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  • Thomas Paine All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.
    Thomas Paine
    English-born American political activist, philosopher, political theor (1737 - 1809)
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  • Bella Heathcote All on-set kisses are weird, no matter who it is, especially with people standing around coughing and sneezing. It's very uncomfortable!
    Bella Heathcote
    Australian actress (1987 - )
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  • Andre Norton Always the cat remains a little beyond the limits we try to set for him in our blind folly.
    Andre Norton
    American writer of science fiction (1912 - 2005)
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  • William S. Burroughs America is not so much a nightmare as a non-dream. The American non-dream is precisely a move to wipe the dream out of existence. The dream is a spontaneous happening and therefore dangerous to a control system set up by the non-dreamers.
    William S. Burroughs
    American writer and artist (1914 - 1997)
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  • Billie Burke An actress who has the gift of swaying the emotions of an audience, of compelling tribute of tears, or of moving the public to joyous merriment, cannot always be satisfied to set aside her whole career, in the work that she loves, simply because she is married.
    Billie Burke
    American actress (1884 - 1970)
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  • Sigmund Freud Analysis does not set out to make pathological reactions impossible, but to give the patient's ego freedom to decide one way or another.
    Sigmund Freud
    Austrian psychiatrist (1856 - 1939)
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  • Berenice Marlohe And Shanghai is amazing. I'm a fan of science fiction so when you're there in the night with all the lights and all this modernity, it's like a set in a movie.
    Berenice Marlohe
    French actress
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  • Barry Humphries And so I set these things down before the onset of the first of a thousand small physical degradations as, in a still-distant suburb, Death strides whistling towards me.
    My Life as Me: A Memoir
    Barry Humphries
    Australian comedian, actor, artist, and author (1934 - 2023)
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  • Klemens Von Metternich Any plan conceived in moderation must fail when the circumstances are set in extremes.
    Klemens Von Metternich
    Austrian diplomat and statesman (1773 - 1859)
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  • Bob Uecker Any teammate of mine that had a kid and a boy that was capable of playing baseball, I think I set a terrific example of 'Don't do this' and 'Don't do that.' And that's one of the things that I'm most proud of.
    Bob Uecker
    American Major League Baseball (MLB) player (1934 - )
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  • Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Are wars... anything but the means whereby a nation's problems are set, where creation is stimulated - there you have adventure. But there is no adventure in heads-or-tails, in betting that the toss will come out of life or death. War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    French writer (1900 - 1944)
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  • Barbara Ehrenreich As anyone knows who has ever had to set up a military encampment or build a village from the ground up, occupations pose staggering logistical problems.
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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  • Billy Collins Attempts to put my poems to music have had disastrous results in all cases. And the poem, if it's written with the ear, already has been set to its own verbal music as it was composed.
    Billy Collins
    American poet (1941 - )
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  • James Baldwin Be careful what you set your heart upon - for it will surely be yours.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Francis Bacon Be not penny-wise. Riches have wings. Sometimes they fly away of themselves, and sometimes they must be set flying to bring in more.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Candice Bergen Beauty set up distance between other people and me. It warped their behavior.
    Candice Bergen
    American actress (1946 - )
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  • Buzz Aldrin Before deciding what to do about national space policy, Obama set up an outside review panel of space experts, headed up by my friend Norm Augustine, former head of Lockheed Martin and a former government official.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Beware what you set your heart upon. For it shall surely be yours.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • August Wilson Blacks have traditionally had to operate in a situation where whites have set themselves up as the custodians of the black experience.
    August Wilson
    American playwright (1945 - 2005)
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  • Berkeley Breathed Bloom County was set in a tidy, rural environment probably because of Harper Lee's 'To Kill a Mockingbird.'
    Berkeley Breathed
    American cartoonist, director and screenwriter (1957 - )
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