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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld True eloquence consists in saying all that should be said, and that only.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Confucius Tsze-Kung asked, saying, is there one word which may serve as a rule of practice for all one's life?'' The Master said, ''Is not Reciprocity such a word? What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.
    Confucius
    Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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  • Walter Lippmann Unless democracy is to commit suicide by consenting to its own destruction, it will have to find some formidable answer to those who come to it saying: ''I demand from you in the name of your principles the rights which I shall deny to you later in the name of my principles.''
    Walter Lippmann
    American writer, reporter, and political commentator (1889 - 1974)
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  • Marlene Dietrich Until they come to see us from their planet, I wait patiently. I hear them saying: Don't call us, we'll call you.
    Marlene Dietrich
    German-born American Film Actor (1901 - 1992)
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  • Bryce Dallas Howard Using the word 'bossy' for girls can be quite harmful. What is that saying - that being focused, being assertive, being the boss has a negative attribute? And I have heard that term associated more with women than with men. 'He's so bossy' - you don't hear that. It's a very subtle thing.
    Bryce Dallas Howard
    American actress and filmmaker (1981 - )
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  • Virginia Woolf We all indulge in the strange, pleasant process called thinking, but when it comes to saying, even to someone opposite, what we think, then how little we are able to convey! The phantom is through the mind and out of the window before we can lay salt on
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Buddy Wakefield We are the fed up grass roots movement of goose flesh, hell bent on living this one life by the way we feel our spines, saying what we mean, refusing to allow the few to preach to the many when it is the many who need to be hearing eachother.
    On Spoken Word Introduction (Some They Cant Contain)
    Buddy Wakefield
    American poet and actor (1974 - )
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  • Bart Stupak We believe the Senate language provides for federal subsidies for abortions. Plus there's a language in there where you have to pay one dollar per month, every enrollee, to pay for a fund for reproductive rights which include abortion. And that's totally against federal law. So we are saying take that out.
    Bart Stupak
    American politician (1952 - )
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  • Jose Ortega Y Gasset We distinguish the excellent man from the common man by saying that the former is the one who makes great demands on himself, and the latter who makes no demands on himself.
    Jose Ortega Y Gasset
    Spanish writer and philosopher (1883 - 1955)
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  • Brit Hume We get a ton of email; everybody does now. It gives us a kind of a pulse that you can feel.We hear people saying, thank you for being fair, for being balanced.
    Brit Hume
    American journalist and political commentator (1943 - )
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  • Bruce Babbitt We had kind of a rocky start, but I spent a lot of time working with the President and handing him statistics and showing him what we were doing as we went along and kind of saying to him, you know, this is really important.
    Bruce Babbitt
    American attorney and politician (1938 - )
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  • Sydney Justin Harris We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until we move from the passive voice to the active voice - that is, until we have stopped saying ''It got lost,'' and say, ''I lost it.''
    Sydney Justin Harris
    American journalist (1917 - 1986)
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  • Blake Farenthold We have testimony saying, and I think common sense also dictates, that in a failed state like Syria, you don't have any government information, police reports to rely on to vet somebody. So there's no way to do a background check from somebody coming out of Syria. There's no way we can find out whether they're safe or not.
    Blake Farenthold
    American politician and lobbyist (1961 - )
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  • Arthur Christiansen We never waste space saying, "On the one hand." We just state an opinion in a Godlike voice.
    Arthur Christiansen
    British journalist, and editor (1904 - 1963)
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  • Barbara Mandrell We're only here to love God and each other. I'm not saying I've never gotten angry at anyone. I do. But you've got to forgive and move on.
    Barbara Mandrell
    American country music singer, musician, and actress (1948 - )
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  • Angela Merkel We're saying this to both countries: We want a two-state solution. We want a Jewish state of Israel and alongside a independent Palestinian state. Unilateral measures are not helping at all to bring about this cause, and we agree that we wish to cooperate very closely on this, because as we both say, time is of the essence.
    Angela Merkel
    German politician and chancellor (1954 - )
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  • Anita Hill Well, of course it was a very trying time for me, and fortunately I had a lot of people who were supportive. A lot of people who were writing and calling and saying they were praying for me. Some people sent me Scripture, and that helped.
    Anita Hill
    American lawyer and academic (1956 - )
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  • B. B. King What don't I want to learn? I have how-to books, history, nature. Ain't nobody here saying, 'You'd better learn this.' But I still think I've got a head on my shoulders, and it pleases me.
    B. B. King
    American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and record producer (1925 - 2015)
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  • Anthony Weiner What I am saying is, all health care has a problem with costs. Medicare is growing slower than the private insurance plans. Why? Because of their efficiency. They don't have to give money to shareholders. Why should be defending shareholders?
    Anthony Weiner
    American politician (1964 - )
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  • Arthur Laffer What I'm not saying is that all government spending is bad. It's not - far, far from it, but there is no free lunch, as a former colleague of mine used to say. There is no public tooth fairy. Father Christmas does not work on the Treasury staff this year. You can never bail someone out of trouble without putting someone else into trouble.
    Arthur Laffer
    American economist and author (1940 - )
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