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  • Bill Clinton People like you always help the far-right, because you like to hurt people, and you like to talk about how bad people are and all their personal failings.
    Bill Clinton
    President of the US (1946 - )
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  • Ben Mezrich People rely on Wikipedia, and a lot of it is wrong. But because there it is on the Internet, they assume it's right. Rumor gets printed as fact. We may have lost our critical facility as a nation.
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  • Carl Hiaasen People say sometimes, gosh, that was brave of you to write such-and-such last week. 'Brave?' What do they mean 'brave?' It's right! How could you not write it?
    Carl Hiaasen
    American writer, author and journalist (1953 - )
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  • Arthur Christopher Benson People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.
    Arthur Christopher Benson
    English essayist, poet, author and academic (1862 - 1925)
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  • Ban Ki-moon People understand that nuclear weapons cannot be used without indiscriminate effects on civilian populations. Such weapons have no legitimate place in our world. Their elimination is both morally right and a practical necessity in protecting humanity.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Bode Miller People want athletes to cater to their image of what an athlete should be, but they also want them to fail so they can feel like their screwups are all right. If I make a priority shift, I'll make it because it's best for me.
    Bode Miller
    American former World Cup alpine ski racer (1977 - )
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  • Eric Hoffer People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false; a gift confers no rights.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Benedict Cumberbatch People's hands fascinate me. It's tempting to look at a businessman's left hand and see if there's an indentation from a missing wedding ring. Or maybe there's a tan line and the skin is pressed down where's he's worked a ring off his finger.
    Benedict Cumberbatch
    English actor (1976 - )
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  • Alexander Chase People, like sheep, tend to follow a leader - occasionally in the right direction.
    Alexander Chase
    American journalist and editor (1926 - )
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  • Voltaire Perfection is attained by slow degrees; she requires the hand of time.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • Winston Churchill Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Andrew Wiles Perhaps the methods I needed to complete the proof would not be invented for a hundred years. So even if I was on the right track, I could be living in the wrong century.
    Andrew Wiles
    English mathematician (1953 - )
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  • Olive Schreiner Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.
    Olive Schreiner
    South African author and anti-war campaigner (1855 - 1920)
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  • Billy Eckstine Piano should be the one. Yeah, because that's your basis. Everything is right there in front of you.
    Billy Eckstine
    American jazz and pop singer and a bandleader (1914 - 1993)
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  • Ben Hogan Placing the ball in the right position for the next shot is eighty percent of winning golf.
    Ben Hogan
    American professional golfer (1912 - )
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  • Ernest Hemingway Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? He thinks I don't know the ten-dollar words. I know them all right. But there are older and simpler and better words, and those are the ones I use.
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • Laurence Sterne Positiveness is an absurd foible. If you are in the right, it lessens your triumph; if in the wrong, it adds shame to your defeat.
    Laurence Sterne
    British author (1713 - 1768)
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  • Ben Jonson Pray thee, take care, that tak'st my book in hand,
    To read it well: that is, to understand.
    The Works of Ben Jonson, First Folio I, To The Reader, lines 1-2.
    Ben Jonson
    British Dramatist, Poet (1572 - 1637)
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  • Seneca Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones on hand do more to produce a happy life than the volumes we can't find.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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