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  • Franz Kafka Anyone who cannot come to terms with his life while he is alive needs one hand to ward off a little his despair over his fate... but with his other hand he can note down what he sees among the ruins.
    Franz Kafka
    Chech German-speaking writer (1883 - 1924)
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  • Carl Sagan Anything you don't understand, Mr. Rankin, you attribute to God. God for you is where you sweep away all the mysteries of the world, all the challenges to our intelligence. You simply turn your mind off and say God did it.
    Source: Contact (1985) Ch. 10 (p. 166)
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Albert Ellis As a result of my philosophy, I wasn't even upset about Hitler. I was willing to go to war to knock him off, but I didn't hate him. I hated what he was doing.
    Albert Ellis
    American psychologist (1913 - 2007)
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  • Byron Howard As animation directors, you're the first one on the film; you're the last one off, and you get to learn from and touch every department throughout the whole journey. I don't know any other job in the world that's like that. I don't think live-action is like that. It's a very different sort of experience.
    Byron Howard
    American film director and producer (1968 - )
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  • Thomas à Kempis As iron put into the fire loseth its rust and becometh clearly red-hot, so he that wholly turneth himself unto God puts off all slothfulness, and is transformed into a new man.
    Thomas à Kempis
    Dutch medieval Augustinian canon, writer and mystic (1380 - 1471)
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  • Desiderius Erasmus Ask a wise man to dinner and he'll upset everyone by his gloomy silence or tiresome questions. Invite him to a dance and you'll have a camel prancing about. Haul him off to a public entertainment and his face will be enough to spoil the people's entertainment.
    Desiderius Erasmus
    Dutch humanist and philosopher (1469 - 1536)
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  • Biz Stone Balancing family and work is a top priority for me, and I treat it as such. Meaning, I actually put specific family time and events in my calendar so that precious time is dedicated and properly blocked off from any work that may try to sneak its way into my schedule.
    Biz Stone
    American entrepreneur (1974 - )
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  • Bob Beauprez Barack Obama likes to point to General Motors as the poster child for the job creation success of his economic policies. However, whatever your sentiments about the government's bailout of General Motors, for every job Barack Obama 'saved-or-created' in the U.S. there were two jobs off shore.
    Bob Beauprez
    American politician and member (1948 - )
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  • Bill Veeck Baseball is almost the only orderly thing in a very unorderly world. If you get three strikes, even the best lawyer in the world can't get you off.
    Bill Veeck
    American Major League Baseball franchise owner and promoter (1914 - )
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  • Alan Alda Begin challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in awhile, or the light won't come in.
    Alan Alda
    American actor, director, screenwriter, and author. (1936 - )
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  • Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn Blow the dust off the clock. Your watches are behind the times. Throw open the heavy curtains which are so dear to you - you do not even suspect that the day has already dawned outside.
    Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn
    Russian Novelist (1918 - 2008)
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  • Billy Joe Saunders Boxing has kept me off the streets, stops me smoking and drinking and gives me something to do.
    Billy Joe Saunders
    English professional boxer (1989 - )
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  • Antoine Fuqua Bruce Willis. Pain in my ass, no problem about that. We just didn't get along. We got along off camera, but shooting we just didn't get along.
    Antoine Fuqua
    American film director and producer (1966 - )
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  • Alan Watts But I'll tell you what hermits realize. If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet, you'll come to understand that you're connected with everything.
    Alan Watts
    English philosopher, priest and writer (1915 - 1973)
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  • Armistead Maupin But it's amazing how many people think that gay men should slink off into the shadows when it comes to having friendships with children.
    Armistead Maupin
    American writer (1944 - )
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  • Henry Louis Mencken But that is a rare, rare man, I venture, who is as steadily intelligent, as constantly sound in judgment, as little put off by appearances, as the average women of forty-eight.
    Source: In Defense of Women (1918)
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Arthur Henderson But to cut off relations with an aggressor may often invite retaliation by armed action, and this would, in its turn, make necessary some form of collective self-defence by the loyal members of the League.
    Arthur Henderson
    British Labour politician
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  • Lord George Byron But what is Hope? Nothing but the paint on the face of Existence; the least touch of truth rubs it off, and then we see what a hollow-cheeked harlot we have got hold of.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Bo Bice But whatever the Lord throws at me right now, I think I've been given more blessings than I ever deserved. If he wants to top it off with anything - boy, girl - I would love either of them.
    Bo Bice
    American singer and musician (1975 - )
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  • Candice Bergen But when I disappeared, it sort of pissed me off, that guys get to go on being sexual until they're seventy or eighty, and we disappear at forty-five or fifty.
    Candice Bergen
    American actress (1946 - )
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