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  • Bill Dedman In New York, FEMA granted the Mamaroneck Beach & Yacht Club's request to be remapped from the high-risk flood zone in August 2012 - just two months before the club was damaged and its outbuildings destroyed by Hurricane Sandy, which stacked up yachts at its docks like pick-up sticks.
    Bill Dedman
    American journalist (1960 - )
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  • Dan Cruickshank In short, the building becomes a theatrical demonstration of its functional ideal. In this romanticism, high-tech architecture is, of course, no different in spirit - if totally different in form - from all the romantic architecture of the past.
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  • Billy Corgan In the beginning, though, I have to admit that I did have a chip on my shoulder. I did want to prove everyone wrong. But after I went through the process and came out the other side, it wasn't about anyone else.
    Billy Corgan
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1967 - )
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  • Blake McIver Ewing In the male homosexual community, we love to label and categorize and organize each other as if we are in a never-ending high school biology class.
    Blake McIver Ewing
    American singer-songwriter, actor and pianist (1985 - )
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  • Brad Feld In the mid-to-late 1990s, I was an entrepreneur-in-residence at the Kauffman Foundation working with Jana Matthews on 'learning programs for high growth entrepreneurs.'
    Brad Feld
    American entrepreneur, and author
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  • Benjamin Watson In the same way that I cannot be perfect and need grace for my mistakes, I also need to give my kids grace. I am constantly learning to be patient with them, understanding that they won't do everything right all the time, while still holding them to a high standard, as their heavenly father does.
    Benjamin Watson
    American football player (1980 - )
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  • Douglas Adams In those days spirits were brave, the stakes were high, men were real men, women were real women and small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri were real small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri.
    Douglas Adams
    British science-fiction writer (1952 - 2001)
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  • Bell Hooks Indeed much of the literature written about black folks in the post-civil rights era emphasized the need for jobs. Material advancement was deemed the pressing agenda. Mental health concerns were not a high priority. - From (2003) Rock My Soul
    Bell Hooks
    American author, professor, feminist (born G.J.Watkins) (1952 - 2021)
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  • Baba Kalyani India is still considered a preferred destination for many multinationals to manufacture cost-competitive high-technology products for domestic consumption as well as for global demand.
    Baba Kalyani
    Indian businessman (1949 - )
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  • Robert Hewison Individually, museums are fine institutions, dedicated to the high values of preservation, education and truth; collectively, their growth in numbers points to the imaginative death of this country.
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  • Bradley Whitford Infuse your life with action. Don't wait for it to happen. Make it happen. Make your own future. Make your own hope. Make your own love. And whatever your beliefs, honor your creator, not by passively waiting for grace to come down from upon high, but by doing what you can to make grace happen... yourself, right now, right down here on Earth.
    Bradley Whitford
    American actor and political activist (1959 - )
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  • Olin Miller Inheritance taxes are so high that the happiest mourner at a rich man's funeral is usually Uncle Sam.
    Olin Miller
    American businessman
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  • Margaret Mead Instead of needing lots of children, we need high-quality children.
    Margaret Mead
    American cultural anthropologist (1901 - 1978)
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  • Charles Simmons Integrity is the first step to true greatness. Men love to praise, but are slow to practice it. To maintain it in high places costs self-denial; in all places it is liable to opposition, but its end is glorious, and the universe will yet do it homage.
    Charles Simmons
    American editor and novelist (1798 - 1856)
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  • Bahman Ghobadi It feels very, very good to make a film freely, to work without having to wait years for script approval, without looking over your shoulder.
    Bahman Ghobadi
    Iranian-Kurdish film director, producer and writer (1969 - )
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  • Ben Casnocha It got a little stressful in my first two years of high school, trying to make conference calls with investors in between classes, but I definitely learned a lot of important time-management lessons.
    Ben Casnocha
    American author, entrepreneur, and investor (1988 - )
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  • Angela Merkel It is a fact that, if I single out Germany, our rate of growth is too low and we have very high unemployment.
    Angela Merkel
    German politician and chancellor (1954 - )
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  • Bainbridge Colby It is a high patriotic duty that we support and sustain the men who have been placed in position of difficulty, burden, responsibility, and even danger as the result of our suffrages.
    Bainbridge Colby
    American politician and attorney (1869 - 1950)
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  • Franklin D. Roosevelt It is a terrible thing to look over your shoulder when you are trying to lead - and find no one there.
    Franklin D. Roosevelt
    American statesman (1882 - 1945)
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  • Albert Einstein It is a very high goal which, with our weak powers, we can reach only very inadequately, but which gives a sure foundation to our aspirations and valuations.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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