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  • Anthony Holden We could have a political movement going if it had been properly organized but the Monarchy's done itself enormous damage possibly beyond the point of long-term recovery.
    Anthony Holden
    English writer, broadcaster and critic
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  • Benjamin Netanyahu We don't point a pistol at our own forehead. That is not the way to conduct negotiations.
    Benjamin Netanyahu
    Israeli politician (2009 - )
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  • Carl Schurz We have come to a point where it is loyalty to resist, and treason to submit.
    State Rights and Byron Paine, Albany Hall, Milwaukee, (23 March 1859)
    Carl Schurz
    American statesman, journalist, and reformer (1829 - 1906)
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  • Bjorn Lomborg We have to be aware that the scientific community throws up tons of different hypotheses and at a certain point we'll find out who was right and who was wrong. But we have to go with the best information right now, which I would claim to be the IPCC reports.
    Bjorn Lomborg
    Danish author (1965 - )
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  • Bob Graham We need to have a strong defense focused on areas that are in the greatest vulnerability. I have been very concerned about America's 361 seaports as a point in which terrorist activities and materials could be brought into the country.
    Bob Graham
    American politician and author (1936 - )
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  • Henry Ward Beecher We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Adrian Smith We try and stay out of the corporate side of it. The band has never compromised. At some point in our career we could have made a certain type of record and sold millions of units, as they are called.
    Adrian Smith
    English guitarist and pianist (1957 - )
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  • Anita Borg We're at unique point in history where the things that we are building are going to significantly impact our social, political, economical, and personal lives.
    Anita Borg
    American computer scientist (1949 - 2003)
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  • Helen Rowland Wedding: the point at which a man stops toasting a woman and begins roasting her.
    Helen Rowland
    American journalist (1875 - 1950)
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  • Bernhard Langer Well, the memories were obviously - every match is important, every point counts, especially the last sort of 18, 20 years when the matches have been so tight.
    Bernhard Langer
    German professional golfer (1957 - )
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  • Bliss Carman What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease.
    Bliss Carman
    Canadian poet (1861 - 1929)
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  • Bernard Cornwell What I mean by that is that the point of life, as I see it, is not to write books or scale mountains or sail oceans, but to achieve happiness, and preferably an unselfish happiness.
    Bernard Cornwell
    British author of historical novels (1944 - )
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  • Bernhard Schlink What I really like about law is that it's not an endless discourse like history or philosophy. In law, there comes a point where problems have to be solved, and cases decided.
    Bernhard Schlink
    German lawyer, academic, and novelist (1944 - )
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  • Barry Commoner What is new is that environmentalism intensely illuminates the need to confront the corporate domain at its most powerful and guarded point - the exclusive right to govern the systems of production.
    Barry Commoner
    American cellular biologist, college professor, and politician (1917 - 2012)
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  • Oscar Wilde What is said of a man is nothing. The point is, who says it.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Alan Watts What the devil is the point of surviving, going on living, when it's a drag? But you see, that's what people do.
    Alan Watts
    English philosopher, priest and writer (1915 - 1973)
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  • Henri-Frédéric Amiel What we call little things are merely the causes of great things; they are the beginning, the embryo, and it is the point of departure which, generally speaking, decides the whole future of an existence. One single black speck may be the beginning of a gangrene, of a storm, of a revolution.
    Henri-Frédéric Amiel
    Swiss philosopher and poet (1821 - 1881)
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  • Bryce Courtenay What's the point in being an unpopular writer? It just doesn't make a lot of sense. For me it doesn't, anyway.
    Bryce Courtenay
    South African-Australian advertising director and novelist (1933 - 2012)
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  • Aldous Huxley What’s the point of truth or beauty or knowledge when anthrax bombs are popping all around you?
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Caroline Wozniacki When I am on court, I am so focused on what I am doing, that's all I think about - trying to win the next point.
    Caroline Wozniacki
    Danish tennis player (1990 - )
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