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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne From Obedience and submission comes all our virtues, and all sin is comes from self-opinion.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • James Thurber From one casual of mine he picked this sentence. ''After dinner, the men moved into the living room.'' I explained to the professor that this was Rose' way of giving the men time to push back their chairs and stand up. There must, as we know, be a comma after every move, made by men, on this earth.
    James Thurber
    American cartoonist (1894 - 1961)
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  • Hilaire Belloc From quiet homes and first beginning, out to the undiscovered ends, there's nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.
    Hilaire Belloc
    British Author (1870 - 1953)
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  • Calvin Harris From the age of 14 to about 20, I bombarded record companies and DJs with my demos. I was desperate to get it out there. Most of the time, I got nothing back.
    Calvin Harris
    Scottish DJ, record producer, singer, and songwriter (1984 - )
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  • John Henry Newman From the age of fifteen, dogma has been the fundamental principle of my religion: I know no other religion; I cannot enter into the idea of any other sort of religion; religion, as a mere sentiment, is to me a dream and a mockery.
    John Henry Newman
    English theologian (1801 - 1890)
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  • Bill Mumy From the age of four, I was a huge comic fan and still am. When Lost in Space came along it was like being in a huge comic so we jumped at the chance of being part of that project and it proved to be a good choice.
    Bill Mumy
    American actor and musician (1954 - )
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  • Ban Ki-moon From the beginning of my time as Secretary-General, I have sought to advance a practical, action-oriented vision of the U.N. as the voice of the voiceless and the defender of the defenceless.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Bille August From the beginning, we were prepared, we know how we would shoot and cut the two versions.
    Bille August
    Danish director, screenwriter, and cinematographer (1948 - )
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  • Bill Flores From the depths of the Pacific to the deserts of Iraq, more than a million American soldiers, Airmen, midshipmen, and Marines have laid down their lives for their friends, their families and our nation.
    Bill Flores
    American businessman and politician (1954 - )
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  • Bayard Taylor From the desert I come to thee, On a stallion shod with fire; And the winds are left behind In the speed of my desire.
    Bayard Taylor
    American poet, travel author, and diplomat (1825 - 1878)
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  • William Somerset Maugham From the earliest times the old have rubbed it into the young that they are wiser than they, and before the young had discovered what nonsense this was they were old too, and it profited them to carry on the imposture.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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  • Alice Hamilton From the first I became convinced that what I must look for was lead dust and lead fumes, that men were poisoned by breathing poisoned air, not by handling their food with unwashed hands.
    Alice Hamilton
    American physician, research scientist, and author (1869 - 1970)
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  • Brendon Urie From the first time I heard Bob Marley or even Sublime, I wanted to move out to California and be near the ocean, start surfing, start being a part of that whole thing.
    Brendon Urie
    American singer, songwriter, and musician (1987 - )
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  • Margot Asquith From the happy expression on their faces you might have supposed that they welcomed the war. I have met with men who loved stamps, and stones, and snakes, but I could not imagine any man loving war.
    Margot Asquith
    Anglo-Scottish socialite, author, and wit (1864 - 1945)
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  • Carl Safina From the happy-go-lucky days of oil exploration and drilling, when a lot of easy sources were being found and easily managed, we're gotten ourselves into this sort of apocalyptic time. We're willing to destroy almost everything, risk almost anything, and go ahead with techniques for which we have no way of responding to the known problems.
    Carl Safina
    American ecologist and author (1955 - )
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  • Carol Loomis From the minute I got to 'Fortune,' I loved my job. I knew myself to be a virtual dunce about business, and I was wide-eyed about how much I was learning.
    Carol Loomis
    American financial journalist (1929 - )
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  • Bette Davis From the moment I was six I felt sexy. And let me tell you it was hell, sheer hell, waiting to do something about it.
    Bette Davis
    American Actress, Producer (1908 - 1989)
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  • Karl Marx From the outset, the Christian was the theorizing Jew, the Jew is therefore the practical Christian, and the practical Christian has become a Jew again.
    Karl Marx
    German economist and state philosopher (1818 - 1883)
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  • Barbara Ehrenreich From the point of view of the pharmaceutical industry, the AIDS problem has already been solved. After all, we already have a drug which can be sold at the incredible price of $8, 000 an annual dose, and which has the added virtue of not diminishing the market by actually curing anyone.
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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  • Brantley Gilbert From the R&B side, I've always been a huge Brian McKnight fan. He's just as talented as it gets vocally, and as a musician. I think it'd be real cool to do something with him.
    Brantley Gilbert
    American country music singer, songwriter (1985 - )
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