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  • Elizabeth Gaskell To be sure a stepmother to a girl is a different thing to a second wife to a man!
    Elizabeth Gaskell
    British writer (1810 - 1865)
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  • Henri Cartier-Bresson To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event.
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  • Jose Ortega Y Gasset To rule is not so much a question of the heavy hand as the firm seat.
    Jose Ortega Y Gasset
    Spanish writer and philosopher (1883 - 1955)
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  • William Blake To see a World in a Grain of Sand
    And a Heaven in a Wild Flower
    Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
    And Eternity in an hour.
    Auguries of Innocence
    William Blake
    English poet (1757 - 1827)
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  • Ben Hecht Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock.
    Ben Hecht
    American writer, playwright (1894 - 1964)
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  • Billy Bennett Twas the fifteenth anniversary of her twenty-second year,
    So he smiled at her as sweetly as a hog
    And asked what present she would like. And jestingly she said:
    Your green tie for my little yellow dog.
    The Green Tie on the Little Yellow Dog line 13
    Billy Bennett
    British comedian
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  • Carl von Clausewitz Two qualities are indispensable: first, an intellect that, even in the darkest hour, retains some glimmerings of the inner light which leads to truth; and second, the courage to follow this faint light wherever it may lead.
    Carl von Clausewitz
    Prussian general and military theorist (1780 - 1831)
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  • Bernie Sanders Two-thirds of the directors at the New York Fed are hand-picked by the same bankers that the Fed is in charge of regulating.
    Bernie Sanders
    American politician (1941 - )
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  • Burgess Owens Unfortunately, I have been a little disappointed that we have issues out there like traditional marriage, abortion, school education, and we have so much silence from the black community, from black preachers, because they understand first hand the impact of all that.
    Burgess Owens
    American football player (1951 - )
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  • Marcia Wieder Use your precious moments to live life fully every single second of every single day.
    Marcia Wieder
    CEO and Founder of Dream University
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  • Dave Barry We Americans live in a nation where the medical-care system is second to none in the world, unless you count maybe 25 or 30 little scuzzball countries like Scotland that we could vaporize in seconds if we felt like it.
    Dave Barry
    American humorist, writer
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  • Marcel Proust We are able to find everything in our memory, which is like a dispensary or chemical laboratory in which chance steers our hand sometimes to a soothing drug and sometimes to a dangerous poison.
    Marcel Proust
    French writer and critic (1871 - 1922)
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  • Eduardo Galeano We are all mortal until the first kiss and the second glass of wine.
    Eduardo Galeano
    Uruguayan journalist and writer (1940 - 2015)
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  • Thomas Wolfe We are always acting on what has just finished happening. It happened at least 1/30th of a second ago. We think we're in the present, but we aren't. The present we know is only a movie of the past.
    Thomas Wolfe
    American writer and journalist (1900 - 1938)
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  • Bert McCracken We definitely didn't want it to be anything like our first or second records. We wanted to experiment more than we ever had and take any new idea and run with it as far as we could.
    Bert McCracken
    American singer (1982 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson We do not quite forgive a giver. The hand that feeds us is in some danger of being bitten.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Ariel Sharon We extend our hand towards peace. Our people are committed to peace. We know that peace entails painful compromise for both sides.
    Ariel Sharon
    Israeli general and politician (1928 - 2014)
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  • George Eliot We hand folks over to God's mercy, and show none ourselves.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Dora Russell We have never yet had a labor Government that knew what taking power really means; they always act like second-class citizens.
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  • Barbara Boxer We know no document is perfect, but when we amend the Constitution, it would be to expand rights, not to take away rights from decent, loyal Americans. This great Constitution of ours should never be used to make a group of Americans permanent second-class citizens.
    Barbara Boxer
    American politician (1940 - )
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