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  • Fred Astaire The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any.
    Fred Astaire
    American dancer, singer, actor and choreographer (1899 - 1987)
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  • Caitriona Balfe The hardest part when I decided to move into acting was trusting I'd made the right decision.
    Caitriona Balfe
    Irish actress, producer and former (1979 - )
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  • Abraham Joshua Heschel The higher goal of spiritual living is not to amass a wealth of information, but to face sacred moments
    The Sabbath (1951) p. 6
    Abraham Joshua Heschel
    Polish-American rabbi (1907 - 1972)
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  • Fred Astaire The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of them, it's considered to be your style.
    Fred Astaire
    American dancer, singer, actor and choreographer (1899 - 1987)
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  • Emma Goldman The history of progress is written in the blood of men and women who have dared to espouse an unpopular cause, as, for instance, the black man's right to his body, or woman's right to her soul.
    Emma Goldman
    American anarchist (1869 - 1940)
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  • August Strindberg The hood-winked husband shows his anger, and the word jealous is flung in his face. Jealous husband equals betrayed husband. And there are women who look upon jealousy as synonymous with impotence, so that the betrayed husband can only shut his eyes, powerless in the face of such accusations.
    August Strindberg
    Swedish writer (1849 - 1912)
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  • Bill Viola The human brain is probably one of the most complex single objects on the face of the earth; I think it is, quite honestly.
    Bill Viola
    American video artist (1951 - )
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  • Eliza Farnham The human face is the organic seat of beauty. It is the register of value in development, a record of Experience, whose legitimate office is to perfect the life, a legible language to those who will study it, of the majestic mistress, the soul.
    Eliza Farnham
    American novelist, feminist and abolitionist (1815 - 1864)
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  • Lyndon B. Johnson The hungry world cannot be fed until and unless the growth of its resources and the growth of its population come into balance. Each man and woman-and each nation - must make decisions of conscience and policy in the face of this great problem.
    Lyndon B. Johnson
    American president (1908 - 1973)
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  • Bill Hicks The idea of getting a, you know, syringe full of heroin and shooting it in the vein under my cock right now seems like almost a productive act.
    Im Sorry Folks
    Bill Hicks
    American stand-up comedian, social critic, satirist and musician (1961 - 1994)
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  • Bono The idea that there is one kind of African is, of course, ridiculous. Sometimes African entrepreneurs want to kill you because you are saying public health is the priority, not roads. Of course they are right to press for that issue, but so are we right, I believe, to argue, for example, that millions of children could and should be vaccinated.
    Bono
    Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
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  • Albert Einstein The ideas that have lighted my way and, time after time, have given me new courage to face life cheerfully have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Woodrow Wilson The interesting and inspiring thing about America is that she asks nothing for herself except what she has a right to ask for humanity itself.
    Woodrow Wilson
    American president (1856 - 1924)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche The invalid is a parasite on society. In a certain state it is indecent to go on living. To vegetate on in cowardly dependence on physicians and medicaments after the meaning of life, the right to life, has been lost ought to entail the profound contempt of society.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Carter Burwell The jarring change going from an urban environment to an extremely remote natural environment is extremely inspiring. It's constantly stimulating, it's like a slap in the face.
    Carter Burwell
    American composer of film scores (1954 - )
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  • Arthur Miller The job is to ask questions-it always was-and to ask them as inexorably as I can. And to face the absence of precise answers with a certain humility.
    Arthur Miller
    American Dramatist (1915 - 2005)
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  • Bhumibol Adulyadej The King has a right to make political remarks. He is a Thai citizen and has his rights and freedoms under the Constitution. Each of you is under the Constitution, and so is the King. I am using my freedom under the Constitution.
    Bhumibol Adulyadej
    Thai King (1927 - 2016)
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  • T. S. Eliot The last temptation is the greatest treason: To do the right deed for the wrong reason.
    T. S. Eliot
    British essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic (1888 - 1965)
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  • Raymond Chandler The law isn't justice. It's a very imperfect mechanism. If you press exactly the right buttons and are also lucky, justice may show up in the answer. A mechanism is all the law was ever intended to be.
    Raymond Chandler
    American writer (1888 - 1959)
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  • Barney Frank The left and the right live in parallel universes. The right listens to talk radio, the left's on the Internet and they just reinforce one another. They have no sense of reality. I have now one ambition: to retire before it becomes essential to tweet.
    Barney Frank
    American politician (1940 - )
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