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  • Sir Peter Medawar If politics is the art of the possible, research is surely the art of the soluble. Both are immensely practical-minded affairs.
    Sir Peter Medawar
    British biologist and immunologist (1915 - 1987)
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  • Luis Bunuel If someone were to prove to me - right this minute - that God, in all his luminousness, exists, it wouldn't change a single aspect of my behavior.
    Luis Bunuel
    Spanish director (1900 - 1983)
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  • B. B. King If T-Bone Walker had been a woman, I would have asked him to marry me. I'd never heard anything like that before: single-string blues played on an electric guitar.
    B. B. King
    American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and record producer (1925 - 2015)
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  • Bernie Sanders If the goal of health-care reform is to provide comprehensive, universal health care in a cost-effective way, the only honest approach is a single-payer approach.
    Bernie Sanders
    American politician (1941 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson If the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Salvatore Satta If we really think about it, God exists for any single individual who puts his trust in Him, not for the whole of humanity, with its laws, its organizations, and its violence. Humanity is the demon which God does not succeed in destroying.
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  • Bridget Moynahan If you go from a structure where you have the support and that partner and that construction of a family and that's broken apart, I think that's probably a lot harder than always being a single mom and having the father being a support in another area.
    Bridget Moynahan
    American actress and model (1971 - )
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  • Bruce Barton If you have anything really valuable to contribute to the world it will come through the expression of your own personality, that single spark of divinity that sets you off and makes you different from every other living creature.
    Its a Good Old World: Being a Collection of Little Essays on Various Subjects of Human Interest (1920)
    Bruce Barton
    American Author, Advertising Executive (1886 - 1967)
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  • Bradley Cooper If you're a single man and you happen to be in this business, you're deemed a player. But I don't see myself as a ladies' man.
    Bradley Cooper
    American actor and filmmaker (1975 - )
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  • Bee Wilson In 2009, it was forecast that the number of single-person households would increase by two million in 10 years, suggesting that social isolation will only get worse.
    Bee Wilson
    British food writer, journalist and historian
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  • Bob Barr In a single generation, the Internet has given to virtually every person on the face of the earth the ability to communicate with fellow human beings on virtually any topic, at any time, and in every nook and cranny on the globe. This magnificent invention has done this without succumbing to government control.
    Bob Barr
    American attorney and politician (1948 - )
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  • Ban Kimoon In a world of plenty, no one, not a single person, should go hungry. But almost 1 billion still do not have enough to eat. I want to see an end to hunger everywhere within my lifetime.
    Ban Kimoon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Bernard Crick In an abstract but real sense, Marxism arose through the breakdown first of religion and then of 'reason' as single sources of authority.
    In Defence Of Politics Ch. 5, A Defence Of Politics Against Technology, p
    Bernard Crick
    British political theorist (1929 - 2008)
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  • Aldo Leopold In June as many as a dozen species may burst their buds on a single day. No man can heed all of these anniversaries; no man can ignore all of them.
    Aldo Leopold
    American author, philosopher, naturalist and conservationist, (1887 - 1948)
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  • Carl Sagan In Mozambique, the story goes, monkeys do not talk, because they know if they utter even a single word some man will come and put them to work.
    Contact (1985) Ch. 18 (p. 313)
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Bill Paxton In our game, it's your vanity that keeps you in shape. I've got a little gym set up, and I ride a single-speed bike up the hills behind my house. Lately I've been kind of a slacker. Usually it's a film role that makes me start getting in shape. Between roles, I try to do a little maintenance, but I'm not a workout fanatic at all.
    Bill Paxton
    American actor and director (1955 - 2017)
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  • Bill McKibben In reality, climate change is actually the biggest thing that's going on every single day.
    Bill McKibben
    American environmentalist, author, and journalist (1960 - )
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  • Abraham Kuyper In the total expanse of human life there is not a single square inch of which the Christ, who alone is sovereign, does not declare, 'That is mine!'.
    Abraham Kuyper
    Dutch politician and theologian (1837 - 1920)
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  • Carl von Clausewitz In war, the advantages and disadvantages of a single action could only be determined by the final balance.
    On War (1832)
    Carl von Clausewitz
    Prussian general and military theorist (1780 - 1831)
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  • Maximilien Robespierre Is it to be thought unreasonable that the people, in atonement for wrongs of a century, demand the vengeance of a single day?
    Maximilien Robespierre
    French lawyer and statesman (1758 - 1794)
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