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  • James Baldwin After my best friend jumped off the bridge, I knew that I was next. So-Paris. With forty dollars and a one-way ticket.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Barbara Deming After the revolution, it might very well remain necessary to place people where they could not do harm to others. But the one under restraint should be cut off from the rest of society as little as possible.
    Barbara Deming
    American feminist and advocate (0 - 1984)
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  • Bertrand Russell Against my will, in the course of my travels, the belief that everything worth knowing was known at Cambridge gradually wore off. In this respect my travels were very useful to me.
    Source: The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Raymond Chandler Alcohol is like love. The first kiss is magic, the second is intimate, the third is routine. After that you take the girl's clothes off.
    Raymond Chandler
    American writer (1888 - 1959)
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  • Casey Stengel All blame is a waste of time. No matter how much fault you find with another, and regardless of how much you blame him, it will not change you. The only thing blame does is to keep the focus off you when you are looking for... reasons to explain your unhappiness or frustration.
    Casey Stengel
    American basketbal player and manager (1890 - 1975)
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  • Franz Kafka All human errors are impatience, a premature breaking off of methodical procedure, an apparent fencing-in of what is apparently at issue.
    Franz Kafka
    Chech German-speaking writer (1883 - 1924)
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  • Bel Powley All my friends were off on gap years, so going to New York alone, at the age of 18, was kind of my flying the nest. It was an amazing experience.
    Bel Powley
    English actress (1992 - )
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  • Sebastian Coe All pressure is self-inflicted. It's what you make of it or how you let it rub off on you.
    Sebastian Coe
     
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  • Bradley Joseph All the information you need is available to you to have a successful career in music, if you're paying attention, and not closed off to anything. Remember, Perseverance is King.
    Source: On running a label Indie Journal Interview
    Bradley Joseph
    American composer and producer
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  • George Orwell All the papers that matter live off their advertisements, and the advertisers exercise an indirect censorship over news.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Bonnie Bassler All these bacteria that coat our skin and live in our intestines, they fend off bad bacteria. They protect us. And you can't even digest your food without the bacteria that are in your gut. They have enzymes and proteins that allow you to metabolize foods you eat.
    Bonnie Bassler
    American molecular biologist
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  • Buddy Wakefield All these kids you can't seem to make any sense of would stop holding you so far off the edge of your seats if you'd start holding yourselves to the promises you make. We know you're not perfect because we're not. And I know I ain't perfect. But I believe I was meant to be.
    Source: Poetry Older People
    Buddy Wakefield
    American poet and actor (1974 - )
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  • Caroline Leavitt All writers know how important a good title is. It's the first thing readers see, along with a knock-your-socks-off cover - a seductive 'come hither' for the story within.
    Caroline Leavitt
    American novelist
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  • Marquis de Sade All, all is theft, all is unceasing and rigorous competition in nature; the desire to make off with the substance of others is the foremost - the most legitimate - passion nature has bred into us and, without doubt, the most agreeable one.
    Marquis de Sade
    French aristocrat, writer, politician and philosopher (1740 - 1814)
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  • Ben Jonson Ambition, like a torrent, ne'er looks back;
    And is a swelling, and the last affection
    A high mind can put off; being both a rebel
    Unto the soul and reason, and enforceth
    All laws, all conscience, treads upon religion,
    and offereth violence to nature's self.
    Source: Catiline His Conspiracy
    Ben Jonson
    British Dramatist, Poet (1572 - 1637)
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  • Ben Stein Americans are terrified because so many of them have been laid off in recent years and months and they fear that they may be next. Even if they have not been laid off or have not known anyone laid off, they definitely know someone who has lost his home.
    Ben Stein
    American professor, writer
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  • Bruce Catton And there is the headlight, shining far down the track, glinting off the steel rails that, like all parallel lines, will meet in infinity, which is after all where this train is going.
    Source: Bruce Cattons America: selections from his greatest works
    Bruce Catton
    American historian and journalist (1899 - 1978)
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  • Abraham Lincoln Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Bipasha Basu Any relationship should have love, and if there is no love, it is better to call off a relationship. People say that love happens only once, but I don't believe in it because for me, if one relationship doesn't work, you should move on and seek love in another relationship. Who knows; you might find love in the second relationship.
    Bipasha Basu
    Indian film actress and model (1979 - )
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  • Bobby Jindal Anybody who spends time off of Louisiana's shores can recognize that these oysters are not endangered. To classify them as such risks great harm to not only fishermen who make their living collecting oysters in the Gulf, but also to Louisiana's economy in total.
    Bobby Jindal
    American politician (1971 - )
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