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  • Arthur Scargill Contrast that with the call of the Liberal Democrats in April, when they were prepared to call upon the British people to participate in a 24-hour strike. It shows how far to the right the Labour Party's gone.
    Arthur Scargill
    British trade unionist (1938 - )
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  • Louis Pasteur Did you ever observe to whom the accidents happen? Chance favors only the prepared mind.
    Louis Pasteur
    French scientist (1822 - 1895)
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  • Samuel Butler Don't learn to do, but learn in doing. Let your falls not be on a prepared ground, but let them be bona fide falls in the rough and tumble of the world.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Charles Caleb Colton Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Umberto Eco Fear prophets and those prepared to die for the truth, for as a rule they make many others die with them, often before them, at times instead of them.
    Umberto Eco
    Italian writer and critic (1932 - 2016)
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg Food probably has a very great influence on the condition of men. Wine exercises a more visible influence, food does it more slowly but perhaps just as surely. Who knows if a well-prepared soup was not responsible for the pneumatic pump or a poor one for a war?
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Edwin Markham For all your days be prepared, and meet them ever alike. When you are the anvil, bear - when you are the hammer, strike.
    Edwin Markham
    American poet and editor (1852 - 1940)
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  • Louis Pasteur Fortune favors the prepared mind.
    Louis Pasteur
    French scientist (1822 - 1895)
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  • Albert Camus From Paul to Stalin, the popes who have chosen Caesar have prepared the way for Caesars who quickly learn to despise popes.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Bille August From the beginning, we were prepared, we know how we would shoot and cut the two versions.
    Bille August
    Danish director, screenwriter, and cinematographer (1948 - )
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  • Jeremy Taylor God hath prepared a little coronet or special reward (extraordinary and beside the great crown of all faithful souls) for those who have not defiled themselves with women.
    Jeremy Taylor
    British churchman and writer (1613 - 1667)
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  • Bryn Terfel Good acting is about being as natural and calm as possible. These days producers have such definite ideas that you have to be prepared to do whatever they ask.
    Bryn Terfel
    Welsh bass-baritone opera singer (1965 - )
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  • Barbara Ehrenreich Heads of state are notoriously ill prepared for their mature careers; think of Adolf Hitler (landscape painter), Ho Chi Minh (seaman), and our own Ronald Reagan.
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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  • Walter Bagehot History is strewn with the wrecks of nations which have gained a little progressiveness at the cost of a great deal of hard manliness, and have thus prepared themselves for destruction as soon as the movements of the world gave a chance for it.
    Walter Bagehot
    English economist (1826 - 1877)
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  • Benjamin Disraeli I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Winston Churchill I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Winston Churchill I am ready to meet my maker, but whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Andrew Vachss I believe my publisher has shown a great deal of faith in me over a lot of years but I'm not prepared to be so arrogant to say that the long-term literary value of my work would compensate them for a financial failure.
    Andrew Vachss
    American crime fiction author (1942 - )
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  • Andrew Jackson I cannot consent that my mortal body shall be laid in a repository prepared for an Emperor or a King my republican feelings and principles forbid it the simplicity of our system of government forbids it.
    Andrew Jackson
    American president (7th) (1767 - 1845)
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  • Katherine Anne Porter I have not much interest in anyone's personal history after the tenth year, not even my own. Whatever one was going to be was all prepared before that.
    Katherine Anne Porter
    American short-story writer (1890 - 1980)
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