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  • Miserable creatures, thrown for a moment on the surface of this little pile of mud, is it decreed that one half of the flock should be the persecutor of the other? Is it for you, mankind, to pronounce on what is good and what is evil?

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  • Henry David Thoreau A name pronounced is the recognition of the individual to whom it belongs. He who can pronounce my name aright, he can call me, and is entitled to my love and service.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Henry James I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort. If I could pronounce the name James in any different or more elaborate way I should be in favor of doing it.
    Henry James
    American author (1843 - 1916)
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  • Barbara Walters I was the kind nobody thought could make it. I had a funny Boston accent. I couldn't pronounce my R's. I wasn't a beauty.
    Barbara Walters
    American journalist and author (1929 - )
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  • Simone Weil If Germany, thanks to Hitler and his successors, were to enslave the European nations and destroy most of the treasures of their past, future historians would certainly pronounce that she had civilized Europe.
    Simone Weil
    French philosopher (1909 - 1943)
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  • George Bernard Shaw If the announcer can produce the impression that he is a gentlemen, he may pronounce as he pleases.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Benjamin Franklin It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Norman Tebbit It is certainly safe, in view of the movement to the right of intellectuals and political thinkers, to pronounce the brain death of socialism.
    Norman Tebbit
    British politician (1931 - )
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  • Marquis de Sade Miserable creatures, thrown for a moment on the surface of this little pile of mud, is it decreed that one half of the flock should be the persecutor of the other? Is it for you, mankind, to pronounce on what is good and what is evil?
    Marquis de Sade
    French aristocrat, writer, politician and philosopher (1740 - 1814)
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  • Aeschylus Only when a man's life comes to its end in prosperity dare we pronounce him happy.
    Aeschylus
    Greek dramatist (525 - 456)
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  • Barbara Demick Over the years, so many exceptions and amendments were made to China's one-child policy that it was hard to pinpoint a moment to pronounce it dead.
    Barbara Demick
    American journalist
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