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  • Carl Hubbell As far as control and stuff is concerned, I never had any more in my life than for that All-Star game in 1934.
    Carl Hubbell
    American baseball player (1903 - )
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  • Benjamin Bratt As far as I know, you only get one shot at this life. It only goes round once and time is precious. When I'm not working, you'd better spend that time with someone important.
    Benjamin Bratt
    American actor, producer, and activist (1963 - )
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  • Albert Claude As far as I remember, even younger than eight, I have always been guided by reason. Not cold reason, but that which leads to the truth, to the real, and to sane Justice.
    Albert Claude
    Belgian-American cell biologist and doctor (1899 - 1983)
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  • William Goldman As far as the filmmaking process is concerned, stars are essentially worthless - and absolutely essential.
    William Goldman
    American novelist, playwright, and screenwriter (1931 - 2018)
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  • John F. Kennedy As far as the job of President goes, its rewarding and I've given before this group the definition of happiness for the Greeks. I'll define it again: the full use of your powers along lines of excellence. I find, therefore, that the Presidency provides some happiness.
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • Albert Einstein As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Bryce Dallas Howard As far as what is the line between human and machine? That's a great question.
    Bryce Dallas Howard
    American actress and filmmaker (1981 - )
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  • Lord Chesterfield As fathers commonly go, it is seldom a misfortune to be fatherless; and considering the general run of sons, as seldom a misfortune to be childless.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Jean de la Bruyère As favor and riches forsake a man, we discover in him the foolishness they concealed, and which no one perceived before.
    Jean de la Bruyère
    French writer (1645 - 1696)
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes and threats of heaven and sea, himself standing unmoved.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Henry Brooks Adams As for America, it is the ideal fruit of all your youthful hopes and reforms. Everybody is fairly decent, respectable, domestic, bourgeois, middle-class, and tiresome. There is absolutely nothing to revile except that it's a bore.
    Henry Brooks Adams
    American historian (1838 - 1918)
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  • Abraham Cowley As for being much known by sight, and pointed out, I cannot comprehend the honor that lies withal; whatsoever it be, every mountebank has it more than the best doctor.
    Abraham Cowley
    English poet (1618 - 1667)
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  • John Stuart Mill As for charity, it is a matter in which the immediate effect on the persons directly concerned, and the ultimate consequence to the general good, are apt to be at complete war with one another.
    John Stuart Mill
    English economist (1806 - 1873)
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  • Billy Dee Williams As for Colt 45, I am very proud of my endorsement of the product, and it still 'Works every time.'
    Billy Dee Williams
    American actor, voice actor, and artist (1937 - )
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  • Andre Norton As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
    Andre Norton
    American writer of science fiction (1912 - 2005)
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  • B. B. King As for my band, well, my mentors were Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman, Jimmie Lunceford, and no one had a band more smartly dressed than Duke.
    B. B. King
    American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and record producer (1925 - 2015)
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  • Seneca As for old age, embrace and love it. It abounds with pleasure if you know how to use it. The gradually declining years are among the sweetest in a man's life, and I maintain that, even when they have reached the extreme limit, they have their pleasure still.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Margaret Oliphant As for pictures and museums, that don't trouble me. The worst of going abroad is that you've always got to look at things of that sort. To have to do it at home would be beyond a joke.
    Margaret Oliphant
    British writer, historian (1828 - 1897)
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  • Britt Ekland As for the stage fright, it never goes away. When I'm waiting in the wings to go on, it's agony every single time but I stay focused and I know that once I'm on stage it'll be fine; I'll be in my happy little bubble.
    Britt Ekland
    Swedish actress and singer (1942 - )
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  • Carl Hiaasen As frightening as this may sound, what you see in the books is the way I see the world. And so far I haven't seen anything, either in Florida or elsewhere, to dissuade me from it.
    Carl Hiaasen
    American writer, author and journalist (1953 - )
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