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  • Bayard Taylor And half in shade and half in sun; The Rose sat in her bower, With a passionate thrill in her crimson heart.
    Bayard Taylor
    American poet, travel author, and diplomat (1825 - 1878)
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  • Edmund Burke And having looked to government for bread, on the very first scarcity they will turn and bite the hand that fed them. To avoid that evil, government will redouble the causes of it; and then it will become inveterate and incurable.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • Lord George Byron And having wisdom with each studious year, in meditation dwelt, with learning wrought, and shaped his weapon with an edge severe, sapping a solemn creed with solemn sneer.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Jonathan Swift And he gave it for his opinion, that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together.
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • Bret Harte And he says that the mountains are fairer For once being held in your thought;
    East and West Poems, Part I His Answer to Her Letter
    Bret Harte
    American short story writer and poet (1836 - 1902)
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  • Bret Harte And he smiled a kind of sickly smile, and curled up on the floor, And the subsequent proceedings interested him no more.
    Bret Harte
    American short story writer and poet (1836 - 1902)
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  • Adam Clarke And hence he must be invisible; for a spirit cannot be seen by the eye of man: nor is there any thing in this principle contradictory to reason or experience.
    Adam Clarke
    British Methodist theologian (1760 - 1832)
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  • Thomas B. Macaulay And how can man die better than facing fearful odds, for the ashes of his fathers, and the temples of his Gods?
    Thomas B. Macaulay
    American essayist and historian (1800 - 1859)
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  • Carl Sandburg And how should a beautiful, ignorant stream of water know it heads for an early release - out across the desert, running toward the Gulf, below sea level, to murmur its lullaby, and see the Imperial Valley rise out of burning sand with cotton blossoms, wheat, watermelons, roses, how should it know?
    Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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  • Brian De Palma And I always had this idea for making a movie about a femme fatale, because I like these characters. They're a lot of fun, they're sexy, they're manipulative, they're dangerous.
    Brian De Palma
    American film director and screenwriter (1940 - )
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  • Alanis Morissette And I always laugh at that, because I think I've always been doing what I want to do since Day 1.
    Alanis Morissette
    Canadian-American singer, songwriter and actress (1974 - )
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  • Bertolt Brecht And I always thought: the very simplest words
    Must be enough. When I say what things are like
    Everyone's heart must be torn to shreds.
    That you'll go down if you don't stand up for yourself
    Surely you see that.
    Poems, 1913-1956 And I always thought [Und ich dachte immer] (c. 19
    Bertolt Brecht
    German - Austrian writer (1898 - 1956)
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  • Anne Tyler And I am interested in the fact that class is very much a factor in America, even though it's not supposed to be.
    Anne Tyler
    American novelist and short story writer (1941 - )
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  • Martin Luther King And I believe it because somehow the arc of the moral universe is long but it bends toward justice.
    Keep Moving From This Mountain (1965)
    Martin Luther King
    American preacher (1929 - 1968)
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  • Bob Schieffer And I came away from that experience, and it was a very difficult experience - I came to understand that you have to practice at being a good father and practice at being a good husband, just as you have to practice at being a good journalist.
    Bob Schieffer
    American television journalist (1937 - )
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  • Bruce Nauman And I don't have any specific steps to take because I don't start the same way every time. But there is a knowing when it's enough and you can leave it alone.
    Bruce Nauman
    American artist (1941 - )
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  • Bill Bryson And I find chopsticks frankly distressing. Am I alone in thinking it odd that a people ingenious enough to invent paper, gunpowder, kites and any number of other useful objects, and who have a noble history extending back 3,000 years haven't yet worked out that a pair of knitting needles is no way to capture food?
    Bill Bryson
    American-British author (1951 - )
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  • Angela Davis And I guess what I would say is that we can't think narrowly about movements for black liberation and we can't necessarily see this class division as simply a product or a certain strategy that black movements have developed for liberation.
    Angela Davis
    American political activist, philosopher, academic, and author (1944 - )
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  • Betty Ford And I have always told the patients when I talk to them. When they come around and say, 'What will you have to drink? Oh that's right you don't drink.' Just speak up and say, 'Of course I drink. But I just don't drink alcohol.'
    Betty Ford
    American First Lady (1918 - 2011)
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  • Beatrice Wood And I have exposed myself to art so that my work has something beyond just the usual potter.
    Beatrice Wood
    American artist (1893 - 1998)
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