo The rules and principles of case law have never been treated as final truths but as working hypotheses, continually retested in those great laboratories of the law, the courts of justice. Every new case is an experiment, and if the accepted rule which seems applicable yields a result which is felt to be unjust, the rule is reconsidered.
    Benjamin N. Cardozo
    American lawyer and jurist (1870 - 1938)
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  • Bob Schaffer The Russians have a lot at stake, and the power of Moscow pride should never be underestimated.
    Bob Schaffer
    American politician (1962 - )
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  • Alexander Hamilton The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased.
    Alexander Hamilton
    American statesman (1757 - 1804)
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  • Mae West The score never interested me, only the game.
    Mae West
    American actress (1893 - 1980)
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  • A. N. Wilson The scribbler's life is never done.
    A. N. Wilson
    English writer and columnist (1950 - )
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  • Joseph Conrad The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness.
    Joseph Conrad
    In Poland born English writer (1857 - 1924)
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  • Carl Sandburg The sea speaks a language polite people never repeat. It is a colossal scavenger slang and has no respect.
    Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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  • Betty Ford The search for human freedom can never be complete without freedom for women.
    Betty Ford
    American First Lady (1918 - 2011)
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  • Aldous Huxley The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Oscar Wilde The secret of remaining young is never to have an emotion that is unbecoming.
    Source: The picture of Dorian Gray (1891)
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Arthur Helps The sense of danger is never, perhaps, so fully apprehended as when the danger has been overcome.
    Arthur Helps
    English writer and dean
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